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Steel InTouch QLD #6:Layout 1 14/9/06 3:02 PM Page 2 steelintouch News for Queensland Customers ISSUE NUMBER 6 SPRING 2006 You also want to know more about major projects in other States. We’ll bring this to you – along with more product WELCOME information, feature stories and economic information. ® Welcome to the Spring 2006 edition of XLERPLATE Steel In In this edition we announce the winner of our reader Touch. Back in November 2004, we launched our first issue competition (see back for details). Moving to the big – so a big ‘thank you’ for your interest and ongoing support. picture, we also look at China’s robust economy. We’ve now conducted a reader survey to gauge how On behalf of Steel In Touch and the XLERPLATE® steel we are going – and you’ve come back to us with team, thanks again for all your feedback and support. strong feedback. We had a great response, with the majority of readers either happy or delighted with Steel In Touch. You like what you’re reading about innovative Tony Fotea uses of steel and developments in the industry. State Sales Manager - Queensland ZAFIRIADIS STEEL CARVES ITS NAME IN NRL HISTORY Work is underway on the Gold Coast’s $160 million Robina Stadium that will be home to new NRL side the Gold Coast Titans from 2008. Watpac Construction is building the 25,000-seat rectangular venue. It will use about 3,000 tonnes of XLERPLATE® steel supplied by Smorgon Steel. “We’ve sourced Grade 250 XLERPLATE® steel for the main columns and 25-60mm Grade 350 XLERPLATE® N TOUCH steel for other elements,” Smorgon’s Sales Manager of Business Development Tony Wheeler said. The plan includes a 500-seat function room, “It’s a flagship job because it’s a stadium with a 100 open corporate boxes, 25 closed corporate unique design.” suites and 16 food and beverage outlets. The bulk of the superstructure is a steel-framed The Queensland Government’s Major Sports bowl covered by a curved 23,000 square metre Facilities Authority will own and operate Robina fabric roof. A four-level steel-framed grandstand Stadium and plans to use it as a venue for rugby will sit on the western side of the stadium. union and soccer as well as NRL. steelintouch 1 Steel InTouch QLD #6:Layout 1 14/9/06 3:02 PM Page 3 News for Queensland Customers www.xlerplate.com.au XLERPLATE® STEEL TAPS UNTOUCHED WATERS Pipes made by a Brisbane company are the key “Some of the pipes are to tapping into an extra 40 billion litres of water a six metres long with a year for Sydney residents. diameter of 2.7 metres Rollpress Proplate Group (RPG) has manufactured so they’re three times pipes, some weighing up to 20 tonnes, to access as big as a car,” he said. deeper water at Warragamba Dam for emergency “We delivered 28 water supplies. truckloads to Warragamba While the dam Dam and most were 65km west of over-dimensional – some Sydney can single loads weighing provide the city close to 20 tonnes.” an extra six months water Mr Kearns said RPG during an cut and rolled Grade 250 extreme drought, XLERPLATE® steel into 10 per cent of its A pipe section in RPG's Brisbane workshop. pipes, welded necessary water capacity The pipes will be used to pump water from the flanges, manufactured branch lines and clutch remains untapped because it sits below the lowest bottom of Warragamba Dam to a treatment plant plates and assembled them at the company’s outlet point. at the top. Work on both has been completed. Wacol factory. The pipes are part of a modification project RPG’s Sales and Marketing General Manager Richard being carried out by engineering and construction Kearns said the $2 million dollar pipeline contract was “The pipes are hydro-tested and pressurised to company Baulderstone Hornibrook to build new a complex one and RPG was proud to be associated 20 bar, so they can withstand more than three times pumping stations and pipelines for the dam. with Baulderstone Hornibrook on the project. the pressure applied to average household pipes.” CHINA FORGES FURTHER AHEAD UPGRADE TO China’s economy is now the fourth Apparent Use of Finished Steel Per Capita 1995 vs 2005 largest in the world, having recently Kg of Finished Steel Per Person Kg ROLLING MILL overtaken the UK. China’s share of 700 1995 2005 world GDP, on a Purchasing Power 600 The Port Kembla Steelworks Plate Mill Parity (PPP) basis has quadrupled undertook a refit of Rolling Stand One incoming 500 over the last 25 years to almost side guards in July. Stand One outgoing side 16 per cent last year. 400 guards will also be replaced soon. Beyond 2006, construction 300 The Stand One side guards had not been investment is expected to continue 200 replaced for three years and the mechanical growing but at more sustainable equipment had experienced substantial wear. 100 levels. Meanwhile, the manufacturing The side guards are an integral part of the sector continues to expand 0 Australia Japan USA China Russia India Brazil Thailand set-up for Stand One rolling mill and edger. aggressively and China’s positive Source: IISI They are also responsible for centring the net export position is expected to that if the Chinese economy continues to grow steel in the rolling mill to ensure accurate improve further. at its current pace, there is strong potential for plate width measurements. Investment in the steel industry has risen more further healthy steel consumption growth. “Before the refit our operators had to allow than 400 per cent since 2001, which now sees Of some concern however, is that while economic for 10-40mm of margin when rolling China account for one in every three tonnes of growth has brought improved living standards, XLERPLATE® steel,” Plate Mill Manager steel produced and consumed globally. growth has not been totally benign. Pollution Gerard Mahoney said. There are now eight steel makers in China producing is damaging agricultural land and human health “The refit has reduced that margin to just plus over 10 million tonnes a year, or 30 per cent of in the major cities as the basic air and water or minus 2mm, allowing us to deliver a better total Chinese production. China’s demand for raw quality standards continue to deteriorate. quality product to customers because the materials, including iron ore, has soared to meet the Addressing environmental issues remains one of plates will be closer to the ordered width.” needs of the steel industry and general economy. the government's main challenges into the future. The Plate Mill plans to roll at least 388,000 China’s per capita steel consumption has grown The government is likely to make companies invest tonnes of XLERPLATE® steel this financial year. dramatically over the past 10 years. The experience in more stringent emission control technology, of Japan and other developed economies suggests which will add to their costs of production. 2 steelintouch Steel InTouch QLD #6:Layout 1 14/9/06 3:02 PM Page 4 News for Queensland Customers SAFETY MESSAGE: MACKAY COMPANY APS CROSSING DANGER Fewer than one MINES SEAM OF SUCCESS per cent of all Queensland company The Anderson Group road fatalities is setting the pace as a rapidly growing result from service provider to Australia’s booming S crashes between coal mining industry. trains and road vehicles, yet Established in Mackay in 1994, the group nearly all such has steadily grown and now has branches accidents result in Newcastle and Wollongong (NSW). in death. The Anderson Group consists of Anderson While most Industries, Anderson Mine Services and fatal road/rail Anderson Mining Hire. crashes involve Anderson Mine Services now ranks as one cars, 15 per of Australia’s leading underground coal Anderson Mine Services Company Director Greg Anderson. cent involve mining services contractors, specialising in heavy trucks. the design, fabrication and installation of underground mining operation. Their design, A recent Australian study indicated that drivers’ mine ventilation devices including stoppings, fabrication and installation are areas where our failure to take sufficient care or action was the seals, regulators, machine doors, man doors expertise has made us dominant in the Queensland major cause of such crashes. and overcasts. market, and we are now poised to expand into NSW. More than 80 per cent of road/rail crashes happen Anderson Mine Services’ fabrication department “We manufacture machine doors and man doors in daylight, in fine weather and on straight, dry manufactures ventilation and methane drainage used in mines and regulators, which can be roads. More than half happen at crossings with systems, mining consumables and specifically designed adjusted to control the amount of air movement electronic warning systems. And more than products to support the underground coal industry. within a mine,” Mr Anderson said. 60 per cent of drivers and motorcyclists are hit by Anderson Mine Services makes extensive use “Our overcast structures separate fresh intake trains – rather than running into the sides of trains. of XLERPLATE® steel in the fabrication of air and contaminated return air. They can be very Please remember, when you see a sign indicating ventilation devices. simple or quite complex and generally they are all a railway crossing: “We use steel from BlueScope Steel, which we unique to suit the particular circumstances for source through OneSteel, because we never which they are designed.” • Slow down have any problem with quality and their technical These overcasts, designed as modular units, • Look and listen carefully support is everything that you could want,” are fabricated in the Anderson Mine Services • Always assume there’s a train on the track.