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Invention and innovation are essential to the Port Kembla Steelworks' strategies for future success. The Company spends many millions of dollars on research each year. Research and development is carried out at major laboratory facilities at Port Kembla.   Research concentrates on three main areas: improving energy efficiency of plant equipment developing new products environmental performance Improvements in plant control using new technologies and computer sensors to detect change have improved energy efficiency and resulted in high quality products. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year to maintain world class facilities at our steelworks. One project recently developed at Port Kembla is a thin strip casting plant in which liquid steel is poured between two rolls to produce coils of sheet steel. This new process removes the need for expensive hot rolling facilities and a reheating step, therefore reducing energy consumption. Characteristics of existing products are also being improved e.g. thinner tin and zinc coating which gives better performance, and improvements in the abrasion resistant finish of COLORBOND® steel.   Outdoor exposure testing of COLORBOND® products

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