Hundreds of manufacturing jobs were plunged into jeopardy today as Liberty Steel announced a fresh wave of cuts.
A total of 440 roles are under threat as the firm plans to mothball its site at West Bromwich in the West Midlands, and stop producing steel at its plant in Newport, South Wales.
Operations at Rotherham, South Yorks, will be scaled back as the firm turns its “focus on high value alloy steel production at Speciality Steel UK sites in Rotherham, Stocksbridge and Brinsworth”.