Redcar Blast Furnace New Cat 990H , 988 , 953 , 336

[XS650]

Following on from a previous thread, amazingly after Corus shut the steelmaking facility on Teesside a Thai firm SSI bought it and will be re igniting the furnace very soon , to work the blast they've brought in new CAT gear , They all will all have a hard life handling slag and rejected molten steel , and the danger of going up in flames is very real when loaders working on the molten slag !

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[Ross]

The 990 looks sharp. Gonna be some paint missing soon.

Are Multiserve still on site? What about the Kress Slab carriers?

Great news that Redcar steel works are firing back up. Real good for Redcar & Boro.

Have some great memory's from the place. Watching them pour steel into the trains (remote control trains) then the pour in the works. Everywhere on site is interesting. Everything on site is huge. The mouth of the Tees is real deep, av seen some HUGE iron ore ships docked in the North end. Get more pics mate.

PS: What's that in the background in the last pic? Like I said. Interesting place!

[argie]

Not too sure but a rumour is that Tarmac are in there. The machines have been supplied by Chepstow plant.
Paul

[IBH]

Not too sure but a rumour is that Tarmac are in there. The machines have been supplied by Chepstow plant.
Paul

Tarmac supply steel slag and blast furnace slag as Secondary Aggregates, so that could explain their involvement in the site.
http://www.tarmac.co.uk/products_and_services/aggregates/artificial_aggregates.aspx

Also Hargreaves Services have won the contract to supply coal and coke to the SSI and the Redcar works and their new Surface Mining Division has plans afoot to open three surface coal mines in the North East.

[argie]

Well done IBH! Yet again, the font of all knowledge comes up with the goods!
I knew I had heard it somewhere that Tarmac had employed Chepstow at the steel works!
Paul

[XS650]

Thoughtfully they swapped parking spaces 988 and 990H at the weekend, these shovels don't look that big in this environment of massive structures.
I think all the silver 'gas' bottles are fire fighting gear.

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[XS650]

i know some of you like trains They are also getting new bigger locomotives , these are Siemens NSB Di8 Bo-Bos locos ten of bought 2nd hand from Norway , they are going to replace the old GEC 6w DE' s 75te. locos which are all going to be tossed into the furnace apparently !
This a new one is in its natural lair beneath the Redcar blast furnace -

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