"Illawarra Coke"

A 16mm Ektachrome film made in 1962 by keen amateur film maker Noel Leeder who was then also Manager of the Illawarra Coke Company's works at superbly scenic Coalcliff, just south from Sydney in NSW, Australia.
The film was made to show the then-latest technology being developed by that company in the manufacture of highest quality metallurgical coke from the outstanding Bulli Seam coal mined at the adjacent Coalcliff Colliery.
The film covers the manufacturing process in detail and the use of the top quality coke in three typical applications - to manufacture modern motor car engines by General Motors Holden in Melbourne, to make superb cast iron baths by McIIwraith Industries in Sydney and in the smelting of all the silver/lead ore mined at Broken Hill in NSW by the world's largest lead smelter at the the Broken Hill Associated Smelters at Port Pirie in South Australia, with it's products then going to export markets throughout the world.
The film "Illawarra Coke" was then printed in English and Japanese language versions for screening to both existing and potential users of the high quality Illawarra metallurgical coke throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Shown worldwide, it generated great interest in the then-very-advanced coking technology and further established Illawarra Coke as the highest quality product available for top end use by manufacturers around the world.
Fifty years later, the Illawarra Coke Company continues to operate a now-much- further-modernised coke oven battery at the same Coalcliff site, exporting it's world renowned metallurgical coke to appreciative consumers worldwide. I hope you enjoy my film as much as I enjoyed making it and in developing the then-leading-technology it showcases!. Check out the vastly modernised and superbly operated Illawarra Coke Company's coke oven battery fifty years later on their excellent and very informative website on "www.illawarracoke.com.au". Noel Leeder.

Видео "Illawarra Coke" канала Noel Leeder