Announcement that production will be focused in Rotherham latest sign of struggles in Sanjeev Gupta’s metals group
Liberty Steel has announced plans to cut 200 jobs in the UK at plants in South Yorkshire and the West Midlands, in the latest sign of the struggles facing the industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s metals group.
The company said on Friday that it would cut 160 jobs at a plant in Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, and 45 in West Bromwich in the West Midlands as it focused production on another plant in Rotherham, also in South Yorkshire.
