Reinforcing Steel

Reinforcing products are generally used in applications such as concrete slabs and driveways, mining, agricultural and industrial uses. BlueScope Distribution offers a range of Reinforcing Steel products, some of which include:

Reinforcing Mesh

Reinforcing mesh is a welded wire fabric, prefabricated steel reinforcement material. It has a rectangular or square grid pattern and is produced in flat sheets. It is used to provide tensile strength and crack control to structural concrete elements.

Trench Mesh

Trench mesh is used for residential footing trenches.

Plain Round Bars

Commonly used to manufacture ligatures used to separate top and bottom layers of mesh in concrete slabs, or as dowel bars for joining concrete sections in pavement.

Deformed Bars

Deformed bar is used where extra reinforcing is required to fabric sheets or trench mesh.

Accessories

Such as bar chairs, spacers, safety caps, jointing, lintels and polythene film.

ACRS

ACRS (Australian Certification Authority for Reinforcing Steels) is an industry-based, independent, third-party product certification organisation. ACRS certifies reinforcing steels, pre-stressing and structural steels to Australian Standards.

In the Australian construction industry, local builders, specifiers, designers and customers have come to expect construction materials to comply with all relevant Australian Standards. However, with material now being sourced from various suppliers, both within Australia and from other parts of the world, this is no longer necessarily the case. With so many non-ACRS accredited reinforcing suppliers in the market, it has become even more important for customers to check the product they buy is certified to Australian Standards.

ACRS accreditation guarantees that product conforms to the relevant Australian Standards. BlueScope Distribution sources stock from ACRS accredited suppliers. The benefits of purchasing your reinforcing fabric and bar products from BlueScope Distribution include:

• Assured quality and fitness for purpose of steel
• Removes the need for customers to check every test certificate
• Designers, specifiers, builders and projects owners requirements can be satisfied