Port Talbot Steelworks, Port Talbot, Wales, UK. 19th January 2024. View of Port Talbot Steelworks from a back garden of a nearby house. / The owners

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Port Talbot Steelworks, Port Talbot, Wales, UK. 19th January 2024. View of Port Talbot Steelworks from a back garden of a nearby house. / The owners of Port Talbot steelworks have rejected a trade union plan designed to keep its blast furnaces running, putting nearly 3,000 jobs at risk and leaving the UK on course to become the only major economy unable to make steel from scratch. A statement from Tata is expected to be announced formally later today, indicating that Port Talbot’s blast furnaces will shut down while the company builds electric arc furnaces, which make steel from recycled scrap, a greener and cheaper process.

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Location: Port Talbot Steelworks, Wales, UK
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