British Steel

Sella Controls was awarded a contract by British Steel to design and supply a new Siemens S7 PLC control system for Hunslet shunting locomotives at its Scunthorpe site, replacing an obsolete Square-D system.

British Steel has been awarded two multi-million pound contracts to supply 86,000 tonnes of steel rail to Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), including 18,000 tonnes of Stress-Free heat treated rail manufactured at its Scunthorpe plant.

British Steel secured a four-year contract to supply more than 3,000 km of rail to Belgium's national rail operator Infrabel. Deliveries are expected to start in January 2019.

Network Rail has extended its contract with British Steel for two years, worth £100 million annually, for the supply of approximately 200,000 tonnes of long steel rail for maintenance and renewals. The contract runs from March 2019 to March 2021.

British Steel invested £1 million in its rolling mills at the Scunthorpe plant to enable production of 120-meter-long rails, up from the previous maximum of 108 meters. This investment enabled the company to win the Deutsche Bahn contract.

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.

Harrison Spinks is investing £1.8 million in a wire drawing facility on British Steel's site in Scunthorpe, creating 22 jobs. Two wire drawing lines will be installed at the end of April.

British Steel secured a contract to supply crane rails and special profiles for the fourth phase of the Yangshan deep water port in Shanghai, China. The deal includes 4,650 tonnes already supplied and 3,000 tonnes to follow.

British Steel secured a contract to supply crane rails for the expansion of Shanghai's Yangshan deep-water quay, with steel rolled at its Skinningrove plant. The deal is delivered through Steel CLIK.

British Steel (formerly Tata Steel) in Scunthorpe supplied thousands of tonnes of steel for the construction of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest warship. The contract was awarded in 2008 and the ship was commissioned in December 2017.

British Steel has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire FNsteel, a Dutch manufacturer of premium wire rod products, for an undisclosed amount. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.

British Steel has delivered 16km of rail (900 tonnes) for the latest phase of the £350 million Tyne and Wear Metro modernisation programme in North East England. The rails were manufactured at British Steel's Scunthorpe steelworks and will be used to upgrade lines between Chillingham Road and St James's stations in Newcastle.

British Steel secured significant contracts including supplying steel for the Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset and rails for the Algerian and Italian train networks.

British Steel has secured a contract to supply 5,500 tonnes of rail to the Finnish Transport Agency for the sixth consecutive year. The contract was announced on February 28, 2019, with deliveries to be completed by April 2017.

Structural steelwork contractor William Hare has struck a supply chain partnership agreement with British Steel, under which British Steel will supply 3,500 tonnes of steel for 100 Bishopsgate and 1,000 tonnes for The Scalpel in London. The deal was announced on September 16, 2016.