Corus has unveiled its £ 90 million investment in its specialist steels plant at Rotherham which produces steel as a part of Corus' restructuring of its South Yorkshire engineering steel operations. The restructuring program includes investments designed to keep CES at the cutting edge of manufacturing technology, with a highly competitive position amongst its European rivals.

The new facility at Corus Engineering Steels CES was officially opened by The Princess Royal. The Princess last visited the site in 1989, when she officially opened the £76m Aldwarke bloom caster investments and back in 1976 she also opened the Thrybergh bar mill.

CES is one of the largest producers of engineering steels in Europe and has an annual turnover of £600m with manufacturing facilities at Rotherham, Stocksbridge North West of Sheffield and Wednesbury in the West Midlands.
A total of 1.1 million tonnes of engineering steels are produced annually on the Rotherham site, from two large electric arc furnaces. The molten steel is subsequently cast and then later reheated and rolled to steel billets and bars in a wide range of specifications, shapes and dimensions.

It exports more than half its product mainly to Europe, North America and China where it is used in the automotive industry for engines, gearboxes and suspension of cars and trucks and in the oil and gas industry and for power station turbines.