Redcar steel plant: 'Biggest demolition' of its kind in 75 years

Name: Redcar steel plant: 'Biggest demolition' of its kind in 75 years
Uploaded: 2022-10-01T16:03:28.000Z
Duration: 45 s
Description: Up to 1.6 tonnes of explosives were used to level the 65m (213ft) structure.

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A building on the site of a former steelworks has been brought down in what is thought to be one of the largest single explosive demolition operations in the UK in 75 years.

The Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) Plant in Redcar refined molten iron from the blast furnace, until the works closed in 2015.

'Biggest demolition' of its kind in decades at works

1 October 2022