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BlueScope
Company typePublic company
ASX: BSL
IndustrySteel
PredecessorBHP Steel
Founded2002
HeadquartersMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Number of locations
Australia (main headquarters),
New Zealand,
Pacific Islands,
North America,
and Asia
Key people
Graham Kraehe (Chairman)
Paul O'Malley (CEO)
ProductsSteel
RevenueAU$ 9.202 billion (FY 2016)[1]
Number of employees
16,000
WebsiteBlueScope.com

BlueScope is a flat product steel producer with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, North America, and Asia. It was demerged from BHP Billiton on 22 July 2002 as BHP Steel[2] and renamed BlueScope Steel on 17 November 2003.

The corporate headquarters are located at 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria.

The company employs 16,000 personnel. It has its largest operating plant, an integrated steelworks, at Port Kembla near Wollongong in the Illawarra, New South Wales. In October 2011, No.6 Blast furnace, one of two at Port Kembla, was shut down, reducing the plant's production capacity by 50% after the company decided to exit the export market.

Major products include steel slab, hot rolled coil, steel plate, automotive steel, galvanised steel, corrugated galvanised iron, "Zincalume" brand (55% aluminium, 43.5% zinc, 1.5% silicon) coated steel, and "Colorbond" brand pre-painted steel. Tinplate production ceased in March 2007.

Paul O'Malley (then CFO) replaced the previous CEO Kirby Adams in October 2007.

In March 2012 a new coated steel manufacturing plant was inaugurated in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand State, India.[3]

In February 2014 Bluescope Steel purchased Orrcon Steel from Hills Corporation. Its products include RHS, SHS and CHS structural tubular steel, hot-rolled structural steel and fencing, roofing and building accessories.

Orrcon Steel supplies steel, tube and pipe to steel fabricators, furniture and trailer body manufacturers, housing and construction companies and pipeline and infrastructure engineering firms.

It has distribution centres in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

Major manufacturing facilities

Finished products are transported around Australia by rail freight operator Pacific National. In February 2007 PN secured Australia's largest ever rail freight contract ($1 billion) with BlueScope Steel and OneSteel, to carry approximately 3 million tonnes of steel product each year for 7 years.[4]

Sponsorship

  • BlueScope Steel Youth Orchestra
  • Southern Stars, Wollongong

See also

References

  1. ^ https://www.bluescope.com/investors/annual-reports/
  2. ^ "BHP Billiton group demerger 2002". Australian Tax Office. 20 July 2005.
  3. ^ "Tata BlueScope Steel inaugurates state-of-the-art Coated Steel Manufacturing facility at Jamshedpur" (Press release). Tata BlueScope Steel. 6 March 2012. Archived from the original on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012. {{cite press release}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "PN wins steel deal". World Cargo News. February 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
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