Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black A screening conveyor sits rusting

A screening conveyor sits rusting within Hornsby Quarry

molten sparks cascading in every direction

its metal frame heavy with rust after years of disuse

Heavy steel gates rusted shut at the main entrance to the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

The basement exit of the ABBCO Bakery sits choked with rubble

Slab Caster Plant Colour:Black A screening conveyor sits rustingRusting 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.