Thread: Here we go again - Port Talbot to axe 1,000 steel jobs
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Old 17-01-2016, 21:38   #9
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Re: Here we go again - Port Talbot to axe 1,000 steel jobs
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy View Post
We can't compete when China is dumping and Redcar could've been saved if the contracts for the mod went to them instead of just after allowing them to go bust giving the job to Sweden, guess they had their reasons though...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34392379

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-Britain.html
Minor little detail, but Redcar couldn't actually produce the specialist steel required.
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‘The quantities of steel required for the Ajax programme ... are relatively small and spread over eight years of manufacture. The steel is specialist in nature with the majority coming from Sweden,’

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