The day Port Talbot turned off its cloud machine ☁️

Coke was produced for the last time ever in the UK on Wednesday 20 March at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot plant in South Wales.
Tata Steel UK has now officially begun the decommissioning of its Morfa Coke Ovens after almost half a century of coke production in Port Talbot.
Works Manager Dean Cartwright said: “All things must come to an end, and while this reality is difficult to digest, today, the plant’s deteriorating performance has given us no choice but to cease operations at the ovens and its adjoining By-Products plant.”
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[@kentonsimons4343]

Thanks for making and posting this guys, what a sad day. A professional, passionate team to the end; you can see the emotion in everyone. RIP Morfa Coke.

[@izalman]

Slain by the by the green goblin... So we still need coke, the CO2 emissions will be someone else's problem now. Has the coal stockpile been consumed totally and all converted into coke.

[@harryshepherd4232]

Thousands of jobs being lost. The football interview-style questions and (particularly) answers were extremely surreal.

[@kevfrombutterley]

A sad day for British industry.

[@dazzlemedicated]

Well done to all involved. As always TATA Steel’s priority is people’s safety.

[@user-vl5ye1sn3v]

Such a huge Irony in Indian Billionaires buying up the once mighty British owned Steel industry..........

[@user-vl5ye1sn3v]

HUGE MISTAKE closing these down, China is building Coke Based Blast Furnaces for Steel Making that use low cost Australian Coking Coal. Electric Blast Furnaces need vast quantities of expensive Electricity, the days of the proposed Electric Blast Furnace are already numbered as the Green Fantasy drives up Electricity prices to where there will be no Steel industry in Britain.

[@nidheeshkumar6760]

All your parties are adamant on net zero what did you expect