For a lot of former SSI employees, work has been hard to come by since the Redcar plant was liquidated in 2015.
But business is already buoyant for former reliability engineer Dean Morley, who has completed a remarkable turnaround since being made redundant last October.
Dean Morley founded HotPriceTubs in December 2015, just two months after losing his job.
Dean, 24, set up his hot tub business, which is based in Eaglescliffe, with his close friend Garon Sidhu.
Incredibly, the turnover for year one has been £2.5m - and the company hopes to make £6m next year.
Dean said: "I was at SSI right until the end. It was quite distressing and hard not to get affected by it.
"I had only been there for a year - things just went from bad to worse."
Dean continued: "When we started, we bought six hot tubs from China - we didn't even have a place to put them!"
"We chose them because I had bought a tub two or three years ago.
HotPriceTubs employs 16 people but plans are in place for a brand new factory which would create a further 100 jobs for the area.
Hot tubs are available for £2,649, £2,699 and £2,749 - claimed to be the cheapest rates in the country.
And Dean's message to any SSI workers who are struggling to find work is clear.
He said: "If they have got something they always wanted to do, now is the time to do it.
"People need to believe that they can go out there and do something similar to what we have done.