Steel mill produces first slabs
' PA Auckland » The expanded Glen- ; brook steel mill has produced New Zealand’s first ’ steel slabs. The South ■ Auckland mill previously ; made only steel billets. New Zealand Steel, ■ Ltd’s, managing director, Mr Lindsay Fergusson, » announced yesterday that J it had produced the first « 20-tonne slab. * “This takes us into high- . tech manufacturing,” he • said. “We are one step r closer to becoming a com- ; plete steel mill.” ■ The slab was cast on a ; $3O million machine and follows on the completion of stage one of the expansion project. When stage two is finished at the end of this • year the company will be able to process the slabs further in its own rolling ; mills. Until then it will i export the slabs. It has * the capacity to make i 500,000 tonnes a year.
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Press, 21 February 1987, Page 31
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