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Post by johnofgwent on Sept 3, 2024 6:41:29 GMT
 The last cargo of raw materials arrives at Port Talbot. The blast furnaces will be switched off on my birthday. On the bright side the 20,000% reduction in air pollution will reveal the total fucking hypocrisy in the 50mph limit on the M4 give miles away 'to improve air quality' I don't know whether to be more shocked that we are abandoning manufacture of what used to be a product considered vital to our national security and something we would have gone to war to protect the making of, or that we ship the materials to make the stuff in, given that we invented the process using materials dug from our own lands |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Sept 3, 2024 10:41:00 GMT
Your BBC article is the typical low intelligence report which tells you nothing of any real worth. Fortunately Sean Foo has done a little video on steel that I watched the other day www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hrekxULinkWithout a global view, one is blind and sees these job losses as irrational, but one could have predicted it. It's to do with the price. The main steel producers are China, US, Japan and India. The video explains Japan's Nippon Steel is in just as much trouble. A while back I remember posting a video from China on fully robotic mining. China plays the vertical integration game. If you can get your ore cheap then you have a head start in the game. China can cut costs all the way down the chain by owning the chain. You will see more of this in due course. Shame Blighty never thought of it themselves eh? More worried about DEI quotients. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Sept 3, 2024 13:33:25 GMT
Your BBC article is the typical low intelligence report which tells you nothing of any real worth. Fortunately Sean Foo has done a little video on steel that I watched the other day www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hrekxULinkWithout a global view, one is blind and sees these job losses as irrational, but one could have predicted it. It's to do with the price. The main steel producers are China, US, Japan and India. The video explains Japan's Nippon Steel is in just as much trouble. A while back I remember posting a video from China on fully robotic mining. China plays the vertical integration game. If you can get your ore cheap then you have a head start in the game. China can cut costs all the way down the chain by owning the chain. You will see more of this in due course. Shame Blighty never thought of it themselves eh? More worried about DEI quotients. Well, I know that India can't make steel to the same quality as that which the now closed steelworks in Britain had been, but that's a metallurgical analysis not a YouTube video. |
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Post by Vinny on Sept 3, 2024 17:39:05 GMT
Locally produced coal and locally produced steel has a lower carbon cost than imported steel.
Restart mining.
Keep Port Talbot steelworks open.
Abolish the legacy EU coal divestment policy.
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Post by Dogburger on Sept 4, 2024 6:57:24 GMT
Well hopefully the Port Talbot plant will adapt as Redcar has and move to electric arc furnaces . At least it will put a few jobs back in the community even if it won't be the same as the industry they closed down for nothing other than the economic suicide of going green
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Sept 4, 2024 7:16:36 GMT
Your BBC article is the typical low intelligence report which tells you nothing of any real worth. Fortunately Sean Foo has done a little video on steel that I watched the other day www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hrekxULinkWithout a global view, one is blind and sees these job losses as irrational, but one could have predicted it. It's to do with the price. The main steel producers are China, US, Japan and India. The video explains Japan's Nippon Steel is in just as much trouble. A while back I remember posting a video from China on fully robotic mining. China plays the vertical integration game. If you can get your ore cheap then you have a head start in the game. China can cut costs all the way down the chain by owning the chain. You will see more of this in due course. Shame Blighty never thought of it themselves eh? More worried about DEI quotients. Well, I know that India can't make steel to the same quality as that which the now closed steelworks in Britain had been, but that's a metallurgical analysis not a YouTube video. Never-the-less, they are still in the market. It's cheap labour in India, just like what our country is hoping to become. |
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