Port Kembla · Harbour to finished plate

Illustrative steelworks · planned reheat configuration
Harbour receipt Bulk carrier Grab unloader Ore receiving hopper Ore conveyor Ore outlet Stockyard routes Stacker-reclaimer Yard tripper Ore stockpile Coal stockpile Flux stockpile Ore transfer tower Ore fines outlet Lump burden outlet Coking coal outlet Injection coal outlet Flux outlet Coke making Coke oven battery Coal bunker Charging car Oven pusher Coke quench car Quench tower Coke screen Coke products Coke gas outlet Sinter making Proportioning bins Mixing drum Granulating drum Travelling grate Ignition hood Windboxes Off-gas collector Sinter breaker Annular cooler Sinter screen Screened sinter product Sinter → stockhouse hopper Return fines to mixer Pulverized-coal injection PCI coal receiving stock Front-end loader Coal mixing hopper Bucket elevator Raw-coal screen Screen rejects Raw-coal bin Mill and dryer BF-gas hot-gas generator Classifier Bag filter Pulverized-coal silo Injection pressure hoppers PCI distributor Individual tuyere branches Furnace stockhouse Coke bin Sinter bin Lump-burden bin Flux bin Screens and weigh hoppers Collecting belt CS2 charging gallery Scrap and flux preparation Prepared scrap bay Scrap magnet crane Purchased flux silos Lime silo Dolomite silo Flux bin transfer Rail turnout Rail bridge Road and pipe bridge Service road Creek corridor Blast and furnace gas Cold-blast blower Cleaned BF gas Coke-gas cleaning Coke-gas holder Water circulation Water-treatment plant Clarifier Cooling cells Industrial gases Air-separation plant Oxygen main BOS off-gas cleaning Off-gas flare header Dust recovery Ladle-repair bay Furnace Stoves Head tanks CS2 burden conveyor Furnace charging hopper Top bleeder valves Dust catcher Gas cleaning Tap hole Skimmer Torpedo car Slag pot · road transfer No. 6 pot carrier Air-cooled slag pit Slag road Shunting locomotive BOS hall BOS converter Overhead crane Hot-metal receiving pit Steel ladle BOS slag pot BOS slag carrier BOS slag rail car BOS slag pit CAS-OB treatment Optional vacuum degassing Slab caster Ladle crane Refractory shroud Tundish Mould Continuous strand Representative slab Slab rail wagon Caster four-prong crane Yard crane Slab bolsters Reheat entry Planned walking-beam reheat Burner rows Recuperator Reheat flue stack Plate rolling Rolling hall Finishing hall Roughing stand Finishing stand Descaler Plate runout Hot leveller Cooling bed Oxy-cutting bed Inspection bridge Plate marking Finishing crane Edge offcuts Crop pieces Plate stack Finished uncoated plate
Harbour unloading
Illustrative sequence · raw materials through steelmaking and plate finishing
Sources and configuration

Equipment layout, dimensions, routes, component counts and timing are illustrative, not a surveyed plant model. The selected-heat tour compresses the narrated route into 573 seconds. Continuous production runs concurrent cycles with material handoffs, a filled starting caster and finite intermediate buffers. Its clocks and throughput are illustrative, not BlueScope operating rates. Plates accumulate in five stacks of twenty; all five clear after the crane lifts away, and production continues.

The furnace CS2 conveyor feeds its charging hopper. Screened sinter feeds the stockhouse; undersize returns to sinter preparation. These are material routes, not waste stockpile conveyors. BlueScope No. 6 reline response · BlueScope sinter flows. Continuous casting uses a tundish to bridge ladle changes: Colorado School of Mines casting overview.

The walking-beam reheat is a planned configuration; BlueScope’s August 2026 report scheduled commissioning for mid-2027. August 2026 project report · Plate Mill Modernisation.

Process relationships are informed by the No. 6 Blast Furnace reline EIS, the ARENA PCI study and the European Commission historical iron and steel BREF.