A new steel distribution centre has opened on Teesside to provide a faster and more efficient service for the construction industry.
Tata Steel has invested £3.1 million to create the new facility, which is located on the company’s Lackenby site, adjacent to its Teesside Beam Mill.
The opening of the centre has already led to the creation of 30 new jobs, which have been filled by Tata Steel employees redeployed from the company’s Teesside Beam Mill and Steelpark distribution centre in Wednesfield, West Midlands. Further jobs could be created within the new facility in the future if improved market conditions lead to the centre handling larger volumes of steel products.
The new centre will be responsible for managing and distributing around 100,000 tonnes of the company’s construction steel stock from the Teesside Beam Mill, the sections mill in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, and Tata Steel’s tubes mills in Corby, Northamptonshire.
Director of the new facility, Rob Ridge, said: “The steel was previously transported to our