BlueScope profits fall but local demand for steel increases

Glen Humphries
Updated August 18 2020 - 7:41am, first published 6:30am
DEMAND: Profits may be down at BlueScope due to COVID-19 but the pandemic also saw an increased domestic demand for steel compared to the same time last year. Picture: Sylvia Liber
DEMAND: Profits may be down at BlueScope due to COVID-19 but the pandemic also saw an increased domestic demand for steel compared to the same time last year. Picture: Sylvia Liber

BlueScope has recorded a profit lower than the 2015 return that led to the cost-cutting at Port Kembla.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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