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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Czech energy group hints at combined bid for British Steel and Speciality Steel UK

White-hot liquid steel pours out of furnace machinery
Steel production at the electric arc steelworks in Cardiff, which Sev.en bought from the Spanish group Celsa. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/Athena Pictures

The owner of the UK’s largest electric steelworks has said the government should find a single buyer for British Steel and Speciality Steel UK (SSUK), a move that would create the country’s biggest steelmaker.

Sev.en Global Investments, owned by the Czech billionaire Pavel Tykač, said it not only plans to invest £100m in the UK – mainly in the electric arc steelworks in Cardiff it bought last year – but also has the ability to invest “hundreds of millions of pounds” more in Britain under its 7 Steel brand.

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