Slab Cutting lake picking out concrete walls streaked

picking out concrete walls streaked with decay and a ceiling threaded with pipes and conduits that once served a working industrial plant

with engine RPM to the left and propeller pitch to the right

The amenities building that housed it was a separate structure on the same site

supplying blue metal aggregate for road construction across northern Sydney

Slab Cutting lake picking out concrete walls streakedA steel slab taken mid cut, molten sparks cascading in every direction, the scale of the operation filling the frame. This is the basic oxygen and continuous casting era of Port Kembla Steelworks, where slabs produced from 200 250 tonne BOS vessels move through the plant as flat steel destined for domestic and export markets. Australia's largest crude steel production plant, photographed in 2016. Part of the BlueScope Port Kembla series.