What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Factory to supply Western Harbour Tunnel Project opens at Emu Plains A precast concrete factory that will help in construction of the Western Harbour Tunnel project has opened at Western Sydney’s Emu Plains, ahead of the arrival of tunnel…
BlueScope Steel has secured a pivotal advantage in the sale of Whyalla Steelworks, gaining a “right-of-last-offer” provision that gives it the opportunity to beat any final offers to acquire the facility, as The Australian Financial Review reports. The administrators have granted the ASX-listed company the ability to form a consortium with other interested parties and…
By Scott French, UNSW Sydney Just one day after the US Court of Appeals temporarily reinstated the Trump Administration’s Liberation Day tariffs of between 10 per cent and 50 per cent on nearly every country in the world, Trump announced tariffs on all US imports of steel and aluminium will increase from 25 per cent…
The billionaire Stokes family has made an early move on the troubled Whyalla steelworks, with SGH Limited executives conducting a site visit ahead of the formal sale process. SGH chief executive Ryan Stokes and chief financial officer Richard Richards spent two days in the remote South Australian town recently, getting a head start before sell-side…
A CSIRO-developed tubular solid oxide electrolysis (SOE) system for generating hydrogen began operation at BlueScope Steel’s Port Kembla Steelworks in October, and has passed 1,000 hours of operation, according to the nation’s scientific agency. In a statement on Thursday, CSIRO said the system differs from water-splitting electrolysis machines – which separate water into hydrogen and…
BlueScope Steel today cut guidance for earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) for 1H FY2025 on continued record China steel sales in the region and softness in North America in the countdown to the Presidential election. The company told investors it expected underlying EBIT to be in the range of $270 million to $310 million,…
BlueScope Steel’s venture subsidiary BlueScopeX has signed a MoU with low emissions steel production technology developer Helios Project to demonstrate the use of its Helios Green Iron (HGI) technology in parts of BlueScope’s steelmaking operations. Helios has developed the Helios Cycle process to produce iron and other metals using sodium as a reducing agent with…
Birdon progresses new boats for the Netherlands Birdon Group is progressing the build of Bridge Erection Boats (BEBs) for the Netherlands Army, with six Birdon BEBs in the final stages of assembly and delivery scheduled for the end of September. Birdon just performed a sea trial on the first boat – hull number 007 (pictured)…
Australia’s largest steel maker Bluescope is trying to have a $57.5 million fine for carrying out price-fixing attempts with flat steel distributors thrown out.
It turns out that GFG Alliance’s decision to halt shipments of coal to fuel the Whyalla steelworks blast furnace as it moves towards green iron and steel production was premature. In September last year GFG heralded the arrival of the last shipment of coal used to produce coke used in a traditional blast furnace, with…