COLORBOND® steel Matt Indonesia Launching Program – BlueScope Australia Tour 2023

COLORBOND® steel Matt Indonesia Launching Program – BlueScope Australia Tour 2023

28 October – 1 November 2023, The COLORBOND® steel Indonesia team, with customers (Roll-Former Partners), joined a tour as part of the COLORBOND® steel Matt Launching Program, with a visit to one of Australia's national projects, the Australian National Maritime Museum. This museum preserves the history of developments from the past to the present in Australian maritime affairs through art gallery exhibitions, artifacts, and other exhibits.

This museum is also located on the edge of the sea waters of the harbour. Standing proudly, this building looks elegant and modern with the dark gray color of COLORBOND® steel. The museum has one of the largest and most diverse in-water fleets in the world, including the Cold War submarine HMAS Onslow, naval destroyer HMAS Vampire, and the stunning replica of Captain Cook's tall ship HMB Endeavour

Even though it contains historical relics from the past, this building still looks modern, contemporary and aesthetic.

The form was inspired by the techniques and geometrical rigour of boat building while the conceptual approach closely referenced the wake of a boat as it passes though the water. The COLORBOND® steel Indonesia team was welcomed and accompanied directly by the Project Manager from Australian National Maritime Museum.

The main part of the BlueScope Australia tour program is to bring the Indonesian team to visit to BlueScope Australia Factory & Innovation Lab at Port Kembla and BlueScope Lysaght Australia at Emu Plains.

 The Port Kembla Steelworks has a production capacity of just over 3 million tonnes of steel per anum. COLORBOND® steel Indonesia team and customers (Roll-Former partners) are being guided by Mr Rod Hall-National Product Technical Representative Team Leader, Australian Steel Products, Andrew Collins-Product Prototyping & Evaluation Manager, Australian Steel Products and Genevieve Fox-Global Marketing Coordinator.

During the COLORBOND® steel Indonesia team & customers' trip to the BlueScope Australia factory & Innovation Lab at Port Kembla and BlueScope LYSAGHT® Australia at Emu Plains, the team had the opportunity to see firsthand the process of making COLORBOND® steel color-coated steel and also existing technological developments.

The team visited the BlueScope LYSAGHT Australia warehouse and production facilities in Sydney, specifically in the Emu Plains area. The team observed product samples and applications of a wide range of Australian LYSAGHT products, focusing particularly on the ZENITH Architectural Cladding series.

  This visit was assisted by:

Diny Walker as Global Marketing Manager, BlueScope Steel. Blake Tasker as Marketing Manager, Lysaght. Nathan Jack, National Manager as Design Solutions Group, Lysaght. Robert Portelli as Sales & Marketing Manager, Lysaght. Michael Porfida as Research & Innovation Manager, Lysaght. Will Pereyra as Architectural Design Solutions Business Development Manager, NSW, Lysaght. Observing the production of building material profiles made from coated steel, such as those used for roofs and walls.

The team also visited the BlueScope Building Components Research & Technology, Minchinbury as a research facility and testing process components/products/profiles related to the application roofs, walls and building structures.

BlueScope LYSAGHT Australia has a flagship profile, namely the profile series called ZENITH Architectural Cladding.The ZENITH® series offers five attractive profile types that add dynamic visual texture to modern architectural designs.

Several profiles from ZENITH® are also produced in Indonesia, using the profile brands LYSAGHT LOCKED SEAM®, SELECT SEAM® III and PRESTIGE PANEL® II