"This rewards the skilled workforce in Hartlepool who are not only showing steelmaking can survive in the UK but that it is still a profitable core industry.
“I am equally pleased to hear that Tata Steel will be investing £1 million in their remaining Tube Mill in Hartlepool to increase its capability to make high-strength steel tubes, reiterating their commitment to the UK business and their 270 Hartlepool employees.
"The government must now look to make significant investments to secure the UK as a world leader in the research, development and production of speciality metals - and, as I have called for many times, what better place to do that than right here on Teesside".
