By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Western Sydney University and Greg Morrison, Western Sydney University Australia is currently facing twin crises: housing and climate change. A lot more homes are needed, fast. Australia’s housing crisis isn’t just an affordability issue. It damages mental health over the long term. But building more houses contributes substantially to carbon emissions. There’s…
Sponsored As ESG reporting becomes mandatory and decarbonisation accelerates, Australia’s steelmakers are rethinking how they source and manage energy — not just to stay competitive, but to future-proof their operations. Australia’s steel industry is standing at a defining moment. With growing pressure from investors, regulators and supply chains to demonstrate measurable sustainability outcomes, energy strategy…
GFG Alliance-owned steel recycler InfraBuild has won the Innovation of the Year award at the annual Steelie Awards, hosted by the World Steel Association (worldsteel.) Tracey Sen (pictured left), Executive General Manager of Communications, represented the company at the event in Washington, DC and which was hosted by the industry group representing 85 per cent…
Following the European Commission’s announcement of plans to halve the quota of tariff-free steel imports and apply a 50 per cent tariff beyond that, the Australian Steel Institute (ASI) has urged against panic, saying there were “no surprises” in the news and that the plan has yet to be ratified. This week the EU proposed…
The country’s second-largest steelmaker, InfraBuild, has said it’s upping capacity at its two electric arc furnace facilities, with the company announcing it has taken delivery of two new EAF bowls at its Laverton Melt Shop at Melbourne. According to a statement on Wednesday from the company, which runs the nation’s only steelmaking EAFs, the bowls…
Sell & Parker, a company founded in 1966 and with a heritage in steel recycling, has been awarded a $28 million grant from the state government to support the building and operation of a new renewables manufacturing hub in Western Sydney. According to a statement from the NSW government on Wednesday, the new site has…
The deadline passed on Friday for the indicative bidding stage of the sale of Whyalla steelworks, which was put into administration earlier this year. KordaMentha put out a statement last Thursday saying that the duration was uncertain “and will be highly dependent on the nature of the indicative interest received and the extent of engagement…
ASX-listed metals recycler Sims Metal and Alter Steel, which intends to build a $750 million steel mill in Pinkenba, Queensland, have announced a supply and services agreement for the upcoming site. According to a statement from Sims on Thursday, the pair have entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding regarding the proposed electric arc furnace…
By Peter Mullner, Boise State University Many modern devices – from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines – rely on strong magnets made from a type of minerals called rare earths. As the systems and infrastructure used in daily life have turned digital and the United States has moved toward renewable energy,…
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…