Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black Heavy steel gates rusted shut

Heavy steel gates rusted shut at the main entrance to the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

even when the street was otherwise empty

rust blooming across the barrel

A screening conveyor sits rusting within Hornsby Quarry

Chemical Storage at Kaga

Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black Heavy steel gates rusted shutRusting beams and abandoned control panels fill the Slab Caster Plant at Port Kembla Steelworks, the machinery that replaced open hearth steelmaking standing idle in a space built for continuous production. Continuous slab casting was first commissioned at Port Kembla in 1978, part of a shift away from ingot casting that would transform the entire steelmaking process. Part of the BlueScope Port Kembla series.