Interview: O’Malley leaves BlueScope in a good place after challenging decade

摘要

BlueScope Steel chief executive PaulO’Malley believes the days of major new ironore projects are over and the global steelindustry, including China’s, will producemore steel via electric arc furnaces.O’Malley is due to retire at the endof this year, and having engineered amajor turnaround at the Australian flatsteel producer, can now look back over achallenging decade with the sense of a jobwell done. The global financial crisis, highraw materials prices, surging Chinese steelexports which hammered steel spreads, anda rampant Australian dollar, were some ofthe hurdles that had to be overcome alongthe way.