The University of Wollongong (UOW) has shared details of a new project with industry partner BlueScope Steel for lower-emission steelmaking, which was announced on Wednesday morning as securing $2 million in funding through an Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) grant round. According to a statement from the university, the project will investigate ways to utilise…
BlueScope Steel’s Orrcon Steel subsidiary will manufacture components for Nextracker solar trackers under an agreement announced today which will see the first local steel used in ACCIONA Energia’s 480MWp Aldoga Solar Farm to be built near Gladstone. The components for Nextracker’s smart solar tracker used on distributed generation and utility-scale solar farms will be produced…
BlueScope Steel and iron ore producers BHP and Rio Tinto have entered a partnership that could see the construction of a low emission Electric Smelting Facility (ESF) pilot plant which could cut carbon emissions in the steelmaking process by 80 percent. The ESF is capable of producing iron suitable for the basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS)…
Construction technology company PARKD has announced entry into Binding Commercial Terms with Fielders Steel Roofing (a division of BlueScope Steel) for the licencing of PARKD’s Metal Deck Support System (MDSS) and intellectual property. The news follows a successful 120-day due diligence term announced in September 2023. Western Australia-based PARKD is a developer of modular, multi-storey…
The Chief Executive Australian Steel Products, BlueScope Steel Tania Archibald (pictured) has confirmed BlueScope will invest $1.15 billion to reline and upgrade its idled No. 6 Blast Furnace at Port Kembla. However at a media conference with Climate Change and Energy minister Chris Bowen, Archibald said the company remained committed to achieving net zero by…
BlueScope Steel has unveiled a Master Plan to develop 200 Hectares (Ha) of non-steelmaking, excess landholdings adjacent to the company’s Port Kembla Steelworks in New South Wales. The Master Plan will see BlueScope transform the surplus land next door to its steelmaking plant, into what the company calls ‘a next generation multi-industrial precinct’ with potential…
By Peter Roberts Primary steel producer BlueScope Steel today announced its FY23 results and a decision to go ahead with the relining of its Number 6 blast furnace (6BF) at the Port Kembla Steelworks (pictured). However the company said the decision did not lock the company into a full, 20 year blast furnace operating life,…
Bluescope has upgraded its earnings guidance for the second half of this financial year, with the main contributor to this the recently-expanded North Star mill in Ohio, as well as the North American coated products and the local Australian Steel Products division. The steel company announced on Monday morning that guidance for earnings before interest,…
Primary steel producer BlueScope Steel has seen profit slumps from its major businesses as markets for its steel, coated products and buildings generally softened in the first half FY23. The company reported first half net profit after tax of $599 million, a $1 billion drop from the previous corresponding period. The company’s Australian steel products…
BlueScope has renewed its commitment to decarbonise its primary steelmaking facilities at Port Kembla in New South Wales, but cautioned that a transition was an enormous challenge for the company. Chairman John Bevan told the company’s annual general meeting that the Port Kembla blast furnaces were a major manufacturing precinct of strategic importance to the…
