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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.
He returned to New Zealand in 1962 to take up the role of chief engineer at Cable Price Corporation, and three months later he became to company's managing director. [ 4 ] Ingram remained at Cable Price until 1969, when he was appointed general manager and, not long after, managing director of the newly operational New Zealand Steel , remaining ...
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.
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In the mid-1980s Steel & Tube acquired a 25% stake in New Zealand Steel. Also in the deal, they acquired undisclosed stakes in New Zealand Motor Corporation, Domtrac Equipment, and Healing Industries. [1] Between 1988 and 1995 Steel & Tube began a series of acquisitions that would strengthen their share in the New Zealand steel market.
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.
The major New Zealand clients for the mined coal are the power station and the New Zealand Steel mill at Glenbrook. The first coal to be mined was half a ton at Taupiri in 1849, [28] followed by 32 tons in 1850, [29] opposite Kupa Kupa, about 5 km (3.1 mi) south of Huntly, [30] and coal was also discovered at Papahorohoro, near Taupiri. [31]
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.