Hi - Blast Furnace 5 on our Port Talbot site was shutdown at the beginning of July. Our remaining Blast Furnace, BF4, will come offline in September, along with remaining assets still in operation in our 'heavy end'. There are two blast furnaces owned by British Steel in Scunthorpe, however, there are plans to close both as that company moves to EAF steelmaking. As we are moving to greener ways of producing steel, we'll be importing steel slab from our sister plants in Netherlands and India for a short period before we get our own electric arc furnace up and running at Port Talbot. We'll then use high quality scrap, sourced from the UK, to feed the EAF and make green steel (the UK currently produces 10 million tonnes of steel scrap a year - so it's almost like using a natural resource!). You might find this video helpful - it explains the future process in more detail: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i5ifgcqFttfWaYE.html

Amazing footage, thanks John. Link here if anyone else would like to see: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7Z3lcR7nNiolp8.htmlsi=YXdiJPUaF__Kw3T3

No, Blast Furnace 5 wasn't salamander tapped at the end of this process. It was tapped during the 2018 life extension project, which you can watch here: kzfaq.info/sun/PLETTLU0iK3hOhqq7wR91ZHYVDZkFx_nqz.

@@TataSteelUK so if it isnt salamander tapped is there still iron at the bottom of the furnace? That will set solid?

That's right. The team cast as much as iron as possible, but a small amount will have been left as the furnace wasn't salamander tapped.

We have already secured steel substrate - slabs and coils - to fulfil our order book, and work has already begun to prepare for the EAF build. You can find out more in the Green Steel Future video playlist: kzfaq.info/sun/PLETTLU0iK3hP8RLJs-cEDJHAD1a9x6f0h or by visiting www.greensteelfuture.com.

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It hasn't been announced yet, but where we can, we will be recycling steel in the electric arc furnace.

Hi Paul, we will no longer be creating molten iron from imported iron ore in our blast furnaces then converting that into steel. Instead, we will be recycling the abundance of steel scrap we have in the UK in our new electric arc furnace. One of the wonderful things about steel is it can be infinitely recycled without losing its properties. So we will no longer be reliant on other countries for the raw materials going into our furnace, we will also be drastically reducing our carbon footprint.

Dean Cartwright went into a bit more detail during the previous video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pcB1qZSVm5zYemQ.html. We will also be covering the BF4 closure in September so can go into more depth then, and also touch upon the learnings from the BF5 shutdown. Thanks for watching.

@@TataSteelUK Thank you!

So what? What's the issue with that, if the BF is still usable?

@@exterminator4808 British workers lose their jobs. It's one thing to be business orientated but the plant is still viable and this could have been prevented.

@@MrNinjaFish "Plant is still viable" apparently not as per TATA Steel management.

@@exterminator4808 what do they know?

@@MrNinjaFish How to run steel plants. And when to shut down loss making ones.

Unfortunately it’s not their fault, it’s the government and economic climate

It's a business, it will be run like a business.

@@AluminumOxide government gave them £500 million. Energy costs, Chinese steel produced at a fraction of the cost . Even the Dutch plant is over capacity.

@@AluminumOxide unfortunely it is through a massive lack on investment at Port Talbot and other downstream sites. Very little has been modernised creating and inefficient steel making process. You have to stay ahead of the curve and Tata have let it rot.