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Summary of Operations

North Star BlueScope Steel LLC (Ohio, USA)

North Star BlueScope Steel, located in Delta, Ohio is a 50-50 joint venture between BlueScope Steel and North Star Steel, a subsidiary of Cargill Inc. North Star BlueScope Steel operates seven mini mills in the United States, making it the second largest mini mill steel company and the eighth largest steel company in the country. Leading edge steelmaking technologies and processes are used to annually produce around 2 million tonnes of hot rolled coil from scrap metal, pig iron and various other sources. North Star BlueScope Steel has been voted number one for six consecutive years in the annual Jacobson Survey of steel customers measuring customer satisfaction.

Castrip

BlueScope Steel has a 47.5% shareholding of Castrip LLC with Nucor. This innovative process involves casting a continuous thin strip of steel directly from the furnace. Castrip's two facilities are located at Crawfordsville, Indiana and at Blytheville, Arkansas.

Coated and Building Products North America

Coated and Building Products North America is engaged in the manufacturing, construction and sale of pre-engineered buildings, metal coating and painting, the manufacture of insulated metal panels and of building components. The segment represents the most recent addition to BlueScope Steel's global operations and includes:

BlueScope Buildings, including Butler Buildings (acquired 28 April 2004), HCI Buildings (acquired 31 October 2007) and Varco Pruden Buildings (acquired as part of the IMSA Steel Corp acquisition on 1 February 2008). Now operating as a fully integrated business, this group designs, manufactures and markets PEBs and component systems.

ASC Profiles, a manufacturer of building components including architectural roof and wall systems and structural roof and decking;

Metl-Span, a manufacturer of insulated steel panels for commercial, industrial and cold-storage buildings; and

Steelscape, a producer of metal coated and painted steel coils.

Products, Markets and Applications

Coated and Building Products North America's main products, markets and applications are summarised in the table below:

	Business	Products	Markets and Applications
BlueScope Buildings Pre-engineered metal building systems and components Industrial, commercial and community segments of low-rise non-residential building and construction markets in North America ASC Profiles Steel building components including architectural roof and wall systems and structural roof and floor decking Light commercial and industrial roofing and walls, residential roofing, commercial and industrial roof and floor systems in North America, primarily the West Coast of the U.S. Metl-Span Composite insulated metal panels and fire resistant panels Cold storage, panels for walls, ceilings and roofs, commercial and industrial non-residential construction Steelscape Metallic-coated and pre-painted steel Non-residential building and construction markets in North America

BlueScope Buildings

BlueScope Buildings North America's key end markets include manufacturing, commercial, community and government applications. BlueScope Buildings draws upon a number of distribution channels to bring its product to the customer. Its main distribution channels include:

• the Butler Builder network of over 1,100 authorised construction professionals from North America;
• Varco Pruden Builders, a network of more than 1,000 independent authorised construction professionals from across North America;
• HCI and Liberty products, a direct end customer channel to market; and
• BlueScope Construction, an in-house general contractor specialising in large construction projects and government work.

ASC Profiles

ASC Profiles operates three building product lines:

• ASC Building Products – manufactures light commercial and industrial roofing and walling and residential roofing products;
• AEP Span – manufactures architectural, commercial and industrial products and retrofit roof systems; and
• ASC Steel Deck – manufactures floor and roof deck products.

ASC sells these building products lines primarily through a national network of offices and sales representatives.

Metl-Span

Metl-Span supplies its insulated metal panels to the refrigeration and construction markets in the U.S. and Canada. Its key products include: commercial and industrial panels (used as walls, ceilings and roofs for commercial and industrial buildings); cold storage panels (used as walls, ceilings and roofs for coolers, freezers, and food processing buildings); and ThermalSafe® (fire resistant panels used in manufacturing plants, auxiliary buildings and refineries and other at-risk for fire building installations). These product lines are distributed primarily through a network of manufacturing representatives located on both the east and west coast of the U.S. servicing the U.S. and Canadian markets.

Steelscape

Steelscape sells its metal-coated and painted steel products to a broad range of customers in the construction end markets in the U.S. and Canada. The key customer end uses of these pre-painted products include metal buildings, roof and wall panels, steel framing and decking. The products are primarily distributed to the U.S. east and west coasts with approximately 60% of sales to roll-formers and metal builder customers.

Facilities and Processes

Coated and Building Products North America's operating footprint includes the facilities described below:

BlueScope Buildings
As part of the integration of Varco Pruden, Butler and HCI, BlueScope Buildings Manufacturing North America was created to develop a single PEB manufacturing footprint for the North American PEB businesses. The manufacturing operations consist of a total of 10 facilities, of which 9 are located in the U.S. in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, California, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Wisconsin, Washington and Tennessee and 1 is located in Monterrey, Mexico.

ASC Profiles
ASC Profiles has 9 U.S. manufacturing facilities located in the states of California, Washington State, Oregon, Utah and Alaska.

Metl-Span
Metl-Span has 5 U.S. manufacturing facilities with a total annual capacity of 68 million square feet located in Texas, Virginia, Nevada and Indiana.

Steelscape
Steelscape has three manufacturing facilities in the U.S., located in Washington, California and Alabama. The California facilities include metal coating, painting and slitting equipment with Washington also operating a pickling and cold mill line while Alabama only operates as a painting facility. Steelscape has a total annual capacity of approximately 446,000 tonnes of metal-coated steel products and 332,000 tonnes of painting capacity.