Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black Chemical Storage at Kaga

Chemical Storage at Kaga

its metal frame heavy with rust after years of disuse

Rows of timber A-frames and corrugated iron slowly losing the fight against weather and time at the Smith Street workshop

rust blooming across the barrel

Yubari: rows of faded green tiles lining the walls of empty cubicles

Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black Chemical Storage at KagaRusting 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.