Editing Scunthorpe (section)

===Steel industry===
{{Main|Scunthorpe Steelworks}}

[[File:Scunthorpe-blast-furnaces-by-Alan-Murray-Rust.jpg|thumb|Scunthorpe steelworks (2006)]]

The Iron industry in Scunthorpe was established in the mid 19th century, following the discovery and exploitation of middle Lias ironstone east of Scunthorpe. Initially iron ore was exported to iron producers in [[South Yorkshire]]. Later, after the construction of the [[Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway]] (1860s) gave rail access to the area iron production in the area rapidly expanded using local ironstone and imported coal or coke. Rapid industrial expansion in the area led directly to the development of the town of Scunthorpe, eventually incorporating several other former hamlets and villages, in a formerly sparsely populated entirely agricultural area.

From the early 1910s to the 1930s the industry consolidated, with three main ownership concerns formed – the [[Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company]], part of the [[United Steel Companies]]; the [[Redbourn Iron Works]], part of [[Richard Thomas and Company]] of South Wales (later [[Richard Thomas and Baldwins]]); and [[John Lysaght and Co.|John Lysaght]]'s [[Normanby Iron Works]], part of [[Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds]].

In 1967 all three works became part of the nationalised [[British Steel Corporation]] (BSC), leading to a period of further consolidation – from the 1970s the use of local or regional ironstone diminished, being replaced by imported ore via the [[Immingham Bulk Terminal]]. Conversion to the [[Linz-Donawitz process]] (or "basic oxygen" process) of steel making from the [[open hearth process]] took place from the late 1960s onwards and was complete by the 1990s. Both the Normanby Park and the Redbourn works closed in the early 1980s.

Following privatisation in 1988 the company, together with the rest of BSC, became part of [[Corus Group plc|Corus]] (1999), later [[Tata Steel Europe]] (2007). In 2016 the [[long products]] division of Tata Steel Europe was sold to [[Greybull Capital]] with Scunthorpe as the primary steel production site.

In May 2019, after a drop in future orders,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-death-of-british-steel-and-the-myth-of-the-good-brexit|title=The Death of British Steel and the Myth of the Good Brexit|last=Knight|first=Sam|magazine=The New Yorker|date=10 July 2019|access-date=8 August 2019|issn=0028-792X}}</ref> and a breakdown in rescue talks between the government and the company's owner, Greybull, [[British Steel Limited]] entered insolvency.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48365241|title=British Steel collapse threatens 5,000 jobs|work=BBC News|date=22 May 2019|access-date=8 August 2019}}</ref>

Industries associated with the steelworks include metal engineering as well as a [[The BOC Group|BOC]] plant.