Scunthorpe hosts 1 business unit : Corus Construction & Industrial
Corus Construction and Industrial, Corus’ 2nd largest UK site is headquartered at Scunthorpe, employing just over 4,000 people.
The site in Scunthorpe measures some 2,000 acres and is home to the four famous blast furnaces, which are all named after queens – Victoria, Bess, Anne and Mary. It is fully integrated which means its operations cover the whole steelmaking process from raw material to finished products.
Corus’ Scunthorpe site is part way through the commissioning of £235 million of investments as it strives to continually improve product quality and customer service and secure its long-term future. UK rail manufacture has moved to Scunthorpe and the new investments are enabling Corus to roll rail up to 120 metres long, a first for the UK, and of significant interest to rail customers as they endeavour to improve safety along their networks. Enhancements in the Scunthorpe site’s iron and steelmaking processes as well as in some of its manufacturing routes and despatch centres are allowing Corus to introduce best practice, product enhancement and differentiation as well as efficiency and improved safety standards.
Over the past century, Scunthorpe has been dominated by the iron and steelworks that now comprise one of Corus’ key manufacturing sites in the UK. Corus is proud of its heritage and mindful that it has, and continues to, influence the livelihoods of employees, former employees and the local businesses on which it depends.
Corus relies on the skills and dedication of its employees and invests in its current workforce as well as sponsoring its potential future workforce. Training and development remains a key component of the company’s drive to improve performance with the added benefit of allowing employees to realise their full potential. Corus is keen to attract school or college leavers into industry and last year, its Scunthorpe site took 68 Young Apprentices onto engineering, manufacturing, technical and administrative schemes, 26 graduates onto individually tailored training programmes and offered work experience for under-16s and undergraduate student placements. In addition, Corus has donated over £150,000 to North Lindsey College to help them upgrade their engineering training facilities.
Employees are keen to give something back into the community. Corus Scunthorpe funded over 40 ‘Ambassadors’ last year to help with a range of local initiatives, from coaching local junior football teams to Air Training Corps to school governors. On top of this, employees raised £130,000 for worthwhile causes last year, the major local beneficiary being Lindsey Lodge Hospice, with funds also going to a number of other local and national charities.
In responding to the ever-increasing global environmental challenge, good environmental practice has a high profile within Corus. The company has continually worked to improve energy efficiency throughout its manufacturing processes and protect the wildlife habitats in and around its sites. Corus is the largest recycler of steel in the UK and continues to work with its customers to enhance the sustainable credentials of steel in end use products.
Corus relies on a significant number of local companies to support steel manufacturing at Scunthorpe. In addition to the day-to-day support, the commissioning of the investment programme has allowed Corus Scunthorpe to work with a wide range of local and regional companies to help it to deliver an array of sophisticated and demanding steel products.
Corus is now embracing a new era as a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Steel – the world’s best steel maker according to World Steel Dynamics - together becoming the sixth largest steel company in the world. We look to the future with a new confidence and welcome the opportunities that the new enlarged group will bring.
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