# BlueScope signs teaming agreement with Rheinmetall for armour steel

BlueScope signed a teaming agreement with Rheinmetall Defence Australia to supply flat steel feedstock to Bisalloy for manufacturing high-performance armour steel for the Boxer 8x8 Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle under Land 400 Phase 2.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2018-02-09
- Where: Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia
- Value: $4.06B (5.20B AUD)
- Status: announced
- Products: flat steel feedstock, armour steel
- Sectors: [Steel and Metal Products](https://endata.com/sectors/steel-metal-products.md)

## Companies

- [BlueScope](https://endata.com/companies/23313.md)
- [Rheinmetall](https://endata.com/companies/2541.md) (customer)
- [BlueScope](https://endata.com/companies/23313.md) (supplier)
- [Rheinmetall Defence Australia](https://endata.com/companies/26388.md) (customer)
- [Bisalloy](https://endata.com/companies/29975.md) (supplier)

## Sources

- [australiandefence.com.au](https://www.australiandefence.com.au/business/bluescope-flat-steel-for-rheinmetall-armour), 2018-02-09: "Flat steel producer BlueScope and Rheinmetall Defence Australia today signed a teaming agreement that will see the Port Kembla based company working to potentially deliver thousands of tonnes of feedstock for the local production of high performance armour steel for a new national military vehicle i"
- [illawarramercury.com.au](https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/5285688/bisalloy-and-bluescope-unite-to-help-protect-australian-soldiers/), 2018-03-15: "The partnership between BlueScope, Bisalloy Steel and Rheinmetall Defence is quite unique and will see us as only the third accredited supplier of this type of steel in the world."

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