BAE Systems Australia x BlueScope Distribution - Forging the future of Australia's naval defence

Australia’s biggest steelworks will produce and deliver thousands of tonnes of steel plate into each Hunter class anti-submarine warfare frigate under a new Framework Agreement that locks in local steel supply over the next five years and underscores the decades-long sovereignty of the nation’s naval shipbuilding and steel industries.

Steel produced at BlueScope Group’s Port Kembla Steelworks in New South Wales is a critical part of the construction of the first of three Hunter class frigates at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia.

The Framework Agreement provides long term stability and continuity for Australian steel plate to be supplied into the ship build, which now has more than 41 of the 78 units for Ship 01 currently in production at Osborne.

Seventy-seven per cent of the total amount of steel required to manufacture the first Hunter class frigate will be procured from BlueScope Distribution. Approximately 5,000 tonnes of high-quality Australian made steel will be secured and delivered for each ship—vital to the construction of the world’s most capable anti-submarine warfare frigates.

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