Steel works at Newcastle, 1926 Stock Photo Alamy
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.
BHP's Newcastle steelworks through the rearview mirror, 20 years after closure Newcastle
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.
A STRIKING VIEW OF THE ORE BERTHS AND STORAGE AREA AT THE NEWCASTLE STEEL WORKS WATERFRONT
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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BHP Newcastle Steelworks, view from the wharf of, left to right, Nos. 3, 2 & 1 Blast Furnaces
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
BHP 20th Anniversary The Newcastle steel industry today Photos Newcastle Herald Newcastle
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;
BHP Newcastle Steel Works, [c. 1915] Living Histories
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.
BHP 20th Anniversary The Newcastle steel industry today Photos Newcastle Herald Newcastle
ABOUT OUR EXPERIENCE. YOUR ADVANTAGE. Established in 1985, Newcastle Steel Works quickly became a trusted partner for major industry players. With our well-equipped and efficient engineering plants, we are able to manufacture and supply a comprehensive range of high-quality Corrugated Iron and IBR products.
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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 20th Anniversary The Newcastle steel industry today Photos Newcastle Herald Newcastle
Now, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the steelworks' closure, we bring you a #RetroFocus look at what the BHP Newcastle steelworks meant to the thousands of "men and women of steel" who worked there. And what was planned for the site which, 20 years on, still sits idle.
BHP 20th Anniversary The Newcastle steel industry today Photos Newcastle Herald Newcastle
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.
BHP Steelworks, Newcastle, NSW, [n.d.] This image was scan… Flickr
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.
Open Hearth, BHP Steel Works, Newcastle, NSW, Australia [n.d.] Living Histories
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.
View of the BHP Steel Works, Newcastle, NSW, Australia [n.d.] Newcastle, Newcastle nsw, Australia
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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.
Flashback Friday BHP Newcastle steelworks closure, 17 years on photos, video Dungog
Aerial of Old Steelworks Mayfield today- Tubemakers Stewart & Lloyds, Rylands AWI, Lysaghts Bluescope, vacant BHP land that the NSW State government refuses.