New Zealand & Pacific Islands

New Zealand Steel and Pacific Islands business comprises the Waikato North Head mine, the Glenbrook steelworks, the Pacific Steel rolling mill, and the Pacific Islands businesses.

 

New Zealand Steel

Our New Zealand and Pacific Islands business comprises the Waikato North Head mine, the Glenbrook steelworks, the Pacific Steel rolling mill and the Pacific Islands businesses.

New Zealand Steel, the only fully integrated steel producer in New Zealand, uses locally-sourced iron sand and coal to manufacture about 650,000 tonnes of steel slab and billet a year at the Glenbrook steelworks south of Auckland. It produces a range of flat and long steel products for domestic and export use, and supplies all major markets including construction, manufacturing, infrastructure, packaging and agriculture.

The integrated steelmaking process starts with the Waikato North Head iron sands mine, which supplies approximately 1.2 mtpa of iron sands concentrate to the Glenbrook Steelworks, sufficient to meet its annual production requirements. The mine is operated under a long-term exclusive license with the New Zealand government.

The Glenbrook steelworks comprises ironmaking, steelmaking, a slab and billet caster, a hot and cold rolling mill, galvanising line, a paint line and a hollow sections mill. Slabs are rolled into hot and cold rolled products, which are then sold or further processed into products like hollow sections, galvanised steel, ZINCALUME® and COLORSTEEL® roofing products. Steel billets are produced at Glenbrook and sent via rail to Pacific Steel rolling mill for domestic reinforcing and wire products.

 

Our New Zealand and Pacific Islands business employs around 1400 people ad includes:

Pacific Steel New Zealand, acquired by BlueScope in 2014 as a long product business (rolling mill and wire drawing facilities)

The Pacific Islands business, with facilities in Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu which manufacture and distribute the LYSAGHT® range of products.

BlueScope LYSAGHT® (Fiji) Limited

BlueScope Lysaght (Fiji) Ltd began operating in1968. The LYSAGHT® brand is synonymous with quality, innovation and technical excellence in Fiji and throughout Asia and the South Pacific. Our manufactured products are all ISO 9002 certified and extensively tested for the cyclonic conditions in Fiji and the South Pacific.

 

We manufacture and supply the following quality products:

  • Roofing and cladding profiles: LYSAGHT KLIP-LOK®, LYSAGHT TRIMDEK®, LYSAGHT SUPERLUME®, and LYSAGHT MORCLAD® roofing and cladding profiles.
  • Purlins and girts in both Cee and Zed profiles.
  • Structural decking: LYSAGHT BONDEK®.
  • Roofing and rainwater accessories: Flashings, ridging, gutters, and water tanks.
  • Cyclonic fasteners and screws.

We supply a full range of accessories including insulation, ventilators and translucent sheeting, and also supply pre-engineered buildings.

We export to all South Pacific countries including Tonga, Samoa, American Samoa, New Caledonia, Tahiti, Wallis and Futuna, Solomons, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Marshall Islands.

New Caledonia

New Caledonia is the headquarters of the BlueScope LYSAGHT® Pacific Region operations, comprising roll forming centres in Noumea, Vanuatu and Fiji.

Our Noumea factory manufactures LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB™, LYSAGHT KLIP-LOK™ 406 and LYSAGHT TRIMDEK™ roofing and cladding profiles. We supply curved sheeting in both corrugated and LYSAGHT TRIMDEK™ profiles.

We also make a range of purlins and accessories such as flashing, ridging, guttering and profiles. As an additional service to our customers, we supply a full range of fasteners and accessories, such as insulation, screws, tools, ventilators, translucent and polycarbonate sheetings, LYSAGHT INTERLOK™ GRATING, LYSAGHT BONDEK™ and LYSAGHT MINI ORB™.

In addition, we provide international consulting and quality and safety improvement and certification assistance.

BlueScope LYSAGHT® Vanuatu

BlueScope LYSAGHT® Vanuatu manufactures a range of roofing and walling products from ZINCALUME® steel and COLORBOND® steel, including LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB®, purlins and flashings. We have capabilities for curving roofing and cladding. We also supply locally LYSAGHT KLIP-LOK® and LYSAGHT TRIMDEK® roofing and cladding, manufactured by our New Caledonia operation.

We are moving into the manufacture and marketing of kit form steel warehouses, houses, prefabricated carports and water tanks to be able to supply the market with universal beams, taper flange beams, flat sheet, merchant bar and pipes. Our new capability will enable us to repair public works infrastructure and engines.