BlueScope Steel

BlueScope Steel is a flat product steel producer with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Pacific and North America. It was spun off from BHP Billiton in 2002 as BHP Steel and renamed BlueScope Steel on 17 November 2003. Its Australian Securities Exchange code is BSL. The corporate headquarters are located in the Bluescope Steel Centre at 120 Collins Street, Melbourne. The company employs 17,500 personnel currently with 1000 jobs to be axed over the coming months. It has its largest operating plant, an integrated steelworks, at Port Kembla, near Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, had an annual production of 5 million tonnes of steel. In October 2011, No6 Blast furnace, one of two at Port Kembla, was shut down, reducing...