Tata Steel speciality business would immediately give an outlet to recycle domestic scrap, said Sanjeev Gupta, Executive Chairman, Liberty House Group.
In conversation with CNBC-TV18, Bimlendra Jha, CEO of Tata Steel UK, said the company is trying to launch consultation process to close the British Steel Pension scheme to future accrual and it will start next week.
Bimlendra Jha told a committee of British lawmakers that there were "structural disadvantages" in the steel industry in Britain which made production unprofitable - something, he said, that had forced the company to put its assets up for sale.
Tata Steel is not prepared to split up its main British assets, such as its Port Talbot steel plant, as part of a plan to divest its UK steelmaking operations, UK CEO Bimlendra Jha told a committee of lawmakers on Thursday.
CNBC-TV18 learns that the Bombay headquartered group has extended the deadline for prospective bidders till Friday as no concrete offers have been submitted so far.
The steelmaker declined to reveal whether it has received any proposal for a management buyout of its Port Talbot plant, the largest steel-making facility in Britain.
Hundreds of Tata Steel workers on Teesside in the north-east of England will effectively come under new management with the latest development. The new Scunthorpe-based business, which employs 750 workers, will be led by Bimlendra Jha, executive chairman of the Tata Steel board.