Past Projects

The Wollongong University Civil Engineering department has an ongoing research project to investigate railway line foundations. As part of this project the University recently purchased a low cost dynamic actuator for use in a test rig of their own design. The … Continued

The Hot Strip Mill at the BlueScope Steel Pt Kembla Works underwent a recent upgrade to the Finishing Mill drive systems. Each of the 5 Finishing Mill stands had the main drive gearboxes upgraded to 9MW capacity. A heavy gear-oil lubrication … Continued

The One Steel Oil & Gas plant at Kembla Grange produces high quality steel pipe in the range 168 through 508mm for the Oil & Gas industry. Part of the testing process is to pressure test each pipe to an … Continued

Alcoa Australia completed installation and commissioning of a new Aluminium processing line in 2006. The Cleaning and Cut to Length facility allows Aluminium coils to be processed and recoiled, or to be cut to lengths for subsequent sale as sheet … Continued

A long term CMA client completed a new steel processing line in 2006. The Decamber line takes slit steel coils up to 200mm wide x 12.7mm thickness, and feeds the uncoiled strip through a leveller, a 2 high 3 MN … Continued

One Steel have been operating a pipe mill at Kembla Grange for many years, manufacturing pipe for the Oil & Gas industry, as well as structural sections for the construction industry. When CMA was first introduced to the plant in … Continued

The BOC gases plant at Unanderra is a major producer of a variety of process gases. During May 2005 a major plant shutdown was planned and carried out to complete essential maintenance work. Part of the work planned for the shutdown … Continued

Bisalloy Steels manufactures steel plate of high hardness and strength using a quench and temper process. A degree of warping of the steel plate occurs during this process, and during the mid 1990s Bisalloy was seeing a threat to their business … Continued