While BF5 will close this week, Blast Furnace 4 will shut in September and will end Port Talbot’s ability to produce liquid iron from ore. Around 2,800 staff from Tata’s 8,000 workforce will ...

Arc furnaces, which are more environmentally friendly, are set to replace the traditional blast furnaces at the Port Talbot steelworks, but they require thousands fewer staff - meaning up to 2,800 ...

Blast furnaces have been used at Port Talbot since the 1950s and steelmaking has been taking place at the site for 100 years. A blast furnace is a large industrial furnace that's used to extract ...

The long goodbye to blast furnace no. 4 is nearly over, as Port Talbot stands on the precipice of becoming a ‘steel town’ stripped of its ability to make its own ‘virgin’ steel.

Port Talbot was the largest steelmaking plant in the UK until the two blast furnaces were switched off in September 2024, which saw the loss of 2,800 jobs as part of the transition to greener ...

The blast furnaces now belong to Port Talbot's past but the steel industry is no stranger to change and shifts in technology. So what could the future hold for this steelworks and the surrounding ...

Loud noises and large plumes of steam will be visible above the Port Talbot steelworks as one of its historic furnaces is closed down by Friday. Blast Furnace 5 (BF5) had been operating since 1959 ...

Nigel Farage will call for Port Talbot’s blast furnaces to reopen after they were shut down last year as Reform UK sets its sights on the Welsh elections in 2026. On a visit to the South Wales ...