British Steel’s Chinese bosses look set to end 190 years of steelmaking at Scunthorpe. But they are only the latest in a long line of owners who have tried and failed to give the plant’s blast furnaces a bright future.
It is almost nine years to the day that Tata Steel prompted the crisis that has ended up in the news that the plant’s two remaining operational furnaces will close with the loss of 2,700 jobs.
In 2016 the Indian steelmaker announced that it was no longer able to cope with the no-boom and frequent bust of the privatised UK steel operations it had acquired a decade earlier and that it was to break up its British subsidiary.
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