The South Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, and Minister for Energy and Mining Tom Koutsantonis has held an ‘urgent meeting’ with operators of the troubled Whyalla steelworks, emerging confident that the blast furnace would be up and running within a week. However Koutsantonis has ‘grave concerns’ about unpaid bills, according to media reports, with…
Steel manufacturer and distributor InfraBuild has become the first distribution business in Australia to secure accreditation under the Australian Steel Institute’s traceability standard. With the ASI, Steel Compliance Australia has awarded InfraBuild Steel Centre Dandenong the accreditation under AS/NZS 5131. The Australian Steel Institute amended the current standard to include traceability measures in the current…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Licella, Shell partner to pursue biomass-to-aviation fuel processing Recycling technology company Licella has announced a new partnership with the decarbonisation division of Shell, applying the two companies’ collective expertise to biofuels, particularly sustainable aviation fuels (SAF.) In a statement on…
GreenHY2 receives first grant funding for Telstra project Hydrogen Energy storage manufacturer GreenHY2 has received the 1st Instalment of the grant funds allocated by the federal government to provide its Hy2MEDI generation and storage system to Telstra. The amount received is $432,000 plus GST, with the total grant for the project valued at $1.5 million.…
Steelmaker GFG Alliance’s executive chairman Sanjeev Gupta put on a brave face in South Australia this week, vowing the company’s troubled Whyalla blast furnace would produce again and that the site had a future making green steel. Gupta travelled to Whyalla in South Australia to inspect repair work on the blast furnace which has been…
The global steel market is cyclical and currently battling Chinese over-supply, and so too is cynicism about GFG Alliance’s ability to transition the Whyalla steelworks to a green steel future. With renewed scepticism facing GFG, and part way through a green transition, GFG Alliance Executive Chairman Sanjeev Gupta remains confident of Whyalla’s future – this…
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…
By Peter Roberts Much of Australia’s modesty sized steel sector was born through the adversity of distance from established suppliers and the threat Japan posed to Australia during WW2. Since then there has been some development of electric arc furnaces utilising scrap as a feedstock, but otherwise Japan, then Korea and China have swamped Australian…
By Peter Roberts Just as the domestic electricity grid is making quick progress towards decarbonisation, so too are industrial processes such as steelmaking. Australia’s two primary steelmakers have taken different courses in moving towards lower carbon iron and steels. The GFG Alliance at Whyalla is moving from reliance on blast furnace technology towards a combination…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Responding to the loss of sovereign ability to make plastics While issues such as quantum computing attract political action, Australia is losing the sovereign ability to manufacture even basic products such as plastics and downstream products such as…
