Before any work can start on constructing one of the world’s largest electric arc furnaces at Port Talbot, the existing steel plant building – in which it is to be located – is being stripped back to a shell as the site prepares for the next generation of steelmaking.

The Materials Processing Institute (MPI) has announced a £2.9m upgrade to its seven-tonne electric arc furnace (EAF), the UK’s only pilot-scale research EAF.