AUSTRALIAN STEEL MILL SERVICES LAUNCH ABF222 TO MARKET

ASMS has recently launched ABF222 to market - a new Densely Graded Subbase (DGS) product, meeting increasing demand for DGS and Densely Graded Base (DGB) materials due to the number and size of civil projects underway in greater Sydney.

ABF222 is an unbound material which behaves similar to a lightly bound material once placed thanks to BFS (Blast Furnace Slag)’s self-cementing characteristics. ABF222 is a blended blast furnace slag product, making use of several underutilised products ASMS produces from processing BlueScope Port Kembla’s blast furnace Slag.

After initial product design and proving trials in the field, ABF222 has seen keen interest with ASMS supplying several projects, most notably to date being 26,000T going into a project at Wetherill Park being constructed by Iron built Infrastructure where it will serve as a subbase for concrete slabs and warehousing.

ASMS are responsible for marketing approximately 1.2 million tonnes of slag-based products to industry. ASMS specifically markets to the following industries:

• Ready Mixed Concrete

• Concrete Building Products

• Asphalt

• Cement Manufacture

• Road Building

• Agriculture

To provide for these markets ASMS directly produces products at the BlueScope Steel furnaces or at one of one of their specialised facilities. ASMS create various materials using two different slag streams:

1. Granulated slag, concrete aggregates, and blended goods including road bases and masonry products are all made from blast furnace slag.

2. ASMS also develop asphalt aggregates, road base materials, specialised fill application materials, and agricultural goods from BOS slag or steel furnace slag.