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Type
  
Public

Industry
  
Steel

Headquarters
  
Melbourne, Australia

Traded as
  
ASX: BSL

Founded
  
2002

CFO
  
Charlie Elias

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Number of locations
  
Australia (main headquarters), Asia, New Zealand, North America, Pacific Islands

Key people
  
Graham Kraehe (Chairman) Paul O'Malley (CEO)

Stock price
  
TES (ASX) A$ 12.46 -0.23 (-1.81%)3 Mar, 4:10 PM GMT+11 - Disclaimer

CEO
  
Paul Francis O'Malley (1 Nov 2007–)

Subsidiaries
  
Orrcon Steel, Bluescope Lysaght

Profiles

Bluescope company profile 2016


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

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The corporate headquarters are located in the Bluescope Steel Centre 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, 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.

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 Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth

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Major manufacturing facilities

  • Port Kembla near Wollongong in the Illawarra, New South Wales.
  • Western Port in Hastings near Melbourne, Victoria.
  • New Zealand Steel, Glenbrook near Waiuku, New Zealand.
  • Orrcon Brisbane Mill, Salisbury, Brisbane.
  • Orrcon Precision Tubing Mill, Adelaide.
  • 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.

    Sponsorship

  • BlueScope Steel Youth Orchestra
  • Southern Stars, Wollongong
  • References

    BlueScope Wikipedia