The UK’s steel industry is in transition, with blast furnaces giving way to electric arc furnaces.
Tata Steel closed the blast furnaces at Port Talbot in 2024 to build an electric arc furnace, and British Steel operates at Scunthorpe. Most of the companies listed here are in London.
2.6 Mt in 2025 (4.0 Mt in 2024)
9.7 Mt of finished steel in 2025 (9.2 Mt in 2024)
Source: worldsteel, World Steel in Figures 2026. More figures on Steel statistics.
Who sets standards in the UK, the main steel standards, and product marking in Great Britain.
BSI, the British Standards Institution, is the UK’s national standards body and its member of ISO.
Sources: BSI · ISO — national member
BS 4449:2005+A3:2016 specifies ribbed weldable reinforcing steel for concrete, in bar, coil and decoiled product.
Source: BSI Knowledge — BS 4449
Hot-rolled structural steels are supplied to BS EN 10025; Part 2 (2019) covers the non-alloy grades and is used with Part 1 for products under the Construction Products Regulation.
Construction products placed on the market in Great Britain may carry either the UKCA mark or the CE mark.
Source: GOV.UK — Construction products regulation in Great Britain
The standards bodies on our steel grades & standards page: BSI.
Contractors · Design - Engineering · Consultants · Basingstoke
Local Steel Mills · Steel Mills - Agents & Traders · Tube Manufacturer · Stockist - Distributor · London
Listed companies that name the product on their profile.
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