Sheffield produces more steel than ever before?

[Nagel]

We need the numbers, where are the numbers?

[Grandad.Malky]

We need the numbers, where are the numbers?

 

And we need to know what you are measuring.

[Nagel]

And we need to know what you are measuring.

 

All I want to see are figures for steel production per year for Sheffield, going back till say 1960.

[Mecky]

It's not the fact that more steel is produced here, that's just the Tory adage of more money for the very few. Look at Sheffield now, it's just a city full of second hand shops and coffee bars; it's pathetic. People want real jobs and steel was what kept people in work on decent money that helps the economy to grow.

[alchresearch]

We probably do produce more steel,its technology isn't it.

 

Wouldn't it be metallurgy?

[Grandad.Malky]

All I want to see are figures for steel production per year for Sheffield, going back till say 1960.

 

Its not as simple as that, Ford produce more cars than Rolls-Royce, that doesn’t tell you much does it.

 

Comments like the one below from Wiki are meaningless if we don’t now if we are comparing like with like.

 

 

The steel industry now concentrates on more specialist steel-making and, despite appearances, currently produces more steel per year than at any other time in its history. However, the industry is now less noticeable as it has become highly automated and employs far fewer staff than in the past. Today the economy is worth over £7 billion a year.

[Hots on]

It's not the fact that more steel is produced here, that's just the Tory adage of more money for the very few. Look at Sheffield now, it's just a city full of second hand shops and coffee bars; it's pathetic. People want real jobs and steel was what kept people in work on decent money that helps the economy to grow.

 

I share your sentiments, I think its sad too, It must have been great when Sheffield was employing all those thousands of people to produce the steel, but we have to get real, in a global market place, other countries started producing steel more efficiently than Sheffield was, with less people and better technology.

[Grandad.Malky]

other countries started producing steel more efficiently than Sheffield was, with less people and better technology.

 

Is that why places like India and China bought our old machinery If you pay people a bowl of rice a day its no supprice that you can reduce your overheads.

[Mecky]

I share your sentiments, I think its sad too, It must have been great when Sheffield was employing all those thousands of people to produce the steel, but we have to get real, in a global market place, other countries started producing steel more efficiently than Sheffield was, with less people and better technology.

 

The only sad part is that business is more concerned of making profits for the shareholders rather than the welfare of the economy and workeforce.

[mj.scuba]

Didn't some foreign companies buy UK companies simply to "buy the order book" and then fulfill those orders with their existing production facilities? It's something I've heard many times but never been too sure how true it was.