Salary : £14, 500
Works Placements in : Purchasing, HR, Finance, Logistics, Supply Chain, Product Development, R&D, Process Technology, Manufacturing and Engineering.
Steel is the most important, multi-functional and adaptable of all materials. The development of out world would not have been possible without steel. If a product is not made from steel, a product that is made from steel has been used making it.
Corus, now part of the Tata Steel Group, is an international metals company, providing steel and aluminium products and services to customers worldwide.
What we do:
Corus metal is used in the new Grand theatre in Beijing and at Ground Zero in New York; closer to home it is used for 80% of UK made cars, track for the London Underground and the new Wembley stadium. The Fusionpolis landmark in Singapore, Sky Plaza in Hong Kong, National convention centre in Vietnam, Ashburton Grove (the new Arsenal stadium), Rotana Hotel in Dubai, Terminal 3 at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, Delhi metro in India and the New Bank of America Building in New York all have Corus expertise and metal in common. Corus also has major contracts with Airbus, Landrover Discovery, Bughatti Veyron, Network Rail, Bosch, Ikea and John West to name just a few.
Other innovative projects we have involvement in include; the elimination of hexavalent chromium in consumer goods, which causes white rust in storage, the development of a new “Munchbox” – a safe and hygienic lunchbox for children, new colorcoat roof and wall cladding that ensures longer durability meaning less need for people to repair roofs reducing accidents, and steel protective barriers at Westminster designed for security critical situations