Jenkins found that by 2009, the year Kate and Harry were cremated, furnaces at Emstrey were decrepit.
She said Jenkins failed to speak to the council bosses who decided to keep the furnaces running past their life expectancy.
When, in the 1960s and 1970s, the yards went quiet and the furnaces turned cold, no redundancy payments would ever be big enough to heal the gaping wounds in the psyche of generations of Glasgow men and, latterly, women.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries built one of the world's largest furnaces to produce carbon-fibre reinforced plastic for the aircraft.
In 1291 the industry was ordered to move to the island of Murano to safeguard Venice's mainly wooden buildings against fires caused by glass furnaces.
But she will soon be spending less time among the cold-rolling mills, annealing furnaces and welding lines of the firm's numerous factories.
One of the most famous, Murano-born Lino Tagliapietra who moved to America in the early 1970s, advised on the layout of the furnaces and will return to teach.
Inside its cavernous buildings, giant furnaces belch flames and steam as the elements meet, while huge rollers squeeze fat steel slabs into elegant gleaming rolls.Europe has six of the world's ten biggest steel companies.
Zhang Yi, a senior manager at SMI Environment, a local state-owned enterprise that runs the Laogang furnaces, says its facilities were built to "the strictest standard" in the world.
From such sows' ears as blast furnaces, cooling towers, pit heads, silos and power stations they created silk purses.Next week, the latest retrospective of the Bechers' work opens in Düsseldorf.
The makers of "Doctor Who", a science-fiction television series, have asked to use the moonscape created by mounds of coal and ore as a backdrop.At least one corner of the works is teeming as one of the site's two blast furnaces is replaced.
