Tata Steel is ramping up activity at one of its key Teesside facilities.
The £8.5m Teesside Service Centre, built in 2012, is the global steel producers’ UK structural steel distribution site and sets an industry “benchmark” according to the company.
Bosses want the facility, which is next to the Teesside Beam Mill, to surpass its 170,000 tonnes a year capacity after installing the last of the new processing equipment due on site.
Increasing customer demand has led to the upgrades at the centre, which is the only steel sections processing facility in the UK that is backed up by production capability next door.
Products made at the centre serve building and infrastructure projects from new schools, hospitals, sports complexes and large-scale distribution depots to the iconic buildings that have transformed London’s skyline in recent years.
Indian-based Tata Steel employs about 1,500 staff at its Teesside sites in Redcar, Hartlepool and Skinningrove,
The company’s European operations recorded profits of £360m for 2013-14, on the back of major losses the previous year.
The Teesside Service Centre, which is based around an existing warehouse on the Redcar plant site, was specially designed for Tata Steel’s UK sections distribution activities.
The breadth and depth of the stock range now available ensures that Tata Steel is better placed to service customer inquiries.
The latest developments have involved opening up another warehouse, and installing a high-specification shot-blaster and new heavy sections sawing capacity to reduce handling time and costs.
Ian Beveridge, Tata Steel’s director of construction structures, said: “We have established Teesside Service Centre to be able to offer customers a uniquely flexible service.
“The location at the end of a mill production line gives customers the option of buying ex-rolling or ex-stock.
“Furthermore, the investments we’ve made in logistics, new handling and processing equipment mean we’re able to offer a product and delivery service with unrivalled speed and efficiency.
“That all adds up to Teesside Service Centre being the leading distribution facility in the UK and the benchmark in our industry.”
The centre employs 94 people and is also responsible for managing and distributing steel from the Teesside Beam Mill, as well as Tata Steel’s sections mill in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, and the company’s tubes mills in Corby, Northamptonshire.
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