Steel Plant produces again
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Steel production at the former Alphasteel plant in Newport has resumed.
Mir Steel UK said 80 employees began a partial re-start on Monday and the firm had plans to take staff numbers to 140, dependent on demand and orders.
Union Community said it would be a “bittersweet moment” for former workers who tried to keep the site going.
Around 400 workers were sent home days before Christmas 2007 when the site’s former owners went into administration.
The hot strip mill at the plant has capacity for a million tonnes a year.
In May, the new Russian owners, who renamed the new company Mir Steel UK, advertised in The Argus newspaper that it wanted to create up to 100 new jobs in the site by the end of the year.