AUSTRALIAN Workers’ Union (AWU) has called for a nationwide ‘Use Australian Steel’ campaign to ensure local steel mills keep running.
02/02/2009
SCRAP metal recycler Sims Group has sold its Australian distribution business Sims Steel to a subsidiary of Capital Steel Group.
26/06/2008
THE AUSTRALIAN Steel Institute (ASI) has opened entries for Australia’s first dedicated sustainable steel awards program.
14/05/2009
ONESTEEL Steel & Tube has released a new Know Your Steel reference guide.
08/05/2009
SYDNEY-based WorleyParsons has been awarded a contract by United States Steel to form an alliance to support four of its steel works and tube making operations.
18/09/2009
THE WORLD Steel Association has released the 2008 Sustainability Report based on a survey of 500 steel industry stakeholders in Europe, South America, North America, Australia, Asia and Africa.
09/10/2008
PAGE Steel says it won a major contract to fabricate and erect two distribution warehouses for Aldi, using 5000t of steel from OneSteel.
18/05/2009
ACCORDING to the World Steel Association, the November 2008 figures for world crude steel production have been collated, and indicate a 19% drop from November 2007.
06/01/2009
THE MANUFACTURING unions have expressed strong support for establishment of the Steel Industry Innovation Council.
31/07/2009
THE AWU has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to award BlueScope Steel a $20m contract to supply steel for the three new Navy destroyers.
13/05/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Workers Union has released its 30-page New Steel Plan, which it claims will stave off the complete collapse of the iron and steel industry.
20/04/2009
BLUESCOPE Steel says a fire occurred at its Western Port plant Pickle Line building at 12am on 13 May 2009.
13/05/2009
BLUESCOPE Steel has opened a steel service centre in western Sydney, which will produce over 120,000 tonnes of Colorbond steel per year.
02/07/2008
NEW Zealand-based Fletcher Building will buy the Australian steel fabricator Fielders in an effort to expand its production capabilities.
08/10/2008
THE WORLD Steel Association says steel production figures from 2008 indicated a global decline of 1.2% on 2007.
28/01/2009
BLUESCOPE Steel will supply 80% of the steel used by Tyco Water to build 84km of pipe for Victoria’s desalination project, securing 900 jobs at its Hastings facility.
10/09/2009
MINISTER for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr says steel industry executive Cyril Benjamin has been appointed as the new Steel Supplier Advocate.
23/11/2009
JFE Steel, a major Japanese steel producer, has relocated their Australian office to from Sydney to Brisbane.
07/04/2008
THE AUSTRALIAN Workers Union says smart national leadership will be needed if Australia is to avoid the permanent closure of many of its steel mills.
14/04/2009
According to the International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI), the steel can is the world’s most recycled packaging material.
30/01/2008