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April 4, 2025 Industry News Rio Tinto Spends Record $10 Billion With Suppliers In Western Australia In 2024 Rio Tinto boosted spending with suppliers in Western Australia by AU$1.5 billion to a record $10.3 billion in 2024, as it continued to support local businesses and develop its pipeline of new Pilbara mining projects. The increase […]
March 31, 2025 Press Release Steel & Tube Introduces Its QBT450 For the first time in five years, New Zealand has a new metal roofing profile available to the public. In Steel & Tube´s QBT450TM stunning European-inspired tray roofing meets modern and innovative thinking to form a competitive and high-performing roofing system. Tray-style roofing and […]
March 27, 2025 Industry News Rio Tinto Pays $8.4 Billion In Taxes And Royalties In 2024 Rio Tinto has published its 2024 Taxes And Royalties Paid Report which details US$8.4 billion of taxes and royalties paid globally during the year. In Australia, taxes and royalties totalling $6.3 billion (A$9.5 billion) were paid in 2024, including […]
April 7, 2025 New Zealand News Early Hints The Economy Is Crawling Out Of Recession New Zealand is navigating a complex landscape of financial challenges, shifting global trade dynamics and subdued demand – particularly in the construction sector – with “sticky” inflation in key operational areas. The country is also experiencing a relatively weak exchange […]
April 7, 2025 Steel Market Summary – International Trump´s Tariffs Bring Turmoil To World Trade Not content with a 25% tariff on steel and aluminium being imported into the United States, Donald Trump used his self-proclaimed “Liberation Day” to announce a minimum 10% tariff on all products from all countries in the world – and […]
April 7, 2025 Steel Market Summary – Australia Domestic Issues Impacted By Unwelcome Foreign Forces The Australian steel industry holds its breath as Whyalla wobbles and world trade is thrown into turmoil by Donald Trump´s tariffs. Meanwhile, InfraBuild has its own set of problems, as well. As previously mentioned in ASN, InfraBuild´s unaudited finances were […]
Special Product Feature STEEL FABRICATORS Market Commentary by: Mark Cain, CEO, Australian Steel Institute* The Australian Steel Institute (ASI) is working with state and federal governments to support Australian steel fabricators and manufacturers who have been undercut by a surge in low-priced, imported fabricated steel. The action comes on the back of a 2024 survey […]
March 18, 2025 Steel Market Summary – Australia InfraBuild Slides Under The Burden Of Its GFG Alliance In businesses large and small right around Australia the message from management to employees is the same: if you work hard and successfully, you´ll be rewarded as the company prospers. However, this theory can come unstuck if you´re […]
February 25, 2025 Industry News Sims Limited Announces First Half Results Of Fiscal Year 2025 Sims Limited (the Group) today announced an underlying EBIT of $73.0 million in the first half of fiscal year 2025 (HY25). This was 184% higher than HY24, and was driven by a substantial improvement in the operating performance of the […]
March 12, 2025 Industry News InfraBuild´s Kinetic 5000 Revolutionises Steel Processing Steel fabrication in Tasmania has taken a giant leap forward with the arrival of InfraBuild’s Kinetic 5000 plate processing machine at our Launceston Steel Centre. To mark the occasion, InfraBuild hosted a launch event which brought together more than 30 customers, industry leaders and […]
