British Steel wins major rail contract for Egypt’s Green Line
British Steel has won a multi-million-pound contract to supply rail for a landmark new route in North Africa. In total, 9,500 tonnes of track, produced in Scunthorpe, will be delivered for Egypt’s Green Line railway – the country’s first fully electrified mainline and...
Work is progressing at pace on British Steel’s £26-million Skinningrove Service Centre
Work is progressing at pace on British Steel’s £26-million Skinningrove Service Centre. The Special Profiles facility will include cut-to-length lines, product milling, machining and warehousing operations. It is due to open in the next 6 weeks, enabling us to make and process...
British Steel’s wire rod team retains International Automative Test Force 16949 certificate
British Steel’s Scunthorpe Rod Mill (SRM) has secured its best-ever result in retaining a vital endorsement for the management of products it supplies into the automotive market. SRM makes a vast array of semi-finished products for customers who manufacture them into...
New trucks giving a lift to British Steel
The acquisition of two more forklift trucks for the Semi-Finished Products (SFP) team at Scunthorpe completes a £3.1-million investment in mobile plant at British Steel. The SVE 52120-60 forklift trucks have a maximum lifting capacity of 52 tonnes and will be...
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...