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Annual Report 2003

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Summary of Results By Business Segment

COATED PRODUCTS ASIA

Key businesses

  • Cold rolling, metal coating and painting operations in Map Ta Phut, Thailand
  • Metal coating and painting operations in Cilegon, Indonesia
  • Metal coating and painting operations in Kapar, Malaysia
  • Lysaght Asia - 24 roll-forming sites across Asia

Key customers

  • Building and construction industries and general manufacturing

The year's highlights

  • Record safety performance in all parts of the business
  • Annual coating production records in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
  • Opened two new roll-forming facilities in China
  • Plans announced to build a new metallic coating and painting facility in Vietnam
  • Lysaght Asia continued to develop building solutions including Pre-Engineered Buildings (PEBs), SMARTRUSS™ roof frames and POWERDEK™ structural decking
  • Doubled painting capacity in Indonesia
  • Acquired the balance of Indonesian metallic coating business
  • Roll-out of integrated business system in Thailand
  • All steel operating sites achieved ISO 14001 environmental certification

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COATED PRODUCTS AUSTRALIA

Key businesses

  • Hot rolling, metal coating and painting operations in Western Port, Victoria, Australia
  • Metal coating and painting operations in Springhill, Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia
  • Packaging Products in Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia
  • Service centre network - seven sites across Australia
  • Lysaght Australia - 18 roll-forming sites across Australia

Key customers

  • Building, construction, automotive and packaging industries and whitegoods and general manufacturers
The year's highlights
  • Record safety performance in all parts of the business
  • Springhill Works and Packaging Products (Port Kembla) achieved annual production and despatch records
  • Western Port increased metallic coating and painting production through process improvements and upgraded equipment
  • Two new major Lysaght roll-forming sites commenced operations in Victoria and Western Australia
  • Successful launch of new COLORBOND® steel colour range
  • Initiated moves to establish a state-of-the-art COLORBOND® steel centre in western Sydney to service Australia's largest housing growth corridor
  • New Western Port five-year Environment Improvement Plan
  • All steel production sites achieved ISO 14001 environmental certification

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HOT ROLLED PRODUCTS

Key businesses

  • Port Kembla Steelworks in New South Wales, Australia
  • 50% interest in North Star BHP Steel in Ohio, USA
  • 47.5% interest in US-based Castrip LLC

Key customers

  • Engineering, construction, mining and manufacturing industries and export customers who re-roll our steel
The year's highlights
  • Record safety performances at Port Kembla Steelworks and in the USA
  • Record delivery performance from Port Kembla Steelworks
  • Record raw steel production of 5.049 million tonnes
  • North Star BHP Steel rated the No. 1 flat steel producer in the USA by the Jacobson survey
  • Launch of XLER® range of plate and hot rolled coil products
  • Port Kembla Sinter Machine Emission Reduction Project complete
  • Increased environmental focus with launch of five-year Environment Improvement Plan for Port Kembla operations
  • All steel operating sites achieved ISO 14001 environmental certification

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NEW ZEALAND STEEL

Key businesses

  • Integrated steelworks at Glenbrook near Auckland, New Zealand

Key customers

  • Building and construction industry, roll-formers and manufacturing industries
The year's highlights
  • Record safety performance across New Zealand operations
  • Record annual delivery performance
  • Record raw steel production of 0.62 million tonnes
  • Approval to upgrade metallic coating plant to produce an extra 24,000 tpa
  • Achieved ISO 14001 environmental certification

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