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Tata Steel Opens Steel Distribution Center at Teesside
03/19/2012 - The new center will be responsible for managing and distributing around 100,000 tonnes of the company’s construction steel stock from the Teesside Beam Mill, the sections mill in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, and Tata Steel’s tubes mills in Corby, Northamptonshire.
Tata Steel has invested £3.1 million to create a new steel distribution center at Teesside. The facility, which is located on the company’s Lackenby site, adjacent to its Teesside Beam Mill, is expected to provide faster, more efficient service for the construction industry.
The new center will be responsible for managing and distributing around 100,000 tonnes of the company’s construction steel stock from the Teesside Beam Mill, the sections mill in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, and Tata Steel’s tubes mills in Corby, Northamptonshire.
Director of the new facility, Rob Ridge, said: “The steel was previously transported to our Steelpark distribution center in Wednesfield, and other service centers, before being transferred to the customer. The Wednesfield site will still process a large number of the steel sections, but it is anticipated the vast majority will now be delivered to the customer straight from the Teesside service center.
“This is a much more efficient way of handling our steel sections that will bring cost saving benefits to Tata Steel, while also speeding up delivery for our customers. We will now be able to offer our customers an improved delivery service, with shorter lead times throughout the UK and Ireland.”
The company anticipates that the new center could reduce the amount of movement throughout the supply chain by as much as 10,000 miles every month.
Steelpark in Wednesfield will focus on exploiting its processing capability, shot blasting, cutting, and growing its current levels of business within the retail market.
The opening of the center created 30 new jobs, which were filled by Tata Steel employees redeployed from the company’s Teesside Beam Mill and Steelpark distribution center in Wednesfield, West Midlands.
The European operations of Tata Steel (formerly known as Corus) comprise Europe’s second largest steel producer. With main steelmaking operations in the UK and the Netherlands, the company supplies steel and related services to the construction, automotive, packaging, lifting and excavating, energy and power, and other demanding markets worldwide.
The European operations of Tata Steel (formerly known as Corus) comprise Europe’s second largest steel producer. With main steelmaking operations in the UK and the Netherlands, the company supplies steel and related services to the construction, automotive, packaging, lifting and excavating, energy and power, and other demanding markets worldwide.
Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 28 million tonnes and approximately 80,000 employees across four continents.
