Ravenscraig steelworks Totally Explained

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Ravenscraig steelworks was a steel mill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. At its closure in 1991, it was the largest hot strip steel mill in Western Europe.

History

On 15 February 1951, as a result of the Iron and Steel Act 1949, the nationalised Scottish iron and steel companies came under the ownership of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain.
   Government ownership was reversed by the Iron and Steel Act 1953, which gradually returned the former nationalised Iron and Steel companies to their original owners. was approved in July 1954 by the Iron and Steel Board.
   In 1954 the first stages of development began in Ravenscraig turning a green field into a site for steelworks. By 1957 several coke ovens, a by-products plant, a blast furnace and an open hearth melting shop with three steelmaking furnaces were built, and by 1959 a stripmill was complete.
   Motherwell was noted as the steel production capital of Scotland, nicknamed Steelopolis. Its skyline was dominated by the water tower and three cooling towers of the Ravenscraig steel plant which closed in 1992. The Ravenscraig plant had one of the longest continuous casting, hot rolling, steel production facilities in the world before it was decommissioned.
   The closure of Ravenscraig in 1993 signalled the end of large scale steel making in Scotland; and was the cause of a loss of 770 jobs, and another 10,000 job losses directly and indirectly linked.

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