Redcar steelworks furnace demolished
24 November 2022
Demolition specialist Thompsons of Prudhoe has brought down the 111 m (365 ft) tall blast furnace at the SSI Redcar steelworks in the north of England
The Redcar Blast Furnace. (Photo: Teesworks)
The Redcar blast furnace - which was built in 1979 and was once said to be the second largest of its kind in Europe - had been in operation for nearly a century but closed in 2015 after the site’s owner Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK entered liquidation.
It was demolished yesterday (Wednesday 23 November, 2022) via a controlled explosion that incorporated the furnace’s associated casting houses, charge conveyors and dust catcher.
The blow down is the latest of a number of major demolition works to be carried out at the site, which is being redeveloped to form part of a 1,821 ha (4,500 acre) manufacturing hub.
While the site’s Sinter Plant was taken down in August, last month saw Thompsons use 1.6 t of explosives to carry out the demolition of the Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) plant (part of SSI Redcar steelworks).
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