The Gasworks' [Blast Furnaces, Newcastle Steel Works]. A vintage gelatin silver photograph
2000 BHP announces plans to 'spin off' Whyalla, Sydney mini-mill and Newcastle mills.Demolition of steelworks starts. July: BHP signs Newcastle 'exit' deal with NSW government. State to get 2400ha of BHP land and $100million for steelworks remediation. 150ha at steelworks, 230 ha on Kooragang, 500 ha at Belmont, and 1500ha straddling F3 at West Wallsend.
Flashback Friday BHP Newcastle steelworks closure, 17 years on photos, video Dungog
Major Projects Group has the distinction of undertaking one of the largest demolition projects ever conducted in Australia in the demolition of the Newcastle BHP steelworks. With a value of over $30 million, the BHP steelworks demolition was a complex project, and our Group helped to ensure that it proceeded with minimal risk to workers.
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Newcastle Steelworks' Labour History, 59, 1990, 28-44. 2. 'Aspects of Decision Making in a Monopoly - BHP and the 1945 Steel Strike', Australian Economic History Review, March 1982, 1-27; 'A Case Study in Complexity: The Origins of the 1945 Steel Strike in New South Wales', Labour History, No.41, November 1918, 87-109;
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newsroom February 14, 2022 6:49 am. The NSW Government is looking to kickstart new industry in the Hunter, calling for proposals to repurpose a 52-hectare BHP site at Newcastle. Registrations of Interest are being sought to transform the former steelworks site with innovative new uses, providing a boost for employment and the local economy.
Open Hearth, BHP Steel Works, Newcastle, NSW, Australia [n.d.] Living Histories
ArcelorMittal Newcastle Steel Works, also known as ArcelorMittal South Africa Long Steel Products, is a 1900 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel plant operating in Newcastle, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.. Location. The map below shows the location of the steel plant in Newcastle, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.
A STRIKING VIEW OF THE ORE BERTHS AND STORAGE AREA AT THE NEWCASTLE STEEL WORKS WATERFRONT
Scores of former steelworkers will today mark the 10 year anniversary of the closure of Newcastle's BHP steelworks. For 84 years Newcastle was known as a steel city. BHP was the city's biggest.
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The Newcastle steelworks was once the beating heart of Australia's industrial sector. Today, former employees are gathering to commemorate 100 years since the steelworks opened.
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In the early 1980s, global steel demand collapsed, competition from Asian steel producers grew and the profitability of the Newcastle steelworks suffered as a result. The closure of steelworks in 1999 was thought to be Australia's "largest deindustrialization event" at the time. This brief examines the transition pre- and post-closure.
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Opened in 1915 and closed in 1999, BHP's Newcastle steelworks employed more than 50 000 people, providing opportunities to belong to the workplace for generations of families from Newcastle and the Hunter Valley, European immigrants and, significantly, Aboriginal people who could walk 'through the gates of BHP, could put their hands up and.
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The Newcastle Steelworks was built by BHP in Newcastle, New South Wales. Construction commenced in January 1913, with operations commencing in March 1915. It was officially opened on 2 June 1915 by Governor-General Ronald Munro Ferguson. [1] Newcastle was selected due to its proximity to the Hunter Valley coalfields with the iron ore shipped.
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1992 Newcastle Steelworks Improvement Agreement negotiated with unions, linking wage increases to efficiency gains: BHP used consultants McKinseys, 5000 cost-cutting ideas proposed; Sydney Mini-Mill commissioned (still providing feed to Liberty Steel's Mayfield mills) 1993 Bob Kirkby replaces Jeans as GM. 1994 Single logo unites BHP
BHP's Newcastle steelworks through the rearview mirror, 20 years after closure Newcastle
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BHP Newcastle Steel Works, [c. 1915] Living Histories
BHP's Newcastle steelworks through the rear-view mirror, 20 years after closure; BHP Newcastle 20 years on: Former employees of BHP in Newcastle look back on the city's generation of steel; BHP's book of the lost found - ledger of fallen workers
Steel works at Newcastle, 1926 Stock Photo Alamy
Closing Day at BHP's Newcastle Steelworks is taken from the film Steel City (55 mins), produced in 2000.. Steel City: The employees of the BHP steelworks in Newcastle are bracing themselves for Australia's largest industrial shutdown. Many have spent their entire working lives at the plant. With one month to go, they're struggling to come to terms with an uncertain future.
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20-YEARS-ON | CLOSURE OF THE BHP STEELWORKS. For 84 years, the BHP steelworks played such an important role in Newcastle's development, they were seen as inseparable. Two decades on, we take a look back at how the closure affected the former Steel City, and how an immense challenge was turned into opportunity.
BHP Newcastle Steelworks, view from the wharf of, left to right, Nos. 3, 2 & 1 Blast Furnaces
How did Newcastle cope with the loss of its steelworks industry? This brief from Stockholm Environment Institute explores the social, economic and environmental impacts and lessons of the transition, based on interviews and literature review.
