British Steel and FN Steel to exhibit in Dusseldorf
British Steel and sister company FN Steel are set to promote their comprehensive product and service portfolio at the upcoming Wire 2024 exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany. The 2024 event will welcome around 38,000 visitors from the wire and cable industry spanning...
Shadow Minister Sarah Jones MP visits British Steel
We were today pleased to welcome Sarah Jones MP, Shadow Minister for Industry and Decarbonisation, to our Scunthorpe site. Shadow Minister Jones discussed our decarbonisation plans with our leadership team and toured our Scunthorpe site. Our owners, Jingye, have already invested £330-million in...
Business Minister Nusrat Ghani MP visits British Steel
Today we were pleased to welcome Nusrat Ghani MP, Minister of State at the Department for Business and Trade, to British Steel. During her visit, Minister Ghani met with our leadership team to discuss our decarbonisation plans and toured our Scunthorpe site. While...
'Green’ loco’s platform to perform
An ‘environmentally friendly’ 90-tonne, hybrid locomotive is currently shunting around the rail tracks at our Scunthorpe site as part of a new trial. The Class 18 CBD90 loco, hired by British Steel from rolling stock lease hire suppliers Beacon Rail Leasing...
Survey reveals steel is 'material of choice'
Steel continues to dominate as the structural framing material of choice with market share growth in key UK construction sectors in 2023, according to an independent survey. The 2023 Construction Markets’ survey, commissioned by the British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) and...
British Steel submits application for electric arc furnace in Scunthorpe
British Steel has submitted a planning application to North Lincolnshire Council for our proposed Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) in Scunthorpe. Once the application document has been verified, it will be considered by the council. The Scunthorpe application follows our application to...
Electric Arc Furnace technology can produce all steel products and grades – UK Steel
A special paper explaining how Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) technology can produce all steel products and grades by managing the raw material mix has been published by UK Steel. It says steelmakers are overcoming previous manufacturing challenges through technological advances and...
British Steel building £10 million rail stocking facility
A new £10-million rail stocking facility, the biggest of its kind in the country, is taking shape at our Scunthorpe site. All civils were completed before Christmas and the main towers and gantry sections are currently being erected. Future works include the...
British Steel supports study into environmentally friendly green fuel
A university research study supported by British Steel is investigating the production of an environmentally friendly green fuel. The research will investigate whether the fuel, known as biochar, can replace injection coal in blast furnaces and act as a future clean...