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Steel firm Corus is to take on 154 new workers in South Yorkshire, and resume apprentice and graduate recruitment, it has been announced.
The latest plans will bring the number of new workers hired by the firm to more than 300 since March, with the Speciality Steels division recruiting trainees for the first time since the [...]

Despite years of decline, the UK Automotive Industry, continues to be a vital part of the UK’s manufacturing Industry.
The UK is the fourth largest automotive manufacturer in Europe, building two million engines and one million vehicles in 2009 according to new figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
More than two million engines and [...]

The following article by Roger Bootle appears in Today’s Telegraph
This is a far cry from the days when it was widely believed that British man could live by services alone. But it is now part of the zeitgeist. Since the financial crisis erupted, there has been a persistent strain of comment to the effect that [...]

The Teesside Cast Products Plant (TCP) run by Corus, which is owned by Indian conglomerate Tata, will finally be mothballed on Friday - three weeks after the Redcar site was initially planned to shut down.
Local Labour MP Vera Baird said the rising price of steel could give the town’s major employer a future, and [...]

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Corus, the European unit of Tata Steel Ltd. announced Friday plans to build a new pilot plant at its Ijmuiden, Netherlands steelworks to test a new steelmaking process that could potentially reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 50%, the company said Friday. The company is working in consortium with the [...]

Britain’s manufacturing sector expanded unexpectedly last month and at the fastest rate in two years as the weak pound made exports cheaper and imports more expensive, according to new data.
Barely a month after Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, said that weak sterling “will be helpful” in rebalancing Britain’s economy, the latest [...]

Salzgitter Chief Executive Wolfgang Leese on Tuesday cautioned against premature optimism in the steel sector, warning that markets were fragile and that a recovery in demand is unlikely to be sustained.
If things go well, demand will continue to be flat, Leese said on the sidelines of an event in Garbsen, near Hanover, Germany.
Signs of recovery [...]

With steel shipments from metals service centers slowly rising, inventories of the metal, in decline since early last year, rose slightly in the United States and Canada, the Metals Activity Report from the Metals Service Center Institute shows. Shipments of aluminum products also rose slightly, but inventories of the light metal continued to decline in [...]

Reuters report that ThyssenKrupp will shed as many as 20,000 jobs in it’s current financial year in response to the current economic slump.
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