Tata Steel to invest in Glasgow plant

Company reinforcing commitment to construction equipment industry with £8 million investment

TATA Steel are to invest £8 million in their specialist steels Clydebridge plant in Cambuslang, Glasgow, increasing the plant’s capacity to produce the premium quality, high-strength steel plate essential for construction and earthmoving equipment by up to 50%.

The Clydebridge plant produces the specialist steel plate for applications where the strength-to-weight ratio and contact abrasion are significant factors, such as loader buckets and dumptruck bodies.

Investment in the plant – which includes expanding the facility’s two furnaces, installing two new gas-cutting machines, and a new stamping and marking machine – will increase output capacity to 3,200 tonnes per week and lead to the creation of around 26 new jobs.

The steel processed at Clydebridge is manufactured in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, before being rolled at one of Tata Steel’s two UK plate mills – Scunthorpe or Dalzell. Recruitment at Clydebridge will start next spring prior to the expanded capacity coming on line in summer 2012.