CELSA Group is a multinational group of steel companies headquartered in Spain, mainly in the industry of steel reinforcement or
rebar
Rebar (short for reinforcing bar), known when massed as reinforcing steel or reinforcement steel, is a steel bar used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and aid the concrete under tension. ...
.
History
It was formed in 1967 as the Compañía Española de Laminación. Competitors of the company include
Salzgitter AG
Salzgitter AG is a German company, one of the largest steel producers in Europe with an annual output of around seven million tonnes.
With over 100 subsidiaries and associated companies, the Group is structured in five divisions – Steel, T ...
, of
Salzgitter
Salzgitter (; Eastphalian: ''Soltgitter'') is an independent city in southeast Lower Saxony, Germany, located between Hildesheim and Braunschweig. Together with Wolfsburg and Braunschweig, Salzgitter is one of the seven ''Oberzentren'' of Lower ...
in Germany.
Structure
It is headquartered in
Castellbisbal
Castellbisbal () is a municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is ...
in Spain. It is composed of eight main
steel companies, across Europe.
Celsa Steel UK
GB Railfreight No.08924/Celsa No.2 shunts steel wagons at Celsa Steel UK, Cardiff
Celsa Steel UK is in
Cardiff
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, and is the UK's largest manufacturer of steel reinforcement products. In November 2015, two people died at its Cardiff manufacturing site on East Moors Road.
During the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, the UK government provided Celsa Steel UK with a £30 million bailout to help it continue trading providing it met a set of conditions. This made it the first company to receive a loan through the government's financial support scheme known as
Project Birch.
Since 2010, the plant has used
GB Railfreight
GB Railfreight (GBRf) is a rail freight company in the United Kingdom. As of 2022, it is owned by the global investment company M&G, Infracapital.
GB Railfreight was established in April 1999 as the rail freight operating subsidiary of the tra ...
for freight services.
This includes both incoming supply of scrap steel, outgoing finished products, as well as on-site shunting services using remotely-controlled
British Rail Class 08 locomotives, supplemented by sub-contract locomotive supply from
Harry Needle Railroad Company
The Harry Needle Railroad Company (HNRC) is a railway spot-hire company, based at Barrow Hill Engine Shed in Derbyshire. Prior to 2010 the company also recovered valuable spares from scrapped railway vehicles, either on the vehicle owners site, ...
.
See also
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Community (trade union)
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Ferrous metal recycling
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References
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1967 establishments in Spain
Manufacturing companies established in 1967
Multinational companies headquartered in Spain
Steel companies of Spain
Structural steel
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