Closure
The closure of Ravenscraig in 1992 signalled the end of large scale steel making in Scotland. It led to a loss of 770 jobs; and another 10,000 jobs directly and indirectly linked. Although the nearby steel plants at Dalzell and Clydebridge remain in operation as of 2012 under the ownership of Tata Steel Europe.
The closure of Ravenscraig did however lead to the closure of several local support and satellite businesses, such as the nearby British Steel Clydesdale Works in Mossend, Clyde Alloy in Netherton and mining plant equipment maker Anderson Mavor (subsequently Anderson Strathclyde, Anderson Longwall (after the controversial 1983 takeover by Charter International), Long-Airdox (after its 1995 sale by Charter, with the Motherwell manufacturing plant closed in 1997), DBT Deutsche Bergbau-Technik (2001), Bucyrus International (2007) and Caterpillar Inc. (2010, which finally closed the Eurocentral design office in 2011).
Demolition of the site's landmark blue gasometer in 1996, and the subsequent cleanup operation, has created the largest brownfield site in Europe. This huge area between Motherwell and Wishaw is in line to be transformed into the new town of Ravenscraig, a project partly funded by the successor company to British Steel, Tata Steel Europe.
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