UK-based steelmaker Corus has opened a new service centre in Suzhou Industrial Park’s free trade zone, where an aerospace hub is being created.

It will be used to supply China’s aerospace industry. Aerospace Service Centre Suzhou is modelled on Corus’s aerospace supply operation in the UK, which is one of the company’s gateways to the European aerospace market.

The service centre will stock, break bulk and process specialist aerospace steels produced at Corus’s Stocksbridge plant in the UK. It will also supply other materials, particularly non-ferrous metals, from third parties as part of a materials service package for customers in China.