discodown Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Are there figures anywhere that show the amount of steel produced? Theres no point bickering like kids in a school yard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaimani Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 http://www.sheffield.org.uk/steel/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WARANTED Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 I heard it about 10-15 years ago. It probably is true. Rolling mills don't need men to push girders through, they require a button to be pressed nowadays.That was a truism whilst the Tinsley Park and Stocksbridge plants were still producing steel but since their demise it is only a myth I'm afraid. I have personally seen packaging and containerization and shipping of machinery to India from the Tinsley Park site after the sale to an Indian company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callippo Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 there's some works on that industrial park near the airport that apparently has no workers at all. It is quite sizable premises. Looking at the building from the street, you'd think that maybe about thirty or fifty people worked there, but when I asked the sandwich man how many people were in there round about lunchtimes, he said there was none really, just a few people that turned up intermittently. It was all mechanized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagel Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 It's an often repeated statement that I've heard for at least the last 20 years, but where are the figures for annual steel production in Sheffield per annum? It could easily be one of those statements that people repeat just assuming them to be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steiner Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 We probably do produce more steel,its technology isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 More steel or more revenue from steel? I can certainly believe the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Where????? It really is easy to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 I heard it about 10-15 years ago. It probably is true. Rolling mills don't need men to push girders through, they require a button to be pressed nowadays. Where I used to work they were still doing it by hand when I left in 2003. Afaik they still are, but at a different site (still in Sheffield). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vague_Boy Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Are you so blind that you do not wish to see? Wednesday1 sees only what is ideologically useful. NuLabour trolls have very selective vision (and memories). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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