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…
Workers are gradually returning to regular shift rosters at the GFG Alliance-owned Whyalla steelworks in South Australia, following issues at the blast furnace after a routine shutdown operation in mid-March. Hundreds are back to work as usual, according to a statement from GFG Alliance on Wednesday. The blast furnace’s restart operation “is nearing completion following…
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Jindera, NSW-based grain silo maker SilOz goes back to the 1970s and is almost a year into its current ownership. As a maker of products based on Australian steel, its history reflects some of the shifts in the local steel sector over the decades. “It used to be a part of the Smorgon Group, which…
The operator of the Whyalla steelworks, GFG Alliance’s Liberty Primary Steel now expects to be able to restart the blast furnace on site on May 27, ahead of the June date originally feared. The blast furnace has been closed since March due to an uncontrolled iron breakout which damaged the furnace’s outer shell. The furnace…
Steel maker GFG Alliance has signed a new agreement with the South Australian government seeking the supply of green hydrogen from a 250MW electrolyser under construction to feed the company’s Whyalla steel works. GFG has also entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with energy company Santos for potential long term natural gas supply to…
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Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Primary Steel has extinguished the coke ovens at the Whyallla steelworks in South Australia after more than five decades in operation. Liberty, part of the GFG Alliance, took the step on the way to decarbonising its Whyalla operations – originally built by BHP and that played a key part in Australia’s war…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Another battery metals factory lost offshore, more to come While Australia talks the big talk about being a critical minerals and battery metals superpower, backed by the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund, Australian metals companies continue to…
By Peter Roberts The LIBERTY Primary Steel steelworks at Whyalla in South Australia has unloaded its last-ever consignment of coal as the company continues its transition to green steel production. Owned by GFG Alliance, Liberty set mid September as the closure of its coal-fed coke-making ovens and the transition from a coke-fed blast furnace to…
