Unions GMB, Community and Unite met with bosses from British Steel owner Jingye this week about their plan and GMB has said ...

UNIONS have said British Steel has “warmed” to their plan to keep two blast furnaces open in Scunthorpe and save thousands of jobs. GMB, Community and Unite, however, warned today that the government ...

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British Steel has confirmed it plans to close down its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, putting up to 2,000 jobs at risk. They will be replaced with two electric arc furnaces - one at Scunthorpe and ...

The MP for Scunthorpe has said he is "quietly hopeful" that two new electric arc furnaces will be built at the town's steelworks. Sir Nic Dakin was responding to a report in The Sunday Times ...

British Steel has said it is continuing to purchase raw materials for Scunthorpe 's coke blast furnaces. In November, following three months of uncertainty over whether it was going to close the ...

The Financial Times and BBC have reported that the company is now looking to build two electric arc furnaces (EAFs) at its Scunthorpe site. British Steel currently has coke blast furnaces at ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British Steel was forced to close one of its two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe last year after using the ...

The two new "green steel" furnaces would replace British Steel's blast furnaces in Scunthorpe as part of plans to rebuild the country's steel industry. Sir Nic told BBC Look North: "It rings true to ...