Region shocked after Tata Steel round of layoffs: 'That involves 100,000 families'

Horst Heydenreich knows every coffee machine at Tata Steel. The North Dutchman himself was employed there for forty years, his father-in-law worked there and his son and grandson “are also in production”. The announcement of a major reorganization hit the family, which is concerned about the future of the former Hoogovens. “People who speak ill of Tata should be ashamed.”