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Tata Steel is building a massive new blast furnace in India while closing down Port Talbot's
Tata announced on Friday, September 20 that the company had successfully commissioned India’s largest blast furnace at Kalinganagar in Odisha.
Tata Steel: What happens next for the Port Talbot plant?
Tata Steel says when the electric arc furnace is up and running, it "will reduce the UK’s entire industrial carbon emissions by 8%". Once it is up and running, Port Talbot's electric arc furnace will produce steel in a way never seen before in the town's more than 120 years of steelmaking.
Public consultation on Tata plans for £1.25bn electric arc furnace at Port Talbot
Subject to planning consent work on the arc furnace will start next summer and become operational in late 2027
Tata Steel UK Launches Next Phase of Consultation on Proposed Electric Arc Furnace at Port Talbot Steelworks
Tata Steel UK has launched the next consultation phase on its proposal to build an Electric Arc Furnace at its Port Talbot steelworks. The pre-application
Tata Steel signs £500 million deal with UK government for Port Talbot
The UK government has awarded Tata Steel Ltd a £500 million grant for its green steel project in Port Talbot. This investment will help reduce emissions, replace outdated blast furnaces, and foster economic growth and job creation in South Wales.
UK to provide £500 million for Tata’s Port Talbot steel plant
THE UK government is set to confirm a £500 million (S$851.5 million) support package for Tata Steel’s plant in Port Talbot, one of the first major tests of the Labour Party’s industrial policy. Read more at The Business Times.
UK clears decks for £500 mn grant for Tata Steel's Port Talbot project
The Labour government in the UK has cleared the decks for a £500 million grant to Tata Steel, paving the way for decarbonisation of the company's British business and a sustainable financial future. In a statement,
Tata Steel commissions India’s largest blast furnace in Kalinganagar, Odisha
Tata Steel announced that it has commissioned India’s largest blast furnace in Kalinganagar, Odisha, with a total investment of Rs 27,000 crore. It added that the Phase II expansion at Kalinganagar will take the total capacity at the site from 3 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) to 8 MTPA.
India’s largest blast furnace with Rs 27k cr investment by Tata Steel in THIS state
The new blast furnace, with a volume of 5,870 m3, is equipped with state-of-the-art features for long campaign life and an eco-friendly design to optimise the steelmaking process. The blast furnace will also have a zero-process water discharge plan with rainwater harvesting.
4,000 jobs to go in Port Talbot steel deal
The closure of the blast furnaces at Britain's biggest steelworks will lead to far more job losses than thought.
Why the UK government’s £500 million investment in Port Talbot is not enough to secure the British steel industry
But it will still be a significant challenge to build a recycling system to provide the necessary scrap steel. The UK ...
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Port Talbot: Labour’s deal for steel workers explained as 2,500 job losses announced
Port Talbot workers had planned a strike in July, but called it off when Tata said it would force the steelworks to close earlier than expected. Steel production in the UK has been declining ...
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UK Government and Tata Steel forge new deal to support Port Talbot workforce as part of low-carbon shift
UK boosts redundancy payments and training for Tata Steel Port Talbot workers as part of £1.25bn investment to reduce ...
UK gets better redundancy terms for 2,500 workers as it recommits to Tata Steel deal
Britain has secured improved terms for 2,500 steel workers set to lose their jobs, the government said on Wednesday, as it ...