Become a member

UK Steel is the trade association for the UK steel industry.

Membership is open to all UK-based companies and organisations involved in the production of steel. Processes also covered by the scope of UK Steel's membership include rolling, drawing, coating and tubemaking. Subscription rates vary according to turnover.

Benefits of membership

We are determined to make our members succeed by:

Saving them time and money through the services that we provide;
Providing analyses and advice on European, UK and other legislative, statutory or trade developments that will affect their business;
Providing a well-informed forum for them to discuss, develop and influence UK and EU technical and environmental standards;
Influencing the UK and European economic, political and social environment to their benefit;
Providing aggregated market statistics, within the framework of competition rules, so that they can better judge their position in the market;
Channelling customer enquiries to them as they arise;
Providing twice yearly access to an expert steel-user industries demand forecasting group to help them plan;
Holding events (working groups, committees, conferences, parliamentary receptions) on important topics;
Helping them to exploit all the support to which they are entitled, e.g. DTI funding, for information and communications technology and competitiveness;
Promoting the steel industry to policy and opinion formers and the public to underline the importance of steel’s role in the economy;
Giving access to culture change, process improvement and workforce development solutions and influence on education and training policy through Metal Industry Skills and Performance Ltd (Metskill), the national training organisation for the metals industry, and Metals Industry Competitive Enterprise;