UK sets targets to boost steel making and cut imports

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There are 1,160 businesses in the UK steel industry, directly supporting 40,000 other firms, according to government figures., external Tata Steel at Port Talbot in Wales was once the UK’s largest virgin steel producer but it turned off its blast furnace in September 2024, saying it was losing £1.7m a day. An agreement with the…