Britain may have to source raw materials from Japan in order to keep its last steelworks open. That’s the situation after an extraordinary intervention by the UK Government over the weekend.
Virgin steel is needed to make rail tracks. For that, you need steel blast furnaces. On Saturday, Britain’s last remaining blast furnaces were saved by…
Doubts hang over the future of Scunthorpe Steel Works, the UK’s only rail manufacturing centre. The blast furnaces there are loss-making, say the owners, and…