Ravenscraig steelworks

Overview of the Ravenscraig site, shortly before closure in 1992.
The cooling towers and gasometers at the Ravenscraig Steelworks dominated the local landscape before their demolition in 1996.
Davy rolling mills in operation at Ravenscraig in 1985.

The Ravenscraig steelworks, operated by Colvilles and from 1967 by British Steel Corporation, consisted of an integrated iron and steel works and a hot strip steel mill. They were located in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Motherwell was noted as the steel production capital of Scotland, nicknamed Steelopolis.[1] Its skyline was dominated by the gas holder and three cooling towers of the Ravenscraig steel plant which closed in 1992. The Ravenscraig plant had one of the longest continuous casting, hot rolling, steel production facilities in the world before it was decommissioned. Construction of the integrated iron and steel works started in 1954. The steel mill, which was built shortly after, was one of four in the United Kingdom. In 1992, when it closed down, it was the largest hot strip steel mill in Western Europe.

The former steelworks and strip mill have now been cleared, and the site is in the process of becoming the new town of Ravenscraig.

  1. ^ "Brief History". Archived from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2008.