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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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