Tata Steel’s Corby plans
TATA STEEL last Thursday (15) unveiled plans for its tube-making site in the East Midlands.
Manufacturing processes on the site will be brought closer together as part of a £25-million transformation scheme, paid for in part with the sale of land freed up by the changes, as well as savings from operational changes.
Work has started at the 150-acre site at Corby, which produces products for everything from sports stadiums and skyscrapers (such as the Shard in London) to hospital beds and renewable green energy schemes.
The site is used to produce tube products from steel made at the company’s Port Talbot works in Wales.
“Steel is, and will continue to be, an essential part of the UK’s plans to decarbonise for the future,” said Sandip Biswas, chairman of Tata Steel UK.
“We need to ensure we are able to make and supply the products right here in the UK which will help transition to a net-zero future,” he added.
A two-year investment project aims to create a single hightech warehouse.
Tata Steel said it would work with construction partners as well as local authorities to ensure minimal impact on the surrounding community during the project.
Nigel Chudley, who leads the warehouse project, said: “We are creating a single site warehouse within the East Works, which will allow the closure of the South warehouse.
Tata Steel, one of Europe’s prominent steel producers, has steelmaking operations in the UK and the Netherlands, and manufacturing plants across Europe. It supplies high-quality steel products to the construction, infrastructure, automotive, packaging and engineering sectors.