Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black Chemical Storage at Kaga

Chemical Storage at Kaga

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

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

The basement exit of the ABBCO Bakery sits choked with rubble

molten sparks cascading in every direction

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.