BlueScope Steel has announced plans to reduce production at it Western Port facility, in a move that is expected to cut 170 jobs.
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Cheap US gas prices could make BlueScope direct reduced iron factory viable
BlueScope Steel is believed to be considering a direct reduced iron plant at its Ohio site.
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Rio Tinto warns that Gove operations could be suspended
The operations of Rio Tinto’s troubled Gove aluminium refinery in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, are at risk of being suspended.
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Man stable after Tomago steel accident
A 55-year-old man is in a stable condition after being struck by a large piece of steel, reportedly three metres long, in Tomago's industrial estate yesterday.
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BlueScope blast furnace shuts for maintenance
BlueScope Steel’s last remaining working blast furnace has been shut down for maintenance early this morning.
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Joint venture development for Pasminco site terminated
Remediation work at Pasminco’s Cockle Creek smelter, the world’s biggest zinc producer, near New South Wales, is in its finishing stages and is expected to complete by next year, the Herald reports.
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High energy costs affect manufacturers
‘Australian manufacturing industry was suffering,’ David Ferguson general manager of Victoria’s largest privately owned steel distributor Surdex Steel said.
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Steel recycling pilot plant to be trialled in Adelaide
Melbourne-based Metallic Waste Solutions has been awarded close to $2 million in Federal Government funding to build a commercial scale pilot plant to recover zinc by-products at its Adelaide steel recycling plant.
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Iron and steel manufacturing to fall a further 15% in FY2012-13, researchers predict
Australia’s troubled iron and steel manufacturing industry is expected to fall 15.6% in FY2012-13, new research predicts.
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