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The latest news from the UK metal and resources industry indicates that the network union is voting in favour of its members’ strike at Tata Steel. The move comes as part of the company’s plans to upgrade two blast furnaces at the Port Talbot site with electric arc furnaces.
“EU representatives from all Tata Steel plants in the UK have unanimously agreed to notify the company if Tata confirms its target to close blast furnace number 4,” the London-based union and its national metals chief, Alun Davies, quoted as saying.
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Tata Steel has officially announced plans to destroy the Port Talbot blast furnaces in January 2024. The company plans to upgrade them with EAF with an estimated annual capacity of 3 million tons.
In September, the U. K. government and Mumbai-based Tata Steel also reached an initial agreement on a £1. 25 billion ($1. 58 billion) investment package to decarbonize the plant, in southwest Wales, on the banks of the Bristol Channel.
The two blast furnaces at Port Talbot can currently produce up to 4. 8 million tonnes of pig iron. Thanks to this, the plant can produce up to five million tons of crude metal in its two fundamental oxygen furnaces. full capacity. Tata told British Metal Resources that it planned to destroy the first of the two blast furnaces in the first part of the year and the timing in the second part of the year.
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Tata also warned that the union’s proposal could delay the commissioning of the kilns, scheduled for 2027. However, Davies is under pressure for the consultations to continue. At this stage, we are still in national consultations and the company has not responded to our revised edition of the multi-union plan, which our experts are still developing,” Davies quoted the union as saying.
Davies also did not hint at a timetable for the strike vote. “Therefore, at the moment the Community does not confirm a timetable for the vote on commercial actions, and that would be inopportune because we have not yet exhausted the procedures,” he said. , officials from GMB, another union linked to Port Talbot, have not told MetalMiner whether or not they will also vote in favor of their members’ strike.
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