Manufacturing

Corus estimates that at the end of December 2006, it was the ninth largest steel producer in the world and produced 18.3mt of crude steel in 2006.

Corus produces carbon steel by the basic oxygen steelmaking method at four integrated steelworks at Port Talbot, Scunthorpe and Teesside in the UK and at IJmuiden in The Netherlands. Engineering steels are produced at Rotherham, UK, using the electric arc furnace method.  A number of Corus’ rolling mills and process lines are on the same sites as the steelworks, but most of Corus’ operating sites do not have steelmaking facilities. These include:

• the strip mills at Llanwern, South Wales
• the tinplate works at Trostre, South Wales and Bergen, Norway
• the coating works at Tafarnaubach, South Wales, Shotton, North Wales and Maubeuge, North France
• the electrical steel works at Newport, South Wales and Surahammer, Sweden
• the tube mills at Corby and Hartlepool, England and Oosterhout, Arnhem and Maastricht, Netherlands
• the plate mill at Dalzell, Scotland
• the rail mill at Hayange, North-East France
• the narrow strip mills at Brinsworth, England, Düsseldorf & Trier, Germany and Warren & Bethlehem, USA
• the special section mill at Skinningrove, England
  

Corus estimates that, as at 30 December 2006, it was the ninth largest steel producer in the world and produced 18.3mt of crude steel in 2006 (equivalent to 18.8mt of liquid steel).

Corus’ aluminium operations relate to the production of primary metal for external customers. This production takes place in two smelters, at Delfzijl in The Netherlands and Voerde in Germany.