UK steel production is in meltdown,partly due to cheap metal from China, but businessman Sanjeev Gupta believes the industry has a future Haydn Swidenbank points towards a rickety yellow cabin, and perched 10ft up on a metal gantry that overlooks the hot strip mill. You wouldn’t trust someone on their own up there in the pulpits [monitoring points] until they have been doing it for two or three years,” says the operations director of Liberty Steel Newport.
Inside the cabin, two men peer through scratched plexiglass at a 15-tonne slab of volcanic steel that rattles along the 300m-long conveyor below, and which rolls and stretches the hot metal. Data on a computer screen helps them to monitor the temperature of the orange slab and the pressure of the water jets that frosty the hissing strip as it moves along the line.
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Source: theguardian.com