Redcar Blast Furnace demolition: Watch moment as part of old SSI steelworks is blown up with explosives

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Watch the moment Redcar's old SSI steelworks blast furnace is demolished - the end of an era

Last month the basic oxygen and pulverised coal injection plants on the site were taken down.

In the next few weeks the four stoves that heated the blast furnace will also be demolished to make way for a new industrial zone that will focus on creating thousands of jobs in sectors including green energy. Their removals will completely change Redcar’s skyline.In its day, the furnace, built in 1979, could prodice 10,000 tonnes of iron daily and members of its former workforce were invited to see it come down.

“We can never understate how much the steelworks site has defined Teesside’s history and shaped our communities, but I’ve always been clear we need to look to the future to create new jobs on this site that will employ generations of local people, just as the steelworks once did. We will never forget our past – but from it we are building a new future.”Redcar MP Jacob Young said: “I always said today would be a day of mixed emotions.

 

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