Steelworks Tour

Come inside & experience the magnitude & excitement of the steel making process that has been the backbone of the Illawarra for decades.

The Steel Tour starts with the Making of Steel video and a safety video and briefing before everyone is fitted with the required PPE (audio headset, hard hat, gloves, positive seal glasses and dust jacket).

As the tour bus snakes around the Port Kembla Steelworks site, you will spot everything from monster machinery, giant buildings, locomotives and huge stockpiles of raw materials. Time to turn up the heat as we climb the stairs to visit the colossal Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) plant and the continuous slab caster to get the best vantage point of steel production – a truly unique and sensory experience.

In the tour’s final stage, we visit the Hot Strip Mill, where steel slabs are reheated and rolled into coils in a noisy, action-packed process.

As a condition of entry all participants must adhere to the following tour clothing/footwear requirements:

Fully enclosed comfortable nonslip footwear (eg sneakers/runners) Calf length socks (no ankle socks or invisible socks) Full length pants with no rips or splits