By: Rithika Siddhartha
BRITISH Indian industrialist Sanjeev Gupta invited Prince Charles to reignite a furnace in northern England which had been mothballed by Tata Steel, its previous owners. The N-Furnace at Liberty Speciality Steels in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is an electric arc furnace which forms part of a multi-million-pound investment by Gupta’s Liberty House Group. It is the larger of the Rotherham plant’s two electric arc furnaces mothballed by Tata Steel in 2015. Switching this furnace back on is “a pivotal moment in the revival of UK steelmaking and we are very pleased His Royal Highness is able to share this hugely symbolic…
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