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Steel relighting is a welcome beacon of good news

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It is good to see this milestone. But what I find frustrating is that nowadays it always takes foreign companies to make the investment risk, to make a success of british manufacturing. Look at Land Rover in Coventry, Nissan in Sunderland, Mini in Cowley, SABIC building new polyethylene production at Wilton, now SSI at Redcar, and all the ex-ICI companies that are now foreign owned and have made big investments in the UK - the list is endless. Why is it that UK companies don't have the foresight, drive or risk-taking initiative to make these investments? Why does it take foreign money and initiative to make a success of UK manufacturing? And should we be concerned about this? Well done SSI, but another black mark against UK industrial and financial leadership

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19 Apr 2012

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9:45 am

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