Issue 3 - October 2008

SA13
Issue 3 • October 2008
News for the community
Chronicles of
Margam Castle
Iron and steelmaking
– the process
BOS gas recovery –
won’t waste away
Trick or Treat?
Win with our
wordsearch
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GENERAL NEWS
Dear resident
Your letters
Thank you to all those readers who have dropped us a line.
I am pleased that SA13 is still being received with interest.
The last issue did go out quite late so hopefully we are
back on track now.
After such a miserable summer, with so many outdoor activities
having to be cancelled, here we are into autumn already. As the
leaves begin to turn colour and drop, and the clocks go back, we
are probably all thinking, "Where has the year gone!"
The shorter daylight hours mean that everyone should be just that
little bit more cautious and considerate when driving. Watch out for
pedestrians and especially children on their way to and from school,
and allow those extra few minutes in your journey for the unexpected.
We had a very positive
response to the last issue of
SA13 – we’ve reprinted some
of the emails we received from
Port Talbot residents.
If you would like to write to the Editor, the contact details
are on the back page. Your full name, postcode and a contact
telephone number or email address should be provided for
purposes of verification. Please keep letters as short as possible
(preferably fewer than 200 words) to maximise the chances of your
letter being included in the newsletter. The Editor reserves the right
to edit letters for reasons of space, clarity or grammar.
For some people, Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night are great fun, but for
others they are not. Some residents, especially the more mature
amongst us, dread the knock of the more unsociable 'trick or
treaters', so just keep a friendly 'eye' on your neighbours to see they
are okay. Incidents of burns on Bonfire Night, although fewer than
years ago, are still too many. Stay vigilant, safe and obey the
'Firework Code' at all times.
Dear Sir,
November is a busy month for Corus in the community as once
again we are working with Swansea Sound and The Wave to highlight
Anti-Bullying Week in the region. As we lead up to Christmas, we are
delighted to be sponsoring the Christmas Lights and Santa's Parades
in Port Talbot, Neath and Pontadawe, beginning on 14 November.
Mr WJ Hanford
I found SA13 a very good newspaper for the community and the
residents who live outside the gate areas of the Works. It is good to
see Corus starting to clean up the environmental issues around the
Works areas. Keep up the good work on the newspaper – I would
like to see issue 3 when it comes out.
Dear Sir,
Until the next edition of SA13, be safe and enjoy the festivities.
Keith Farron, Editor SA13
Having been handed a copy of the above newsletter I found it very
informative and interesting. I note that it was the second issue
(delivered in the Mariners Point area) but I would respectfully point
out that as far as my address is concerned I have received neither
issue. Can you kindly arrange for me to receive future copies?
Mr G Cooper
Dear Mr Cooper,
Thank you for your email correspondence of 14 September.
Contents
EU Emissions Trading Scheme
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- Tracking energy and evironmental
challenges in Europe
Not just a burden to everyone
- The iron and steelmaking process
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BOS gas recovery
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Trick or Treat?
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Thank you for taking the trouble to bring this matter to our attention
and we hope your approval will continue with future editions.
Kind regards
- Stay safe this Hallowe’en
Corus in the community
I am a little concerned that your address has missed the first two
deliveries of SA13. Corus has an arrangement with a private
distribution company to deliver this news magazine to all
households in SA12 and SA13 postal districts. I thank you for
bringing this to our attention and will be pleased to raise this query
at the next meeting with the distributor. We were late putting out
the July edition and I know that holidays had an impact on
deliveries being late to some areas, but to not receive the earlier
edition as well is of concern. It will be looked into.
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Get fruity with our latest competition
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Contact us
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Keith Farron
Manager Community Relations
Cover image
Not quite an image from the
Chronicles of Narnia, but a view of
Margam Castle from the Priory.
GENERAL NEWS
MEP visit focuses on
energy and environment
Eluned Morgan, Member of the European Parliament for
Wales, learned how CSP UK is facing up to energy and
environmental challenges, during a recent visit to the Port
Talbot Works.
Ms Morgan saw firsthand how the BOS energy recovery project should
enable the business to take a vital step towards self-sufficiency in
energy – and also reduce the plant’s carbon emissions.
She saw how the site’s greening project is not just a ‘beautification’
project but plays a practical part in reducing dust. Equally she learned
how the business is linking with local residents, the local authorities
and the Welsh Assembly Government to tackle energy and
environmental issues – and communicate progress through the press
and more locally via SA13 community newspaper.
Lianne Deeming, Director of Process Development, says: “Ms Morgan
not only represents Wales in the European Parliament, but she plays an
important part in developing European
Union policy on energy and the
environment.”
Lianne continues: “Energy costs have
increased dramatically and are set to soar
in the future, and the future of the European
Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (see
below) is crucial to the competitiveness of
the South Wales steel industry.”
Eluned Morgan MEP visiting the
Work’s Energy Control Centre.
Lianne Deeming.
What is the EU Emissions
Trading Scheme (ETS)?
This is a major pillar of European climate change policy. The
EU ETS is the largest multinational strategy to manage and
reduce CO2 emissions. It is important to the steel industry
because we are a major emitter of the greenhouse gas.
The scheme requires the EU’s large emitters to monitor and report their
CO2 emissions, and they are obliged to surrender an amount of
emission allowances to the Government that is equivalent to their
emissions during the year. These allowances are set in advance for a
sequence of years – known as a trading period. The first of these
ended last year and since January we have been in the second phase,
which lasts until 2012.
Currently, installations such as Port Talbot receive their allocation for
free from the UK Government, but in the event of a shortfall may
purchase allocations from other operators (including other Corus sites).
This year, the EU has proposed some changes effective from 2013 –
the inclusion of more greenhouse gases within the scheme, allocations
to be made centrally by the EU, and a much greater share of
allocations to be auctioned, ie, some participants may have to buy up
to 100% of their allocation.
Corus does recognise the important job the scheme is trying to do and
we support its aims by liaising with the EU to explain where and how
emissions may be reduced – with or without new technology. Thus,
Corus shares the EU’s commitment to tackle the climate change issue,
but at the same time recognises that we must maintain our
competitiveness. Whilst the EU is playing a leading role in this issue, it is
also vital to obtain a robust and enforceable global agreement – to
secure the sustainability of the Welsh, UK and European steel industries.
Further information is available online at:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment
(click on policies/climate change/emissions trading)
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GENERAL INTEREST
Not just a burden
to everyone
In the July issue of SA13, we looked at where Corus sources
its raw materials from and how they are transported from all
over the world to Port Talbot. In this issue, we will try to
explain what happens next in the manufacturing process of
iron and steelmaking.
Weighty! Iron ore conveyor carries five tonnes per metre.
Unloading of vessel.
How's this for size?
No.3 grab used to unload.
Port Talbot’s deep-water
harbour has been
designed to comfortably
accommodate bulk carriers
up to 150,000 tonnes in
weight. Although many of
the visiting vessels are
generally half this size, we
receive regular shipments
by the much larger Cape
Class vessels.
Accommodating such
large vessels on the tides
could be a problem, but
the harbour has a specially
dredged pocket of water
300-metres long by
45-metres wide, to
accommodate vessels with
a 17-metre draught. Hence
its name: ‘deep-water
harbour’. The harbour is
always very busy, with vessels arriving within a day and sometimes
within hours of another leaving. Without such a facility it would be
difficult to compete in today’s global steel market.
Typically, it takes approximately four tonnes of raw materials to make
one tonne of steel, so it does not take a mathematician to work out
that a lot of raw material is used and transported around the site. This
means efficient stock handling and rotation are very important – we
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don’t want to be moving or handling any minerals or raw materials
more than we need to. The same is true in the Works stockyard areas,
where we transport as much as possible using a complex network of
conveyor systems. Just in the stockyard and burden preparation area
alone, we have around 24 miles of conveyor belts to transport raw
materials from the deep-water harbour to each of the two separate
stockyard or burden areas – ore and fluxes, coal and coke, and onto
the sinter plant, blast furnaces and coke ovens.
Iron ore pellets.
Iron rubble.
Flux mineral.
Coke.
GENERAL INTEREST
Simultaneous operations. A barrel reclaimer is skimming iron ore ready for blending (foreground)
whilst the mobile conveyor is stockpiling incoming iron ore pellets direct from the harbour.
Coal being transferred.
At any one time, raw material stocks are required to be maintained at
above minimum operating levels. Within the combined ore and coal
stocking areas, which covers more than two-and-a-half square miles,
the Works is holding more than two million tonnes of stock. This
includes materials already part-processed and blended for the coke
ovens and sinter plant, or for direct injection into the blast furnaces.
Every time stock is handled or moved it will inevitably produce dust.
The weather is also an important factor, especially wind. Airborne dust,
Stockpiling. Note the different colours.
a problem experienced from time to time by residents local to the
Works, receives continuous attention and resources to reduce it to a
minimum within the stockyard area.
To minimise airborne dust, we spray a thin layer of latex over each new
pile of raw material stockpiled in the stockyards. This creates a sort of
‘skin’ that protects the raw materials from the wind. It is used much
more frequently for the finer grained ore minerals and fluxes. Ore
pellets and rubble, which are bigger and heavier, are not usually
affected by the wind as much, so they would not ordinarily be coated.
However, in spells of dry weather (not that we experienced many of
these during the summer), water spraying is introduced on a
regular basis.
Although we can’t get away from having to move raw materials from
one area of the site to another, we do keep these movements to an
absolute minimum. Wherever possible, we use huge trucks so that we
can reduce the number of movements. However, such traffic also has
the capacity to generate airborne dust. Thus, a team of water bowsers
and road sweepers are constantly in operation in the stockyard areas
and throughout the whole site.
Heavy load on the move.
In the next issue, we will look at the manufacturing process
from coal stock to coke making in the coke ovens.
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ENVIRONMENT
BOS gas
recovery
– won’t waste away
In the July issue of SA13, the business outlined plans for
recovering and using the waste BOS gas generated during
the process of converting liquid iron into steel. Having
received formal planning permission from the Council, work
is now under way in earnest.
More than £40 million in orders has been placed with suppliers and
contractors, and amazingly, despite the weather, all civil work remains
on schedule.
CAREERS
New faces,
new impetus
This autumn, Corus warmly welcomed 180 new employees
into the Strip Products UK business across South Wales.
The group of fresh faces all joined under the company’s graduate,
apprentice training and functional trainees programmes. An intake of
this size, the largest for more than a decade, demonstrates the
company’s long-term commitment to business growth.
Early construction of gasholder.
2008 graduate intake.
Competition for places was intense, with almost 5,000 students
expressing an interest in the graduate programme. Out of 900 formal
applications received, 66 applicants were offered graduate scheme
placements at Port Talbot and Llanwern.
During September, the installation of the gasholder got under way,
with the first two tiers of the metal structure in place, and the domed
roof frame started. Preparatory civil and structural work also began
in the Steel Plant for the installation of equipment that will collect
the waste gas as it ascends the flare stacks, and on the gas
distribution pipelines.
In the power plant, conversion work on existing equipment will allow
the burning of gas from the steel plant as a direct replacement for
natural gas. Work is continuing also in the coke oven area to connect
waste gas from here to the Works mains gas network for re-use on site.
The £60-million project is designed to capture and reduce Port Talbot’s
overall CO2 emissions by 240,000 tonnes per year and particulate
emissions by 40 tonnes per annum, whilst reducing the Work’s reliance
on scarcer resources.
On 29 September, the MEP for Wales, Eluned Morgan, and members of
the Environment Agency, visited the project to get a closer look and a
better understanding of the positive impact the project will make (see
page 3).
Apprentices at first induction.
The new graduates received a weeklong induction covering health and
safety policy, teambuilding, and drugs and alcohol awareness. The
business is also welcoming 74 apprentices, all of whom will embark on
CSP UK’s four-year long apprenticeship scheme – widely credited as
being the most comprehensive of its kind in the country. More than
700 applications were submitted for places on the modern
apprenticeship schemes. This year’s intake was very diverse, with
starters recruited into electrical, mechanical, technical and process
control functions as well as riggers, bricklayers, fabricators and welders.
As both employees and students, they began studying at their
respective colleges this autumn. A year from now, each apprentice will
be allocated a position in either Port Talbot or Llanwern Works, taking
the current apprentice population to more than 220 employees.
A further 40 functional trainees joined the workforce in the last couple of
months, demonstrating that Corus continues to be an attractive employer
of choice in the community.
Aerial view of base for waste gasholder.
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To find out more, contact HR Recruitment. Contact details are available
on the back page.
COMMUNITY
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special occasions like New Year,
Diwali and Chinese New Year, when
fireworks can be set off until 1am.
• Anyone caught breaking this curfew
can face fines of up to £5,000, or up
to six months’ imprisonment.
• Shops are banned from selling
fireworks louder than 120 decibels.
• It is an offence for anyone under the
age of 18 to possess fireworks in a
public place.
Be scared – not scarred –
this Bonfire Night!
As one of our community partners, Mid & West Wales
Fire & Rescue Service would like the opportunity to see
the public enjoying themselves on such occasions,
especially at properly organised communal events.
But if you are planning to light fireworks, remember
that by following a few simple rules you can still
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It is a fact that most injuries caused by fireworks are to children
under the age of 16 – that’s a lot of children coping with burn
scars for life. Effectively, fireworks are mini-explosives dressed
up in colourful packaging. They burn at high temperatures and
can cause terrible injuries very quickly, including sparklers, which
can reach 2,000°C - more than 15 times the boiling point of water.
Fireworks are not toys so, wherever possible, always try to go to
a properly organised public display.
If you still want to have a fireworks party at home, you can keep
yourself and your family safe by following the Fireworks Code.
out more about fireworks safety at www.berr.gov.uk/fireworks
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COMMUNITY
Carers in employment
Corus recently hosted a carers’ forum in Port Talbot to
discuss ‘carers in employment’ and find ways of helping these
remarkable people remain in the workplace. The event
attracted wide interest, with representatives from Tesco,
‘Crossroads’, SNAC, Wales Carers, trade unions and Corus
employees, as well as local politicians Dr Brian Gibbons AM
and Dr Hywel Francis MP, a key figure in campaigning on
the subject.
by offering support, counselling, flexible working and generally raising
awareness about the carer’s situation.
The forum involved discussions on individual and group experiences
from every business and agency concerning the type of facilities in
place to assist carers currently, and what they think they could be doing
for carers in the future to be more effective.
Corus recognises the need to be responsive and flexible towards carers
and is currently developing policies based on the implementation and
success of other company schemes to introduce an effective scheme
for Port Talbot employees.
When a carer decides to leave employment to look after a loved one, it
can have a negative impact on their own standard of living, and also
badly affect their employer (who will lose out on their valuable
experience and also have to deal with manpower shortages, etc). The
best outcome is to keep the person in employment for as long as
possible, even if the employer has to become a little more flexible.
Who is a carer?
Someone who, without payment, looks after a relative, friend or
neighbour who could not manage on their own without support. It is
estimated that there are 356,000 carers in Wales, and at some point in
our lives three in five people will become a carer.
The average age of a carer is between 45 and 64, which is also the age
at which experienced employees become most valuable to their
employers. Hence, businesses and agencies ought to be looking for
ways to accommodate the difficult positions in which carers/employees
may find themselves, in which 60% feel they have no option but to
leave work.
Problems facing carers include stress, tiredness, wellbeing, and lack of
time for oneself. The ‘carers in employment’ project aims to assist carers
Participants in the recent Carers Forum, including Dr Hywel
Francis MP (front centre), Eluned Morgan MEP (front right),
Dr Brian Gibbons AM (standing left) and Uday Chaturvedi MD
CSP UK (third from right).
Helping youngsters see
the danger in drugs
Corus is playing a role in steering young people away from
the temptations of drugs and alcohol by expanding its
employee awareness programme into the community.
Nia Davies, who works for Corus Port Talbot’s occupational health team
on drug and alcohol abuse issues, held the sessions at Taibach RFC at
the request of one of the club’s coaches. The aim is to show teenagers
the consequences that alcohol and drugs can have on their lives.
Nia, who is one of three ‘link’ drug and alcohol workers employed by
Corus, arranges awareness sessions for employees and holds one-toone sessions with those who
have signed up to the
company’s drug and alcohol
policy rehabilitation
agreement. She also works in
the community one day a
week with the West
Glamorgan Council on
alcohol and drug abuse.
Nia was approached by Garry
Coombes, who works in
Corus’s concast department
and coaches the company’s
under-16 football team,
about the possibility of her
doing something with the
young people he supports.
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colleague Aled Humphrey –
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who coaches Taibach RFC Under
16s – and lead ‘link’ counsellor Neil Walters, the team arranged
two sessions, one of which saw them use ‘drunk goggles’ to mimic the
feeling people might get after drinking 20 pints of beer!
The youngsters were then split into teams of four and asked to devise a
poster aimed at encouraging young people to address the pressures
they face to misuse substances and the dangers involved. The winning
poster will be displayed locally, with Corus, the Community union and
Taibach RFC and Corus FC donating the prizes.
It is hoped that the sessions will now be rolled out to other age
groups within the clubs, and also within the surrounding area.
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COMMUNITY
And they’re off…
Following the success of
last year’s F1 in Schools
event hosted by Port
Talbot Works, Corus is
once again sponsoring
the South Wales
Competition Finals at the National Waterfront Museum,
Swansea Marina, on 27 November.
Fourteen teams from across South Wales took part in the competition
last year, with overall first place going to a school team from
Carmarthenshire, who went on to compete in the UK National Finals in
the NEC, Birmingham. Disappointingly, last year saw no school entries
from the Neath Port Talbot area. Better luck this year.
The F1 in Schools Formula One Technology Challenge is open to
primary and secondary schools throughout the UK. Teams of students
use CAD/CAM software to design, test and manufacture miniature
CO2-powered balsa wood F1 cars.
A purpose-built 20-metre track was used to test the speed of the
model cars, with the schools taking part last year judged on their
design, engineering development, teamwork and project presentation.
The venue was chosen for its modern design and creates an ideal
backdrop for the competition. Corus also works closely with the
museum and jointly sponsors the ‘Learning Zone’, an education facility
for schools and colleges, with the Community, the trade union.
2007 winners, F1 Kings – Bryn Celynnog School with Nick
Busby, Commercial Manager Automotive, CSP UK.
Local disability sports support
Corus is once again investing £10,000 in a major sports
programme that will see hundreds of Neath Port Talbot
children and young people with disabilities taking part in a
wide range of activities.
As well as giving the youngsters (from primary school age right up to 25)
the opportunity to try a new sport and receive coaching, the six events
will also allow the best performers to progress to competitions at
national level.
The Neath Port Talbot Council Physical Activity and Sports Service
(PASS) programme has been running for three years, with the 2008
schedule concluding in October at the British Wheelchair Sports
Foundation, National Junior Games at Stoke Mandeville Stadium.
“The events are designed to provide opportunities for children and
young people to explore and develop new skills whilst testing their
developmental, teambuilding, living and social skills,” said Vicky
Radmore, Disability Sport Wales Development Officer for the County
Borough Council. “But they
also provide the chance for
those more accomplished to
compete in regional and
national competitions.”
The year kicks off with the
Stephen Galsworthy Memorial
Shield football tournament in
November, followed by a
swimming gala in February,
gymnastics meeting in March,
Boccia tournament in April,
and Sport for All Indoor
Athletics Tournament in June.
The Corus sponsorship will
also be used to provide
training through Sports Coach
UK Workshops.
Shooting – just one of many activities
to try at the Festival of Sport.
The £10,000 private
sponsorship allows PASS to
apply for 100% match funding
through Disability Sport Cymru
and Welsh Assembly
Government.
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COMMUNITY
Nature at its moorish!
An assessment of the wildlife and the condition of Margam
Moor has revealed not only a healthy site for nature, but
some rare or uncommon flora and fauna.
The Special Site of Scientific Interest (SSSI) was surveyed by the
Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) ecologist, together with members
of the Environmental Management team. The CCW gave the site the big
tick as they fulfill their commitment that, by 2015, suitable management
will have been secured for features of nature conservation interest on
95% of Welsh SSSIs.
Margam Moor is known to be home to
species such as soaring and singing skylarks,
unmistakable red
and black-winged
cinnabar moths,
and wild flowers
such as the
perennial bird’s-foot
trefoil and the protected marsh orchid. It is
even home to the carder bee, one of the
smallest members of the bumble-bee family.
The assessment unearthed a rare
species of butterfly, the Marsh Fritillary,
one of northern Europe’s most scarce
and endangered butterflies (they are
already extinct in Belgium). Wales holds 50% of the UK’s surviving
population of these little natural gems.
Margam Moor forms part of the Port Talbot site, and as such, it requires
a shared responsibility for the maintenance of the SSSI with the CCW.
View across Margam Moor.
Amazon commemorated
A plaque was unveiled on the RNLI Lifeboat Station at
Aberavon last week commemorating the centenary of the
loss of the sailing barque Amazon, which broke anchor in a
gale off Mumbles and later foundered on Margam Sands in
Port Talbot on 1 September 1908 with the loss of 19 lives. The
ship had no connection with the steel industry, but the wreck
now rests on the Corus beach near the eastern ‘Long Arm’
harbour wall.
The 2,000-tonne Amazon was preparing to set sail with a cargo of over
3,000 tonnes of Welsh coal to Chile. At today’s prices the coal would
have been worth about £600,000. There are several wrecks along this
particular coastline, but possibly this was the most graceful – a white,
Amazon wreck.
classic four-masted square-rigger with a carved figurehead of a
voluptuous Amazon woman. For a period, the Amazon was a round-theworld record-holder.
Unveiling the plaque at the lifeboat station, Professor Prys Morgan,
President of the Port Talbot Historical Society, said: “This tragedy
captured the hearts and minds of local people. The incident is a
perpetual reminder of the close relationship between industry, the sea
and the local community.”
Responding on behalf of local people, the Mayor of Neath Port Talbot
County Borough, Councillor Malcolm Gunter, said: “The wreck of the
Amazon is well known locally and it is a lasting memorial to the heroism
of those who made great efforts to rescue the crew.”
Professor Prys Morgan unveiling plaque.
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COMMUNITY
Turning a new leaf!
Corus employees were recently able to choose a book free of
charge from a huge selection made available by the Welsh
Books Council, as part of the National Year of Reading.
The National Year of Reading is a year-long celebration of reading
which aims to increase awareness of the many benefits of reading.
Reading forms an essential skill in
understanding, learning, expressing one’s
opinions, personal development, leisure and
communication with others.
In Wales, the Year of Reading is
coordinated by the Welsh Books Council,
with funding from the Welsh Assembly
Government.
Employees could choose a
book from a wide selection
of novels, thrillers and topical
non-fiction accounts, and
they have been encouraged
to pass on their book to a
colleague, member of the
family, or even a neighbour.
They could also enter a
comment about the book
on the website:
www.bookcrossing.com
Further information is available online at:
www.bookcrossing.com
www.yearofreadingwales.org.uk
ethol.org.uk
ndarllengenedla
www.blwyddy
g.uk
adingwales.or
www.yearofre
gwales.com
Lunchtime browsing
for employees.
BOOKS ON-LINE
LLYFRAU AR-LEIN
Get fruity with our latest competition!
Corus has teamed up with local greengrocer and florist,
Margaret Gammond (Forge Road, Port Talbot), to give a
fabulous basket of seasonal fruit and vegetables to the
first six correct entries in our wordsearch competition.
All you have to do is find and circle the hidden words,
fill in your name and address, and post it to:
The Editor, Corus Strip Products UK, Business
Headquarters, PO Box 42, Port Talbot SA13 2NG.
The closing date is Friday 28 November
2008. The winners will receive their prizes
during the first week of December.
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There was a great response to the last competition. The five
lucky winners drawn out of the hat were: Victoria Jones,
Sandfields Rd; Chris Austin, Margam Rd; Jack Margetson,
Velindre; Gaynor John, Aberavon; and Niceta Dimayusa,
Baglan Moors.
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What’s On with Corus
Saturday 15 November. Santa’s
Parade, Port Talbot Town Centre.
For more information on forthcoming Corus sponsored
events in South Wales, visit www.corussouthwales.co.uk
to view ‘What’s On’ in your area.
Free viewing. Fun for all the family. Come
and see the Street Parade procession and
Santa visiting the town centre on his sleigh.
Santa’s Parade moves into Neath town
centre on Saturday 22 November.
Sunday 2 November. Corus Sprint
Details can be found in the local press and through the Council's
Duathlon, Margam Country Park.
website: www.npt.gov.uk, click on ‘What’s On’.
Free viewing. Organised by Celtic Tri Club,
come and watch competitors taking on the
Monday 17 - Friday 21 November.
challenge of a mountain bike course and
National Anti -Bullying Awareness
run. Visit www.celtictri.com for
Week.
further details.
Schools participation. In conjunction with
Neath Port Talbot’s LEA, Safer Community
Friday 14 November. Switching on
Policing, Swansea Sound and The Wave,
the Christmas lights, Port Talbot
Corus is sponsoring Anti-Bullying Week
Civic Centre.
through Schools in Neath Port Talbot. Listen out for the information on local
Free viewing. Join in the fun with Swansea
radio and the live broadcast from a school to launch the campaign.
Sound and The Wave radio station as the
Related websites: www.antibullyingweek.org,
festive lights are switched on. Switching
www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk, www.thewave.co.uk
on the town lights follows in Neath on
Friday 21 November, and in Pontadawe on Friday 5 December.
Thursday 27 November. F1 in
Details can be found in the local press and through the Council's
Schools Welsh Regional Final,
website: www.npt.gov.uk, click on ‘What’s On’.
National Waterfront Museum,
Swansea Marina.
dot com... for dot community
Invitation only. Schools across South
You can now view community activities on our updated
website each week, including ‘What’s On @ Corus’
events and sponsorships, and other topical stories of
interest. You can even browse SA13 on the site. Visit
www.corussouthwales.co.uk, and it will take you
directly to the community page of the Corus website.
champions in this prestigious event in
Wales compete to become regional
which teams design, construct and race their own cars in time trials. The
winners go on to compete in the UK National Finals, and possibly the World
Championships. Information on the F1 in Schools project can be found
at: www.f1inschools.co.uk
How to contact us
Correspondence to the Editor
The Editor will be pleased to receive your thoughts and opinions on any article you have read in this issue of SA13 Corus community
newspaper. We would like to hear your views and opinions, whether on environmental issues, community activities, etc.
Address: The Editor, Corus Strip Products UK, Business Headquarters, PO Box 42, Port Talbot, South Wales, SA13 2NG.
Fax: 01639 603 179 Email: [email protected]
Community Award applications (for Neath Port Talbot and Pontardulais areas)
Applications for community awards, community sponsorships/partnerships and ‘community assist’ projects for consideration must be submitted in writing
to the following address: Community Liaison Manager, Corus Strip Products UK, Business Headquarters, PO Box 42, Port Talbot, South Wales, SA13 2NG.
Email: [email protected]
Environmental complaints
01639 871111 (24 hours) For calls concerning environmental issues such as noise and air quality (during normal office hours the telephone exchange will
re-direct your call. Calls received out of office hours will be directed by the Security Department). For written enquiries please address to: Environment Manager,
Corus Strip Products UK, Business Headquarters, PO Box 42, Port Talbot, South Wales, SA13 2NG or fax: 01639 872 159.
Careers information and general vacancies
For further information regarding career opportunities and current job vacancies with Corus, go to www.corusgroupcareers.com or write to us at: Recruitment,
Human Resources, Corus Strip Products UK, Business Headquarters, PO Box 42, Port Talbot, South Wales, SA13 2NG. All email correspondence should be
addressed to: [email protected]
Your community newspaper SA13
SA13 is written and produced by Communications, Corus Strip Products UK for the residents in Port Talbot and surrounding area.
FSC labelled products are made with consideration for people, wildlife and the environment.
The FSC label guarantees that the trees that are harvested are replaced or allowed to regenerate naturally.
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