# British Steel wins major rail supply contract from Deutsche Bahn

British Steel secured a contract to supply approximately 20,000 tonnes of 120-meter-long rails annually to Deutsche Bahn, Europe's largest buyer of railway rails. The contract follows a £1 million investment in rolling mills at its Scunthorpe plant to enable production of the longer rails.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2018-04-12
- Where: Scunthorpe, United Kingdom
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 20,000 tonnes of rails per year
- Products: railway rails
- Sectors: [Steel and Metal Products](https://endata.com/sectors/steel-metal-products.md)

## Companies

- [British Steel](https://endata.com/companies/18188.md)
- [Deutsche Bahn](https://endata.com/companies/9395.md) (customer)

## Sources

- [konstruktion-industrie.com](https://www.konstruktion-industrie.com/news/11602-british-steel-erh%C3%A4lt-den-zuschlag-f%C3%BCr-einen-gro%C3%9Fauftrag-der-deutschen-bahn), 2018-04-12: "Laut Vertrag wird das Unternehmen jährlich rund 20.000 Tonnen Schienen mit einer Länge von 120m nach Deutschland liefern."

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