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New Zealand Steel Limited is the owner of the Glenbrook Steel Mill, a steel mill located 40 kilometres south of Auckland, in Glenbrook, New Zealand. The mill was constructed in 1968 and began producing steel products in 1969.
A salesman turned businessman, Fisher was involved in a number of successful New Zealand enterprises. He served as the first chairman of New Zealand Steel. In 1960, he established the Woolf Fisher Trust to provide funding that maintained the salaries of post-primary schoolteachers and principals while sending them overseas to further their ...
Sir John Henderson Ingram CBE (3 September 1924 – 1 April 2015) was a New Zealand engineer and businessman. He was managing director of New Zealand Steel from 1969 to 1987, and later served as a member of the Waitangi Tribunal.
New Zealand Steel Limited – purchased by BHP; Post Office Bank Limited (Postbank) – sold to ANZ; Radio New Zealand (Commercial Stations) – Sold to Clear Channel to form The Radio Network. Non-commercial stations RNZ National and RNZ Concert remain. Rural Banking and Finance Corporation – purchased by the National Bank of New Zealand)
Aerial view of the Glenbrook Steel Mill complex (2008). Glenbrook Power Station is a 112MW co-generation plant located at Glenbrook, south of Auckland, New Zealand.Fully integrated into the New Zealand Steel plant, and enables New Zealand Steel to optimise its energy costs.
Glenbrook had a population of 2,193 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 159 people (7.8%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 219 people (11.1%) since the 2006 census. There were 741 households, comprising 1,110 males and 1,083 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.02 males per female.
When qualified, he was sent on short term assignment as Garrison Armourer and Small Arms Inspector to the New Zealand field forces. He arrived in Auckland, New Zealand in 1861 on the African, and was based at Fort Britomart in Auckland, New Zealand. [1] He married Mary Ann Golding on 24 December 1861 in Auckland.
Work was completed in February 1883 at a cost of £500, with its first steel produced on 27 February of that year using sand from North Head of Manukau Heads under a sixty-year contract from the New Zealand government. [2] However, the company ceased trading after a series of events led to a gradual reduction in quality of the steel produced.