Corus

Corus Steel is the UK's leading supplier of structural steel and steel for cladding, roofing, and other construction purposes. Corus has been formed from the merger of British Steel and Koninklijke Hoogovens to create a global metals company with manufacturing plants across Europe and in North America. The turnover in 1999 was £9.6 billion with 66,000 employees. Corus supplies carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminium and has a very strong market focus in the automotive, transport, construction, engineering and packaging sectors. The development strategy is focused upon supplying innovative customer specific metals applications solutions derived from the technological skills of the company.

The company currently has over 1000 people employed at four research centres (three in the UK and one in The Netherlands) encompassing the full range of scientific disciplines with an extremely strong emphasis upon the properties and use of both steel and aluminium. Swinden Technology Centre is a 17 acre site that has been developed as a research centre since 1951. It currently has about 400 staff and has an international reputation for all aspects concerned with the understanding of steel behaviour and use. A particular strength is the knowledge of structural integrity, both its application and science in which it has been a leading exponent for many years.

Evolve EB work in partnership with Corus to apply the LCF strategy within the North Lincolnshire area by distributing Landfill Tax Credit funding generated through Corus at their Scunthorpe site.