Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black coated in dust

coated in dust

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

A screening conveyor sits rusting within Hornsby Quarry

even when the street was otherwise empty

The basement exit of the ABBCO Bakery sits choked with rubble

Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black coated in dustRusting 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.