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Dalzell investment needed to reforge the steel industry, says union
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GOVERNMENT investment could turn Britain’s last plate steel mill into a world-leading producer of wind turbine components, the steelworkers’ trade union Community said today.

The Dalzell steelworks has dominated the Motherwell skyline for more than 150 years and has come to specialise in producing the high-quality heavy steel plate required by industry and essential to military shipbuilding.

Now the union has called for renewed investment in the Liberty Steel-owned site to deliver a modernisation of the works, making the most of its “huge strategic importance and potential.”

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