British Steel: 1986 Constituent Companies
From Graces Guide
1986 Main companies owned by British Steel:
| Business | Products | Works |
| Strip Product Group | ||
| BSC Strip Mill Products | Hot rolled coils and sheets, hot rolled plates, cold reduced coils and sheets, electro-zinc and hot-dipped gavnanised coils and sheets, plastic coated and pre-painted coils and sheets | Ravenscraig, Llanwern, Port Talbot, Ebbw Vale, Shotton, Bryngwyn, Newton Aycliffe, Tafarnaubach |
| Electrical Steels | Electrical steels | Cookley, Orb |
| Whitehead (Narrow Strip) Ltd | Narrow strip, fabricated products, pressings and fabrication | Whitehead, Landore |
| BSC Tinplate | Tinplate, blackplate and electro-coated chromium steel | Ebbw Vale, Trostre, Valindre |
| General Steels Group | ||
| BSC Sections, BSC Commercial Steels | Commercial billets and bars, heavy medium and light sections, piling flats, colliery arches, foundry iron and ferro-manganese | Redcar / Lackenby, Skinningrove, Cleveland, Jarrow, Appleby-Frodingham, Shelton |
| BSC Plates | Plates, large diameter pipes up to 44in diameter | Clydebridge, Dalzell, Hartlepool |
| BSC Brinsworth Strip Mills | Hot and cold rolled strip | Brinsworth |
| BSC Tubes | ||
| Welded Tubes | Welded tubes and pipes up to 20in diameter. Large diameter welded tubes up to 84in diameter | Corby, Hartlepool, Coombs Wood, Stockton |
| Seamless Tubes | Seamless tubes up to 457mm. diameter | Clydesdale, Imperial, Calder, Bromford |
| BSC Tubes Stockholding Ltd | Commercial tubes | UK Network |
| BSC Holdings | ||
| BSC Stainless | Stainless steel slabs, plate, sheet, coil and precision strip | Shepcote Lane, Tinsley Park, Stocksbridge, Panteg |
| BSC Forges, Foundries and Engineering | Ingot moulds and bottom plates, general iron castings | Dowlais, Fullwood, Renishaw |
| BSC Cumbria | Railway track and products, general engineering machinery | Workington |
| Fox Wire Ltd, Stocksbridge Precision Strip and Tinsley Bridge Ltd | Carbon and stainless steel strip, razor strip, hardened and tempered strip, light and heavy springs. Coil and laminated allow and stainless steel wire | Stocksbridge, Tinsley Park |
| Railway and Ring Rolled Products Ltd | Railway materials, ring rolled and forged products | Rotherham, Trafford Park |
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Sources of Information
- [1] Competition Commission report, chapter 3.