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Contact our BlueScope Steel sales offices in Australia
Contact our BlueScope Lysaght sales offices in Australia - for building products
BlueScope Steel has two main business units operating within Australia – Coated and Industrial Products Australia and Australian Distribution and Solutions.
Coated and Industrial Products Australia
Chief Executive, BlueScope Australia and New Zealand – Mark Vassella
Coated and Industrial Products Australia produces a wide range of steel products for Australian and international internal and external customers including slab, hot rolled coil and plate, cold rolled coil, zinc/aluminium alloy-coated ZINCALUME® steel, galvanised and pre-painted COLORBOND® steel. Coated and Industrial Products Australia incorporates the following facilities:
- Port Kembla Steelworks, an integrated steelmaking operation with an annual production capacity of approximately 5.3 million tonnes of crude steel. Port Kembla Steelworks is the largest manufacturer and supplier of flat steel in Australia by volume and manufactures slab, hot rolled coil and plate products;
- Two metallic coating and painting facilities located in Springhill, New South Wales and Western Port, Victoria;
- Steel painting facilities in Western Sydney, New South Wales, and Acacia Ridge, Queensland; and export trading offices based in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Facilities and Processes
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| Port Kembla Steelworks, NSW |
Sinter plant (capacity 6.6Mt/a)
Four coke ovens batteries (capacity 2.4Mt/a)
Two blast furnaces (ironmaking capacity 5.3Mt/a)
Three BOS vessels (accept slab capacity 5.3Mt/a)
Steel ladle injection unit and vacuum degasser
CAS-OB steel ladle treatment station
Three continuous slab casters (capacity 5.3Mt/a)
One tonnage oxygen generating plant
Hot strip mill (capacity 2.9Mt/a)
Plate mill (capacity 450,000 t/a) |
| Springhill, Port Kembla |
Cold rolling mill
Metallic coating lines
Paint lines
Finishing processes (Tension Leveller, Pack Line and Shear Line) |
| Western Port Steelworks |
Hot strip mill
Cold rolling mill
Metallic coating lines
Paint lines
Finishing processes (Temper Mill, Tension Leveller, Hot Coil Processing) |
| Erskine Park, NSW |
Paint Line |
| Acacia Ridge, Qld |
Paint Line |
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BlueScope Steel conducted analyst site tours of the Port Kembla site in May 2011 and the Western Port site in November 2009, and released associated briefing packs which contain more information. The Port Kembla pack can be found here and the Western Port pack can be found here. Subsequent ASX releases, in particular results presentations, contain more updated information and can be found here.
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Products, Markets and Applications
Coated and Industrial Products Australia's main products, the markets for those products and their applications are shown below:
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Primary end use markets
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Applications
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Slab
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Steel manufacturing
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Hot rolled coil and plate
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Plate
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Manufacturing, building and construction and mining
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Mining infrastructure, structural construction and engineering construction
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Hot rolled coil
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Building and construction, mining, automotive and transport, manufacturing
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Mining equipment, racking, guard rails, building and construction products, structural tubing, water pipelines, oil/gas pipelines and automotive components
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Galvanised (including GALVASPAN® steel) and special zinc finishes
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Building and construction, manufacturing, automotive and transport
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General manufacturing, automotive, structural sections for commercial and industrial buildings and structural decking
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Zinc/aluminium alloy coated ZINCALUME® steel and TRUECORE® steel
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Building and construction
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Commercial and industrial construction including roofing, walling, rain water goods and residential framing
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Painted (including pre-painted COLORBOND® steel
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Building and construction
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Residential, commercial and industrial construction including roofing, walling, rain water goods, architectural panels, sheds and garages.
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Australian Distribution and Solutions
Chief Executive, BlueScope Australian Distribution and Solutions - Keith Mitchelhill
The Australian Distribution and Solutions segment brings together BlueScope Steel's Australian-based downstream businesses. The segment contains a network of service centres and distribution sites through which it acts as a major steel product supplier to the Australian building and construction, automotive, white goods manufacturing and general manufacturing industries.
The operating segment also holds the LYSAGHT® steel solutions business, providing a range of LYSAGHT® branded products to the building and construction sector and BlueScope Water, which provides residential and commercial water storage and water harvesting solutions. The key businesses forming part of Australian Distribution and Solutions include:
BlueScope Distribution
BlueScope Distribution operates an integrated network of 80 metropolitan and regional sites around Australia that offer a diverse range of flat and long steel products to more than 16,000 customers operating in industries including manufacturing, building and construction, mining, automotive and transport, infrastructure and agriculture.
BlueScope Distribution offers processing services which range from simple cutting, slitting, and stamping of coil to complex multiple precision processing of plate and beams. These solutions help to reduce customer costs by reducing fabrication times, stock holdings and waste.
BlueScope Steel conducted an analyst site tour of the Westall site in November 2009, and released an associated briefing pack which contains more information on Australian Distribution and Solutions segment. The pack can be found here. Subsequent ASX releases, in particular results presentations, contain more updated information and can be found here.
BlueScope Lysaght
BlueScope Lysaght is Australia's premium name in residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural steel building markets and is also a provider of PEB solutions including mobile roll-forming, facades, structural walling and design and construction services. Through its well-recognised brands such as the premium LYSAGHT® range of steel building products including CUSTOM ORB® and MINI ORB® and supported by modern products such as SMARTASCREEN® fencing and the QUIKA-FLOOR® steel flooring system, BlueScope Lysaght provides a comprehensive range of steel building products from a network of 38 operating sites throughout Australia.
Sheet Metal Supplies
Sheet Metal Supplies offers a diverse range of sheet and coil steel products, comprising galvanised, zinc coated, aluminium zinc coated, hot rolled, cold rolled, pre-painted, aluminised, COLORBOND® and ZINCALUME® steels. Sheet Metal Supplies is supported by a number of modern and well-equipped sheet and coil processing service centres located strategically around the country to service its customer base.
BlueScope Water
BlueScope Water is a leading manufacturer of premium steel based products for the water industry. Products include the WATERPOINT® in-ground system, AGRIRIB® irrigation pipes and THINKTANK® water savings systems. The operation has six manufacturing and seven retail sites across Australia and in the U.S., one retail and two manufacturing sites.
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