Whyalla News
Sa Steel On Way
Thursday May 27, 1999
THE first liquid steel was cast from BHP's billet caster in South Australia yesterday, which will eventually source Newcastle's rod, bar and wire mills. After Newcastle's steelworks close in September, the Whyalla plant will supply Newcastle with 750,000 tonnes of steel billets each year. Bhp's Future Cast
Thursday May 27, 1999
BHP Co Ltd has cast the first liquid steel from its new billet caster at its Whyalla steelworks operation in South Australia, a major step in the restructure of its long products steel business. BHP said yesterday the first liquid steel was produced from the operation late on Tuesday. And hoWe Will Cope Without Steelmaking
Tuesday May 25, 1999
THE next few years will be crunch years for Newcastle and the Hunter Valley. In October this year almost 85 years of steelmaking will come to a historic end, and the BHP plant at Port Waratah will become a steel rolling centre fed with billets railed from the company's Whyalla steelworks in South