Industry
SWANSEA: Council electricians patent lightning-protection process experts said couldn’t be done
David James and Ross Miller spent hundreds of hours in a shed refining a safer way to join the metals…
MILFORD HAVEN: Major incident declared as fire sends black smoke over town — the second major industrial blaze in the region in weeks
A fire involving a decommissioned oil tank and around 60 gas cylinders sent black smoke over Milford Haven on Monday…
GREEN STEEL: Llanelli firm lands key contract on Port Talbot’s £1.25bn transformation — with work starting on site today
Morganstone — founded in Llanelli and now based in Swansea — will build the structural heart of the steelworks’ new…
PORT TALBOT: Green jet fuel plant scrapped — as blast furnace closure kills off decade-long project
LanzaTech has pulled out of building a sustainable aviation fuel plant in Port Talbot, ending a project first announced more…
GREEN STEEL: Tata warns new UK import rules leave Port Talbot exposed
Tata Steel says the UK Government's final steel import quotas, announced today, do not go far enough to protect domestic…
GREEN STEEL: Port Talbot’s giant new furnace is built and on its way — as Tata shows off a year of transformation
The company says the heart of its £1.25bn electric arc furnace has been fabricated and is being shipped to Port…
PONTARDAWE: Town’s metals firm opens £2.5m plant that makes parts for jet engines
A Pontardawe firm that has made specialist metal parts in the Swansea Valley since 1969 has opened a £2.5m facility…
GREEN STEEL: Tata ‘confident’ supply will hold and furnace project unaffected after Port Talbot fire
Tata Steel's chief executive has moved to reassure customers and the wider industry that supply will be maintained after last…
GREEN STEEL DELAY: Cross-party calls for answers over Port Talbot furnace setback as politicians press Tata and National Grid
A cross-party call for clarity is mounting at the Senedd over the delay to Port Talbot's new electric arc furnace,…
GREEN STEEL DELAY: Former Aberavon MS says National Grid should face penalties over delayed electric furnace connection
David Rees, the former Aberavon MS who chaired the Senedd's cross-party group on steel, says the new electric arc furnace…
GREEN STEEL: Port Talbot’s £1.25bn furnace could be delayed by up to eight months over power hold-up
Tata Steel has warned that its switch to greener electric steelmaking at Port Talbot may be held up, after the…