Swift & decisive action needed to support UK steel

Posted on 9 Sep 2016 by Jonny Williamson

Government and industry officials from G20 countries will need to move fast to prevent more steel plant closures and community catastrophes, according to the head of UK Steel.

The ‘Global Forum on Excess Capacity in the Steel Sector’, set up to tackle the over-production of steel following the G20 summit in China, is meeting behind closed doors in the French capital a year after the closure of the Redcar works which sparked the start of a crisis in the UK steel industry. In…

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