Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black its metal frame heavy with

its metal frame heavy with rust after years of disuse

Conveyor Eight lies collapsed across the concrete floor of the processing shed at Hornsby Quarry

coated in dust

Yubari: rows of faded green tiles lining the walls of empty cubicles

Rows of timber A-frames and corrugated iron slowly losing the fight against weather and time at the Smith Street workshop

Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black its metal frame heavy withRusting 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.