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News Archive 2008

APMA Star Awards 2008 - Awarded Silver for Best Business to Business Promotional Campaign.
04 Dec 08 XLERPLATE® Backs a Winner
The XLERPLATE® 'Backing the Aussie Spirit' 2007 campaign has received two significant marketing awards. [Read more]
Custom Steel Frames in Dubbo - New South Wales' largest steel framing company.
03 Dec 08 Custom Steel Frames Shares Its Success
Custom Steel Frames in Dubbo - New South Wales' largest steel framing company - has developed a highly successful steel framing business and workplace management system, which has been snapped up by three other steel framing businesses in NSW and Tasmania. [Read more]
Roofing, walling and guttering made from COLORBOND® steel is the epitome of Australian style.
03 Dec 08 First Impressions
Make a strong statement with an exterior that will set your home apart [Read more]
Being a strong and lightweight material, COLORBOND® steel allows much design flexibility when it comes to roof shape and layout.
03 Dec 08 Sydney's Evolving Skyline
Sydney's suburban skyline is evolving rapidly as traditional pitched roofs make way for modern and innovative roof designs, both flat and curved. [Read more]
One of the exciting new colours in the COLORBOND® Steel range - Monument®
13 Oct 08 COLORBOND® Steel Inspires The Next Generation Of Roofing Materials
COLORBOND® steel proves yet again why it remains the leader in innovative roofing materials with a new colour range, unique online colour selector tool and technological advancements. [Read more]
The Amoveo prototype unit has roofing and walling clad with LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB® profile and flooring made from LYSAGHT QUIKAFLOOR®
15 May 08 Amoveo’s Portable Buildings Combine Durability And Good Looks
Building products and construction coordination from BlueScope Lysaght have helped transportable housing specialist Amoveo take its modular design to a new level. [Read more]
Aurora Construction is using framing made from TRUECORE® to building on sloping sites at Coomera Waters in the northern Gold Coast region and Edenbrooke Estate in Brisbane’s western suburbs.
06 May 08 Steel Helps Builders On Queensland's Sloping Sites
Due to an increasing shortage of flat land, builders and developers in south east Queensland are using steel to encourage construction on sloping sites that were previously overlooked and considered too expensive to build on. [Read more]
Star Port Constructions' Tony Carrapetta has used BlueScope Steel products for more than 30 years.
30 Apr 08 Star Treatment For Customers
One of Sydney's oldest home improvement companies has downsized to focus on quality carports and awnings for mid to top end homes. Star Port Constructions, which started operations in the 1950s before being bought by current owners Tony and Frank Carrapetta more than 30 years ago, now has 10 employees. [Read more]
Sheenah and Warren Whitten have seen their business, ARC Attack Engineering, boom over the last 10 years. They are members of the STEEL BY™ Brand Partnership Program.
30 Apr 08 Arc Attack Bathes In North Coast Boom
A husband and wife team who started a structural and general engineering business in 1997 on one of Australia's most popular holiday strips now have a full-time staff of 15, after making the most of the possibilities of steel in the economic boom. [Read more]
Terry McCoullough from Tailor Made Steel Buildings is a member of the STEEL BY™ brand partnership program
30 Apr 08 Location A Winner For Tailor Made Steel Buildings
A Victorian man has successfully moved from the transport and trucking business to the steel industry, selling garages and sheds to rural, residential and industrial customers on Melbourne's northern fringe. [Read more]