About BlueScope Steel Limited (ASX: BSL) BlueScope Steel is an international flat steel solutions company, with a manufacturing and marketing footprint spanning Australia, New Zealand, Asia and North America. The Company is the global leader in the provision of high quality metallic coated and painted steel products for the building and construction sector, and also supplies customers in the general manufacturing, automotive and packaging sectors.
BlueScope Steel's strategy is to grow the proportion of its revenue and earnings generated from downstream value-added steel products, by capitalising on high growth markets in Asia, providing leading product and service offers, and through successful inter-material competition based on the superior properties of steel products.
BlueScope Steel's strengths include its unrivalled network of manufacturing facilities in Asia, proprietary coating and painting technologies and strong brands, including COLORBOND® steel, ZINCALUME® steel, the LYSAGHT® range of steel building products and the PROBUILD™ brand of pre-engineered steel buildings. Globally, BlueScope Steel is the worlds largest supplier of aluminium/zinc alloy coated steel and pre-engineered steel buildings.
BlueScope Steel operates a 5.1 million tonnes per annum integrated steelworks at Port Kembla, Australia, a 650,000 tonnes per annum integrated steelworks in New Zealand, and has a 50 per cent interest in a 1.8 mt steel mini-mill in Delta, Ohio. Steel rolling, coating and painting plants are located in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Vietnam, and under construction in India. BlueScope Steel has a network of more than 50 rollforming facilities in 13 countries that is unmatched by any other steel company, and is the market leader in steel pre-engineered buildings in China and North America.
About BlueScope Steel (Thailand) Limited BlueScope Steel (Thailand) Limited was established in 1995 through a joint venture with Loxley Public Company Limited and is one of Thailand’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of metallic coated and painted flat steel products. The Map Ta Phut plant is BlueScope Steel's largest facility in South East Asia, incorporating a cold rolling mill and pickle line (capacity 400,000 tonnes), metallic coating capability (375,000 tonnes) and a paint line (90,000 tonnes). The business employs over 400 people.
The Map Ta Phut facility operates in tandem with BlueScope Steel’s sister plants in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and China, and the Company has new metallic coating and painting facilities under construction in India.
BlueScope Steel (Thailand) produces well-known brands of steel products such as the market leading ZINCALUME®, Clean COLORBOND®, TRUZINC® and GALVASPAN™ steel. |