BlueScope Steel - Spotlight on Steel Newsletter
Issue 56: April 2006 Archives Subscribe www.bluescopesteel.com.au

Welcome to "Spotlight on Steel" - a monthly electronic newsletter, delivering the latest steel initiatives, product news, information and promotions at BlueScope Steel, to members of the BlueScope Steel Website.

NEWSLETTER CONTENTS

1. Agpoint Breaks Ground with XLERPLATE®
2.
SupaPurlins Save Time and Money for IPS Logistics
3. LYSAGHT W-DEK® Accelerates Parking Station Construction
4. Wenco Prepares Steel for Its Toughest Test
5. How Do We Measure Up?
6. New Datasheets
7. Fast Facts

This Month's Feature Article
1. Agpoint Breaks Ground With XLERPLATE®

After 139 years in the agricultural manufacturing industry, South Australia's Agpoint has a long standing reputation for the quality and reliability of its products. In the last decade, changes in agricultural practices have led to an increasing demand for longer wearing and stronger products. Which is why Agpoint turned to BlueScope Steel. Read more at:

http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=56Agpoint


2. SupaPurlins Save Time and Money for IPS Logistics

IPS Logistics Group is nearing completion of a warehouse construction project that will give it a major increase in capacity at the Port of Brisbane. The company, founded in 1996 in Narrabri in New South Wales as a baled cotton handler, now has purpose built port facilities in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Find out how LYSAGHT® SupaPurlins helped in the construction at:
http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=56Supapurlins


3. LYSAGHT W-DEK® Accelerates Parking Station Construction

An Adelaide steel fabrication and building company will add the operation of another commercial car park to its list of accomplishments when its latest project is completed just in time for the Christmas rush. The 600 vehicle multi-storey carpark at Gilles Street in the CBD will be the first major project in Adelaide to use LYSAGHT W-DEK®. Read more at:
http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=56Parking


4. Wenco Prepares Steel for its Toughest Test

Wenco Pty Ltd of O'Connor in Western Australia, one of Australia's most widely experienced and best equipped heavy engineering companies, is in the final stages of a unique fabrication project to return steel to the blast furnace which produced it. They are well ahead of schedule to fabricate outer dome plate sections for major maintenance work on the No.5 Blast Furnace at BlueScope Steel's Port Kembla Steelworks. Read more at:
http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=56Wenco


5. How Do We Measure Up?

As a subscriber to Spotlight on Steel we would like to know how you feel about our newsletter. Your feedback and suggestions will assist us with improving our service to you, our customer. Every respondent will receive a limited edition BlueScope Steel gift as a token of our appreciation. Let us know what you think at:
http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=56Manufacturer


6. New Datasheets

Do you need to know the exact composition of our steel grades, what their mechanical properties are, or other detailed information about our plate steel grades? We have just updated all of our XLERPLATE® steel datasheets to include the latest specifications. You can find them at:
http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=56Datasheets


7. Fast Facts...
  • The English name "Easter" is derived from the ancient name for April, Eostremonat. This month has been said to be dedicated to the pagan fertility goddess Eostre. However in most non-English Christian societies the holiday's name is derived from Pesach, the Hebrew name of Passover.
  • Decorated eggs have been exchanged by cultures across the world well before they were incorporated into the Easter tradition. Both eggs and rabbits are age-old fertility symbols.
  • Chocolate Easter eggs were first made in Europe in the early 1800s. Colourful decorative foil wrappings were first used after World War II.
  • There are about 200 million Easter eggs sold per annum in Australia, and last year each person in Australia ate an average of 10 eggs.

Thanks for reading,

Matt Lynch
BlueScope Steel - Internet Manager


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