Description

On 13 July 2022, our Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) facility at the Port Kembla Steelworks celebrates its 50th anniversary! This crucial piece of our  infrastructure in Australia converts liquid iron into steel. To mark this significant milestone, we spoke to people at the BOS about their experiences at the site and how things have changed.

Chapters

1. Introduction: 0:00
2. People of the BOS: 0:51
3. Kamini Wijekulasuriya and Heather Collins: 1:15
4. Fadel Elsayed: 9:46
5. Pamela Nyachoto: 16:56
6. Ramirro Berto: 24:14
7. Edward Cook: 30:12
8. Conclusion: 36:32

Links

• Read a transcript of the episode.
• Explore further video interviews in the TVBlueScope  playlist: 50 Years of Basic Oxygen Steelmaking.
• FocusOn Basic Oxygen Steelmaking — the BOS(TVBlueScope video)
• 8. Modern-day Pioneers of the BOS ( podcast episode)
• Bundy cards (not a sponsored inclusion)
• A lime kiln is a kiln in which limestone is burnt or calcined to produce quicklime.
• COLORBOND® steel
• Learn more about blast furnace technology in Major Projects at the Port Kembla Steelworks(TVBlueScope video).
• Slag
• Fadel refers to the Kembla Times; instead, see him photographed as a featured employee (left) in Volume 1 Issue 010 of BHP Flat Chat (pp. 1, 6) from July 1997, which celebrated the 25th anniversary of the BOS.
• Namibia
• Blue Boots is our long-term recruitment campaign for diversity in Australia.
• Personal protective equipment
• Warrawong, New South Wales
• Boilermaker
• John Nowlan is Chief Executive at BlueScope Australian Steel Products (ASP).
• Ramirro refers to the 'iLabs at the CRM'; learn more in FocusOn BlueScope's Innovation Laboratories (TVBlueScope video).
• Andrew Collins is Product Prototyping & Evaluation Manager at ASP.
• Profilometry
• Learn more about pilot-scale hydrogen electrolyser technology in Electrical Energy into Chemical Energy (TVBlueScope video).
• Lost-time injury
• View a screenshot of the editing timeline for this episode.

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• TVBlueScope on YouTube

Credits

• Edited by Martin Feld
• Recording and interviewing by Craig Nealon and Tim Robinson