CELSA Group

CELSA Group is a multinational group of steel companies headquartered in Spain, working mainly in steel reinforcement, the rebar used to strengthen concrete. It was formed in 1967 as the Compañia Española de Laminación and is headquartered in Castellbisbal. The group is made up of eight main steel companies across Europe. One of them, Celsa Steel UK in Cardiff, is the largest manufacturer of steel reinforcement products in the United Kingdom; it received a government loan of 30 million pounds during the COVID-19 pandemic, the first company to benefit from the support scheme known as Project Birch, and it has long used rail freight for incoming scrap steel and outgoing finished products. Salzgitter AG of Germany is named as a competitor.