Smorgon Steel was an Australian steel manufacturing company. It was the last remaining part of Smorgon Consolidated Industries, founded in 1958 by Victor Smorgon, member of the

Smorgon family The Smorgon family is a Jewish Australian business family known for their establishment of Smorgon Steel. Family tree * Norman (Naum) Smorgon (17 December 1884 – 1956) m. (1) Tzippa Smorgon nee Mejov (1887 - ??) (div. 1925); (2) m. Vera Nau ...

. In 1997, Smorgon purchased structural materials Welded Mesh from Leighton Holdings. In December 1998, Smorgon Steel took over Australian National Industries. It was floated on the

Australian Securities Exchange Australian Securities Exchange Ltd or ASX, is an Australian public company that operates Australia's primary securities exchange, the Australian Securities Exchange (sometimes referred to outside of Australia as, or confused within Australia a ...

in February 1999. In December 2001, Bradken was sold to

Castle Harlan Australian Mezzanine Partners Castle Harlan is a private equity firm based in New York City. The company focuses on buyouts and growth capital investments in middle-market companies across a range of industries. Founded in 1987, Castle Harlan invests in controlling interest ...

. In 2007 Smorgon Steel merged with

OneSteel Arrium was an Australian mining and materials company, employing nearly 10,000 workers, that went into voluntary administration in 2016 with debts of more than $2 billion. In 2017 it was acquired by British-owned Liberty House Group. His ...

, with its distribution operations sold to

BlueScope BlueScope Steel Limited is an Australian flat product steel producer that was spun-off from BHP Billiton in 2002. History BlueScope was formed when BHP Billiton spun-off its steel assets on 15 July 2002 as BHP Steel. It was renamed BlueS ...

.OneSteel, Smorgon Steel and BlueScope Steel finalise agreement
Smorgon Steel 5 April 2007

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{{Reflist Companies based in Melbourne Companies formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Defunct manufacturing companies of Australia Manufacturing companies established in 1958 Manufacturing companies disestablished in 2007 1958 establishments in Australia 2007 disestablishments in Australia