QMASTOR Limited (ASX: QML) - Australia’s leading supplier of bulk material management information systems and services - announced today that it has secured a major contract with OneSteel for the provision of its award winning Pit to Port.net® system at the Whyalla Steelworks as part of Project Magnet.
QMASTOR will provide OneSteel Whyalla with an End to End supply chain solution. The system will be used by both OneSteel and their mining and logistics contractors. The scope of the contract involves:
- Pit to Customer supply chain management
- Material tracking and stockpile management
- Planning, forecasting and reconciliation
- Transportation (barging; trains; trucks)
- Ore blending and grade control
- Export shipping
- Contract management
- Automated data extraction via extensive interfacing to systems including:
o Datamine (Mine model)
o Labware (Laboratory system)
o Pi (Data Historian)
o Excel Spreadsheets
- Web Reporting
Managing Director Trent Bagnall stated: “QMASTOR is proud to partner with OneSteel to facilitate the successful completion of Project Magnet. Our commodity independent, highly configurable systems provide world class supply chain management solutions on a global level”.
“Licensing, project services and maintenance for the system has been contracted to QMASTOR and we expect more than 50% of the revenue from the contract to fall in this current financial year.”
About OneSteel
OneSteel is the largest manufacturer of steel long products and is the leading metals distribution company in Australia, with revenues of $3 billion Australian dollars. OneSteel has over 200 operational sites in Australia and New Zealand, more than 30,000 customers and employs approximately 7,400 people.
About Project Magnet
OneSteel Whyalla is in the process of implementing Project Magnet: a $325M project which will commercialise OneSteel’s magnetite iron ore resource and upgrade the Whyalla Steelworks. The project expects to extend mine life to at least 2027 and capitalise on ore reserves at a favourable time by exporting hematite and incorporating the usage of magnetite in the production process.
Project Magnet involves extensive development and upgrades in the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) environments for the mines and concentrator processes, pellet plant process and laboratory sampling process.
OneSteel Whyalla will produce approximately 10 million tonnes per annum of magnetite and hematite ores for both export and domestic consumption. Onesteel Whyalla Steelworks manufactures 1.2 million tonnes of raw steel each year and is regarded as the engine room of OneSteel’s business. Built on the advantage of the secure low cost iron ore supplies from the Middleback Ranges, OneSteel Whyalla Steelworks is the major source of both Special Bar Quality (SBQ) & commercial grade billet feed for the business.
About QMASTOR Limited
QMASTOR Limited (ASX: QML) is a market leader in the provision of specialist management information systems and services to the global mining, port, power generation and other bulk commodity industries. QMASTOR’s systems currently manage over 200 million tonnes of bulk commodity movements per annum in iron ore, coal and bauxite.
Since, 1987 QMASTOR has pioneered innovative solutions to empower clients to improve their operations and maximise profit through the efficient use of resources across the supply chain.
For further information contact:
Steve Maxwell – General Manager
Phone: +61 (2) 4908 2222
Email: smaxwell@qmastor.com
Web: www.qmastor.com |