BlueScope today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shell Energy Operations Pty Ltd (“Shell”) to work together to explore and develop renewable hydrogen projects at BlueScope’s Port Kembla Steelworks in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

The collaboration encompasses two projects: a pilot renewable hydrogen electrolyser plant at the Steelworks and an Illawarra hydrogen hub concept 

Today our Chief Executive Climate Change, Gretta Stephens, gave a keynote speech at the Impact X Summit 2021: Accelerating pathways to zero emissions. 

The central theme was the importance of collaboration and the critical role the steel sector will play in the transition to net zero.

BlueScope and Rio Tinto have joined forces to explore options for low-emissions steelmaking at Port Kembla Steelworks in New South Wales.  The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to research and design low-emissions processes and technologies for the steel value chain across iron ore processing, iron and steelmaking and related technologies.

Today is the second day of BlueScope's investor briefing following the release of its Climate Action Report and Sustainability Reporting suite.

Today BlueScope is hosting Day 1 of a two day investor briefing following the release of its Climate Action Report and Sustainability Reporting suite.

On 14 September, BlueScope published its FY2021 Sustainability Report, Tax Contribution Report, and Modern Slavery Statement. Together with the Climate Action Report, these Reports demonstrate the progress we are making on our sustainability journey. 

BlueScope today released its first Climate Action Report, which sets out our strategy and plans to address the decarbonisation challenge across our global operations.

We believe that steel has an important role to play in a low-carbon future. The combined expertise and dedication of BlueScope people, working with our stakeholder communities, will continue to be crucial in progressing our strategy and decarbonisation pathway. 

BlueScope is proud to be a signatory to 40:40 Vision, an initiative led by members of Australia’s investor and business community to achieve gender balance in executive leadership across all ASX200 companies by 2030.

We are pleased to announce that our Australian Steel Products business has joined Supply Nation, an Australian leader in supplier diversity.

BlueScope today reported for the first half financial year ending December 2020, a net profit after tax (NPAT) of $330.3 million, up 78 per cent on 1H FY2020, and an underlying NPAT of $332.8 million.