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technical consultancy services to meet the needs of high speed, heavy duty, metro and tramway networks globally.
“ In addition, local UK production offers further benefits, including giving customers a two-to-three-month head start compared to imported steel. We are a business that delivers on quality, speed and reliability, and our steel can be on site in as little as three days, with regular rolling of the full range of sizes every two to four weeks.”
While British Steel continues to invest in the UK- supporting local jobs, skills and supply chains – Ben notes that the company is increasingly being excluded from UK private and public sector construction schemes because of carbon-related procurement criteria.“ This means that UK construction schemes are increasingly reliant on imported, lower carbon steel made in an electric-arc furnace( EAF) to meet net zero benchmarks, rather than supporting jobs, skills and investment here at home. This simply shifts emissions overseas while excluding British Steel from supply,” he points out.“ We’ re grappling with the tension at the heart of policy: while government rightly intervened to safeguard domestic steelmaking capacity, procurement frameworks are making it harder for that capacity to be fully used by the construction sector.”
In response, British Steel has launched the‘ Save Steel, Buy British’ campaign to call on UK industry to sign a pledge backing the nation’ s steel sector.“ We’ ve been delighted with the response so far, with figures such as Luke Myer MP, Sir Nic Dakin, Mayor Luke Campbell, Mayor Ben Houchen, Mayor Claire Ward and Mayor Andrea Jenkyns setting out their support for secure, sovereign steelmaking.
“ Buying British steel protects the social value the industry delivers while we move forward,” Ben continues.“ Thousands of skilled jobs, strong communities and secure supply chains depend on it. Importing steel simply offshores jobs and value, and switching to
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