Steel maker to halt production for a week
Production at Tata Steel’s tinplate works in Trostre, Wales, will stop for one week next month.
More than 700 staff will be deployed to other areas like maintenance and training.
The stop in production means that 9,000 tonnes of tinned packaging will not be manufactured.
The company said it has to realign capacity with demand because the stocks of its customers are full.
A spokesman for Tata told BBC Wales: “This is quite significant because Trostre has been going flat out for the past 18 months. We have been weathering a prolonged storm.”
Other facilities in Wales, which include Port Talbot and Llanwern, will not cease production. Tata is the biggest private employer in Wales with around 7,500 staff.
