Your steel suppliers Brisbane
BlueScope Distribution Brisbane is your trusted source for end to end steel needs for a range of applications across various industries. We provide steel products, processing, and solutions to businesses in the wider Brisbane area.
Our Brisbane team has extensive experience in large-scale projects for clients in the building, construction, renewables, engineering, defence, transport and infrastructure sectors. We work closely with our clients to identify and satisfy the requirements of large-scale and complex projects, from supplying every steel need to providing supply chain support.
Our range of BlueScope-manufactured steel products are the trusted names in Australian steel. Some of the products we supply include XLERPLATE® steel, TRU-SPEC® steel and REDCOR® steel, as well as sheet and coil products such as COLORBOND® steel, ZINCALUME® steel, TRUECORE® steel and GALVABOND® steel.
Product
Steel suppliers Brisbane
BlueScope Distribution is a Brisbane steel supplier providing BlueScope manufactured brands that are trusted by clients in a wide range of industries. At BlueScope Distribution Brisbane, customers can choose from a wide range of steel plate, steel sheet and coil, and other steel products to suit a wide variety of end-use applications. Our range is paired with a supportive team that is ready to assist in providing added value to your steel needs.
Steel plate suppliers Brisbane
- Steel plate – BlueScope Distribution Brisbane provides BlueScope-manufactured XLERPLATE® steel, TRU-SPEC® steel, and REDCOR® steel. We have a wide range of steel plate products, including mild steel, high tensile steel, weather-resistant steel, quenched and tempered steel, wear plate, coil plate, pattern plate, and treadplate options.
- Coil plate – TRU-SPEC® steel can be used in a range of end-use applications, including standard structural members, automotive components and general fabrications. At BlueScope Distribution Brisbane, our coil plate steel comes in a range of structural grades, widths and lengths.
- Weathering steel plate – We stock a wide range of REDCOR® weathering steel products for applications in non-marine and non-industrial applications. Our REDCOR® weathering steel products have both enhanced weather resistance and a great aesthetic appeal.
- Quenched & tempered steel – The range of quenched and tempered steel plates offered by Bisalloy ® has diverse applications across the defence, transport, mining, and structural sectors. This type of steel is specifically designed to withstand high-impact situations, providing exceptional strength and durability to ensure long-lasting performance.
Steel sheet & coil suppliers Brisbane
- Pre-painted steel – BlueScope Distribution Brisbane offers a comprehensive selection of COLORBOND® prepainted steel products that are often used in the production of roofing, walling, fencing, and rainwater systems. Our range of COLORBOND® steel is available in both sheet and coil forms.
- Metallic coated steel – BlueScope Distribution offers a variety of metallic coated steel products, including the ZINCALUME® steel sheet and coil range, GALVABOND®, and ZINCANNEAL®. These products are available in both sheet and coil forms and are widely used in the manufacturing of roofing, walling, and steel framing components.
- Cold-rolled steel – At BlueScope Distribution Brisbane, our range of cold rolled steel includes four product groups: formable, structural, carbon and hardness. Our range of products includes both sheet and coil form.
- Hot-Rolled steel – Our Brisbane team offers a range of hot rolled steel products that come in sheet and coil form, as well as floor plate or pattern plate form. Hot rolled steel is applicable in the manufacturing of brackets, furniture, automotive components, mower parts, agricultural machinery and walkways.
Steel product suppliers Brisbane
- Pipes, valves & fittings – BlueScope Distribution Brisbane provides a range of steel pipe, valves and fittings and can advise our customers on their requirements for commercial pipe, ERW pipe, pressure pipe, seamless pipe, as well as valves and fittings. We also offer coordination services for international projects involving pipes.
- Reinforcing steel – Our Brisbane-based team can assist in determining your reinforcing steel requirements. The products we provide include mesh and deformed bars or spacers and bar chairs.
- Structural steel – Our structural steel product range is used across a range of industries, including residential and non-residential building projects, civil construction, mining, general manufacturing, and more.
- Merchant bar – BlueScope Distribution Brisbane provides a range of merchant bar products, including flats, rounds, angles, squares and channels, which are crucial to the engineering and fabrication industries. We have a wide range of stock sizes.
- Pipe & tube steel – Our range of CHS, RHS, SHS and ERW steel tube is manufactured to the highest quality and designed for precision, consistency and reliability to meet project requirements.
- Welded beams & columns – Our range of welded steel beams and columns, including universal beams, channels and angles, are often applied in engineering, construction, building, mining infrastructure or transport industries. They are also commonly used in the building and development of office buildings, shopping centres, stadiums, car parks and bridges.
- Building products – BlueScope Distribution Brisbane provides a range of products to businesses across the building segment include roofing, walling and rainwater products made from trusted brands such as COLORBOND® steel, ZINCALUME® steel and TRUECORE® steel.
- Farming products – BlueScope Distribution Brisbane is proud to contribute to the growth of the Australian farming industry by supplying steel products that cater to on-farm necessities and agricultural manufacturing demands.
Processing
Brisbane steel supplier processing capabilities
At BlueScope Distribution Brisbane, our clients can select from an extensive range of steel processing services to deliver the steel products they need in the form they need them. Our range of processing services enables us to deliver custom cut and processed steel solutions, which our customers can seamlessly transform into many end-user products.
Steel sheet and coil processing services Brisbane
- Slitting and recoiling for steel coils – At BlueScope Distribution Brisbane, we can process steel coil products. We take large steel coils from the BlueScope mill and slit and recoil them to the sizes required by our customers.
- Shearing for steel sheets – BlueScope Distribution Brisbane provides valuable shearing services including turret punching and break press forming. Through our shearing process, we efficiently cut steel coils into sheet steel and carefully stack them in palletised packs, ensuring convenient delivery, storage, and utilization on our customers’ machines. Additionally, we maintain a stock of standard sheet sizes for popular products like COLORBOND® steel, aluminium, hot rolled, and cold rolled steel.
Steel plate processing services Brisbane
- Plasma cutting services – Our advanced plasma cutting services provide exceptional precision and efficiency. With options for cutting, drilling, and bevelling, we ensure that parts can be finished in a single setup. Our services offer fast cutting speeds, minimise waste through nesting, utilise CAD/CAM for shape generation, and can accurately cut long shapes and achieve automated multi-axis bevels. Furthermore, we have the capability to transform rectangular steel plates into components of specific shapes and sizes, saving our customers valuable time and labour in the fabrication process.
- Bevel, drilling & etching – We provide a range of bevel, drilling and etching services, including creating an angled edge required for optimum welding, pre-drilling holes into the steel plate, and etching to provide markings that help with welding and other work. We also offer a range of other services such as counter sinking, tapping, milling, punching, hard stamping, and pin marking.
Other steel processing services Brisbane
- Kitting services – Kitting involves grouping together different products and custom processed steel components, which enables us to pack and deliver the products in the form clients require for final fabrication, which in turn provides significant efficiencies for our customers.
Solutions
Your Brisbane steel suppliers
Complex projects often run into problems. At BlueScope Distribution Brisbane, we deliver solutions in the form of value-add collaborations that positively impact our clients’ bottomline, from project management services to just-in-time delivery, B2B integration and more.
- Project management solutions – Our expertise in handling and processing steel coil products, paired with our processing capability enables us to help better manage projects, ensuring that deadlines are met in a timely manner.
- Just-in-time delivery – BlueScope Distribution Brisbane knows how important it is for businesses to have materials delivered where and when they are needed. Just-in-time ensures projects run smoothly and bottlenecks are avoided. Our skilled teams efficiently coordinate product deliveries to meet project milestones without delays.
- Consignment Stock – Access to materials is vital to any large scale project. BlueScope Distribution Brisbane lets customers maintain a significant level of efficiency through our regular stock taking to ensure smooth invoicing and cash flow.
- Forecasting support – Our teams’ forecasting capabilities allow our clients to better understand their purchasing trends and anticipate where and when they will need access to new materials.
- End-to-end supply chain – We offer personalised supply chain coordination to support project milestones. We achieve this by coordinating material from multiple suppliers, managing production schedules, transport and delivery to provide one seamless point of contact.
- B2B integration – Our highly experienced and capable IT and sales teams determine our clients’ business-to-business system integration requirements and identify ways we can partner to manage system automated stock management solutions. Automated placement of orders, product code integration, and invoicing helps create a more seamless project process.
- Steel efficiency reviews® – We add value by identifying smarter and more cost-efficient ways to do business. Our steel efficiency reviews help our customers identify mutually beneficial projects we can work on together to create better value.
Industries we service
As your local steel supplier, processor and solutions provider, BlueScope Distribution Brisbane provides quality steel to customers across a range of industries. In addition to our quality steel products and in-house processing capabilities, we also provide a range of value-add services and solutions to our customers.
Below are some examples of the industries that we often work with. However, we can provide steel products to meet the requirements of customers across various other industries that may not be mentioned below. If you operate in an industry that is not listed below, please do not hesitate to get in touch with our team to find out more about our product range.
Defence
BlueScope Distribution Brisbane possesses extensive expertise in delivering comprehensive steel solutions to the defence industry. Our offerings include TRU-SPEC® steel, XLERPLATE® steel, and BISALLOY® quenched and tempered steel. Additionally, our Brisbane Branch is equipped with steel processing capabilities, allowing us to accurately cut steel to the specific sizes requested by our valued customers.
Farming & agriculture
On-farm steel products are designed with the farmer in mind. BlueScope Distribution Brisbane provide a wide range of steel to serve both on-farm and agricultural manufacturing needs. Our wide range comprises stock handling equipment to downgrade for DIY yard applications.
Infrastructure
Our BlueScope Distribution Brisbane teams are experienced when it comes to supplying steel and aluminium to infrastructure projects around Australia. We are recognised for their coordination of large steel and aluminium projects, as well as processing services to match. We supply high-quality steel products to businesses involved in infrastructure projects, including road, rail, and bridges, among others. Our customers primarily incorporate our steel components into their manufacturing processes to meet their overall infrastructure project needs.
In addition, we partner with companies utilising our steel products for manufacturing purposes in infrastructure, commercial, and heavy construction applications. Our teams work closely with customers to coordinate their steel projects, leveraging our extensive network of branches. Moreover, we offer additional processing services and value-added solutions to cater to their specific requirements.
Manufacturing
BlueScope Distribution Brisbane supplies high-quality steel products backed by processing services and value-add solutions to customers in the manufacturing sector. We often work with customers in the manufacturing sector and understand their needs and concerns so we know how crucial it is to have accessibility, ease and availability of materials for the smooth progression of projects.
Mining, oil & gas
With our extensive expertise, we have successfully supplied steel products to numerous mining projects across Australia. At BlueScope Distribution Brisbane, we recognise that customers in the Mining, Oil, and Gas industries frequently face tight timeframes and budget constraints. To ease this pressure, we prioritise timely and accurate delivery of steel to meet their specific requirements.
At BlueScope Distribution Brisbane, we offer a comprehensive range of steel and aluminium products and can collaborate with our mill to explore possibilities for producing steel grades that fall outside the standard range, catering to the unique needs of our customers in the mining segment.
Non-residential building
BlueScope Distribution Brisbane understands that our customers servicing the non-residential building sector require timely and convenient access to a wide range of steel materials. Therefore ,we ensure we coordinate services such as project coordination and just-in-time so that our quality steel products can reach you as you require. This includes quality steel sheet and coil products such as ZINCALUME® steel and COLORBOND® steel. We also offer a range of structural steel products with a range of processing services as well as value-add solutions in conjunction with their quality steel products.
Residential building
We recognise our customers operating in the residential building segment require accessibility to a wide range of quality steel materials with on-time delivery. We ensure, customers in this segment are supplied with BlueScope branded products including COLORBOND® steel, ZINCALUME® steel and TRUECORE® steel at accessible times through our Just-In-Time solution. Our quality steel products designed for the residential building sector are typically used by our customers in the manufacturing of end-use applications that include walling, roofing and rainwater products.
Renewable energy
We have worked closely with customers to provide our wide choice of steel products for both end-use applications as well as manufacturing processes across the renewable energy industry. This includes such as wind towers and solar farm production. At BlueScope Distribution Brisbane, we also ensure customers’ projects are delivered on-time through end-to-end project management solutions to avoid bottlenecks and ensure smooth processes.
Transport & automotive
We provide an extensive selection of high-quality steel products and processing services to customers within the transport and automotive sector. Our steel products are commonly applied by customers in this industry for manufacturing and fabricating final products, such as automotive components, heavy earthmoving equipment, trailers, and recreational vehicles.
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