News: Tata Steel aims high with aerospace investment in South Yorkshire
Tata Steel is set to begin trials on new equipment at their Stocksbridge steelworks as they look to produce more steel for the aerospace industry.
The Indian-owned steelmaker announced the £6.5m investment programme last year and has invested in two vacuum arc remelting furnaces and specialist testing equipment at Stocksbridge. A move that has safeguarded 2,000 jobs at Rotherham and Stocksbridge.
Engineers are currently carrying out the final installation work on the new equipment to enable trials to begin by the end of 2011. Both furnaces are expected to be in full production in early 2012.
Andrew Douglass, engineering director at Tata Steel's speciality business, said: "A team of specialist engineers from Tata Steel have worked incredibly hard on the challenging project to install this new equipment, which will help us to increase our production of highly technical and demanding products for the aerospace industry.
"We are now entering the testing phase of this major investment programme, and will begin trials later this year. This process will ensure the new equipment is capable of producing the technically-demanding and safety critical steels our aerospace customers require."
Vacuum arc remelting furnaces improve the chemical and mechanical properties of steel so it meets the exacting standards of the world's most demanding applications, such as energy exploration and generation, as well as aerospace.
The £6.5m investment in aerospace steel production will boost output of these steels by 30% and has led to the creation of eight new jobs.
The company has been a leading manufacturer of aerospace steels for more than 60 years and supplies special steels to aerospace component manufacturers around the world from the company's South Yorkshire sites at Rotherham and Stocksbridge.
Investment in 2005 saw the Rotherham site at Aldwarke become the focus for steel making, casting and rolling of specialist steels. The steel is manufactured at the Rotherham site before undergoing further refining at the Stocksbridge plant or the Thrybergh Bar Mill to improve the quality.
The business has shown the benefits of a new strategy that focuses on exceptional high-value products and sectors and the proportion of high-value sales in the Speciality Steels portfolio has risen from 50% to 90%
The steel, predominantly stainless and low alloy grades, is used in landing gear and aircraft engines including the landing gear of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which made its maiden commercial flight this week.
Just last week, Tata announced that a further £4.5m is being investing in their South Yorkshire speciality steel plants.
Mark Broxholme, managing director of Tata Steel's speciality business, said: "We have demonstrated our expertise in the delivery of this major aerospace project in Stocksbridge, and this has given the company the confidence to further invest in steelmaking in South Yorkshire with these latest projects to improve energy efficiency and reliability, reduce emissions and further boost production of our high-value products."
Tata Steel Europe website
Images: ana.co.jp / Messier-Bugatti-Dowty
The Indian-owned steelmaker announced the £6.5m investment programme last year and has invested in two vacuum arc remelting furnaces and specialist testing equipment at Stocksbridge. A move that has safeguarded 2,000 jobs at Rotherham and Stocksbridge.
Engineers are currently carrying out the final installation work on the new equipment to enable trials to begin by the end of 2011. Both furnaces are expected to be in full production in early 2012.
Andrew Douglass, engineering director at Tata Steel's speciality business, said: "A team of specialist engineers from Tata Steel have worked incredibly hard on the challenging project to install this new equipment, which will help us to increase our production of highly technical and demanding products for the aerospace industry.
"We are now entering the testing phase of this major investment programme, and will begin trials later this year. This process will ensure the new equipment is capable of producing the technically-demanding and safety critical steels our aerospace customers require."
Vacuum arc remelting furnaces improve the chemical and mechanical properties of steel so it meets the exacting standards of the world's most demanding applications, such as energy exploration and generation, as well as aerospace.
The £6.5m investment in aerospace steel production will boost output of these steels by 30% and has led to the creation of eight new jobs.
The company has been a leading manufacturer of aerospace steels for more than 60 years and supplies special steels to aerospace component manufacturers around the world from the company's South Yorkshire sites at Rotherham and Stocksbridge.
Investment in 2005 saw the Rotherham site at Aldwarke become the focus for steel making, casting and rolling of specialist steels. The steel is manufactured at the Rotherham site before undergoing further refining at the Stocksbridge plant or the Thrybergh Bar Mill to improve the quality.
The business has shown the benefits of a new strategy that focuses on exceptional high-value products and sectors and the proportion of high-value sales in the Speciality Steels portfolio has risen from 50% to 90%
The steel, predominantly stainless and low alloy grades, is used in landing gear and aircraft engines including the landing gear of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which made its maiden commercial flight this week.Just last week, Tata announced that a further £4.5m is being investing in their South Yorkshire speciality steel plants.
Mark Broxholme, managing director of Tata Steel's speciality business, said: "We have demonstrated our expertise in the delivery of this major aerospace project in Stocksbridge, and this has given the company the confidence to further invest in steelmaking in South Yorkshire with these latest projects to improve energy efficiency and reliability, reduce emissions and further boost production of our high-value products."
Tata Steel Europe website
Images: ana.co.jp / Messier-Bugatti-Dowty
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