| Port Talbot Steelworks | |
|---|---|
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| Industry | Steelmaking |
| Employees | around 2,000 |
| Owner(s) | Tata Steel |
Port Talbot Steelworks is a steel mill in Port Talbot, Wales. Over 4,000 people worked at the plant until the last blast furnace closed in October 2024. Around 2,000 employees remain after this time, processing imported steel slabs to produce rolled steel products.[1][2] The mill is in the process of building a 320-ton capacity electric arc furnace which would be operational in late 2027.[3]
The majority of the steel slabs produced before September 2024 was rolled on-site at Port Talbot and at the Newport Llanwern site to make a variety of steel strip products. The remainder was processed at other Tata Steel plants or sold in slab form. After September 2024 imported steel slabs are used as inputs at those rolling plants.
The works covers a large area of land which dominates the east of the town. Its two inactive blast furnaces[4] and steel production plant buildings are major landmarks visible from both the M4 motorway and the South Wales Main Line when passing through the town.
- ^ "Tata Steel Thyssenkrupp merger: Safeguard Welsh jobs call". BBC News. 20 September 2017.
- ^ "Tata Steel to lay off 2,800 workers in major UK restructuring". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ https://www.tatasteeluk.com/corporate/news-tata-steel-will-proceed-with-its-%C2%A31.25-billion-investment-to-build-a-state-of-the-art-electric-arc-furnace-in-port-talbot
- ^ "How to get to Port Talbot Works" (PDF). Tata Steel. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2016.