Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black molten sparks cascading in every

molten sparks cascading in every direction

its metal frame heavy with rust after years of disuse

The basement exit of the ABBCO Bakery sits choked with rubble

coated in dust

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

Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black molten sparks cascading in everyRusting 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.