CORUS INVESTMENT REFLECTS 

UK CONSERVATIVE LED GOVERNMENT  

FOCUS UPON BOOSTING MANUFACTURING 

William Graham (Conservative AM for South Wales East) welcomes the £185m investment to refurbish of a blast furnace at Corus steel works in Port Talbot; an investment which is also enhance the future of Llanwern, which rolls steel produced at Port Talbot. 

This rebuild will increase the steel production capacity at Port Talbot to 400,000 tonnes per year.  

Tata Steel (who own Corus) acknowledge their investment will make Port Talbot a global player in the production of high-quality steel products.  

“This is good news for the steel industry in throughout South Wales, following on from last month’s announcement from the Mir Steel UK on the reopening of the Alphasteel plant in Newport”. 

“I believe it also reflects a growing global appreciation of the UK Conservative led Governments actions to tackle our economic deficit and to focus on manufacturing to lead our recovery”. 

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