News Corus Order Brings Hope For Axed Workers
4:16pm UK, Tuesday March 23, 2010
Steelmaker Corus has won an order worth nearly £200m from energy giant Total to supply pipes for a new gas field project in Scotland.
Corus workers who lost their jobs at Redcar will be able to apply for the new roles
The valuable contract, which will be handled by the Corus pipe mill in Hartlepool, will create 100 jobs and safeguard 250 more.
Corus stated it would offer the new positions to steel workers who lost their jobs when its Redcar factory in Teesside was partially mothballed.
Its employees will work to produce over 300 miles of pipes – equivalent to the distance from Edinburgh to London – for the Laggan-Tormore off-shore development west of the Shetlands.
Total and Corus signed the deal at the London office of Lord Mandelson, who described the “prestigious contract” as being “excellent news for the Corus workforce at Hartlepool”.
The Energy Minister Lord Hunt said: “The west of Shetland is one of the most challenging marine environments in the UK and this new pipeline is key to opening the area up to further oil and gas developments.
“The development has already encouraged other new projects and will help ensure secure energy supplies for years to come.
“The project is good news for jobs and it’s welcome that this important contract has gone to Corus.”
Some 1,600 workers were left facing redundancy when the blast furnace at the Redcar plant began to be closed down last month.
Unions had raised the threat of industrial action after accusing Corus of failing to demonstrate sufficient progress in finding a buyer for the Teesside Cast Products site.
Corus produces about 20 million tonnes of steel a year and is owned by India’s Tata Steel, the eighth-biggest steelmaker in the world.
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