Deal done to buy Corus site

Posted on 27 Aug 2010 by The Manufacturer

Thai steel company SSI has signed a memorandum of understanding to buy a mothballed Corus Steel factory for £320m and hopes to begin producing steel again in 2011.

The Teesside Cast Products plant in Redcar was mothballed by Corus owner Tata Steel earlier this year after a consortium of four international steel buyers pulled out of a ten year contract which provided 80 per cent of the workflow at the site just four years in. Today, Tata announced a deal has been reached…

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