Liberty Steel Group announces that it has been named preferred buyer for Bayou Steel Group, the US producer of structural steel and merchant bar bit.ly/2SoZE8P

Liberty Steel Group is looking to the future as it launches its apprenticeship application for 2020/21. Degree apprentice Dylan Sanderson and mechanical apprentice graduate Josh White discuss life working and training at Liberty bit.ly/39X4tMy

A Statement from Liberty Steel Group on COVID-19 bit.ly/39bWTga #coronavirus #COVID19

LIBERTY Steel Group today announces the formation of a new board of directors as it completes the consolidation of its global businesses bit.ly/3eqdccM

Liberty Steel Group’s Hartlepool pipes mill has landed major US and Caspian contracts in what is the largest order the mill has received since Liberty took ownership in 2017 bit.ly/2ROtLFB

Accles & Pollock, the precision metal tubular assembly business has won the International Trade category in the prestigious @TheQueensAwards for Enterprise 2020 bit.ly/2xNzBjZ #queensawards

With many of the country’s male steelworkers conscripted to the armed forces, it was left to the country’s women – some of whom were wives, girlfriends and sisters of those workers – to keep our steel mills running and producing parts vital to the war effort [2/3] #VEDay #VEDay75

These women took up many positions at Clydebridge and Dalzell including crane driving, and lathe turning. Steel from both mills was used in the construction of the Vanguard battleship and aircraft carrier Theseus [3/3] #VEDay #VEDay75

GFG’s Liberty Steel mill in Newport was preceded by an aluminium works owned by the British Aluminium company. The picture below shows an air reconnaissance photograph taken by the Luftwaffe during WWII next to Liberty’s steel mill today (credit google earth). #VEDay #VEDay75

How did GFG’s famous Midlands-based metal tubes business Accles & Pollock end up in Wales? Newtown historian Brian Poole was interviewed by BBC Wales in 2011 about the true story of the covert Air Ministry shadow factory that was built in the town in 1940. [1/3] #VEDay #VEDay75

Foremen from Liberty’s Accles & Pollock business in Oldbury were brought into the factory to marshal a workforce of several thousand predominantly local women to make tubular steel that was sent to aircraft assembly lines. [2/3] #VEDay #VEDay75

Other components for the Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft were produced at the factory along with rifle barrels for the Sten submachine gun. Read more here: ow.ly/6CJs50zyoIM [3/3] #VEDay #VEDay75

Pictured below is Jimmy Batchen, an employee of British Aluminium’s Lochaber smelter and hydropower plant, with an unexploded 500kg bomb that was dropped by the Luftwaffe on the power house shortly before 9am on 22 December 1940. [1/3] #VEDay #VEDay75

Jimmy, who was reading instruments in the power house when the bomb hit, was hurt by flying debris but fortunately lived to tell the tale. [2/3] #VEDay #VEDay75

Germany’s reconnaissance and eventual bombing of the smelter reflected its importance to Britain’s war effort. Lochaber produced 35,000 tonnes of aluminium per year for use in aircraft production, armaments and ships under the Ministry of Supply. [3/3] #VEDay #VEDay75

Together with Trade Unions, we have today published updated safe working guidance, drawing upon the sector’s experience of operating safely these last 2 months. We’ll ensure steel sites continue leading the way on H&S as we gradually exit lockdown. bit.ly/3bwXhqM

LIBERTY Steel Group has today announced the appointment of Paramjit Kahlon as CEO, Primary Steel and Integrated Mining, LIBERTY Steel Group bit.ly/3cMjB0Q