Nextracker and Orrcon Steel announced an agreement to manufacture and deliver Australian made critical components for Nextracker's smart solar tracker used on distributed generation and utility-scale solar farms. The first project scheduled to receive delivery of Australian made steel components from the facility is ACCIONA Energia's 480MWp Aldoga Solar Farm to be built near Gladstone. Critical steel components will be produced from BlueScope's steel coil at Orrcon Steel's Salisbury Tube mill in Queensland and finished at its Northgate site by Baojia, Nextracker's global manufacturing partner for delivery to engineering procurement contractors (EPCs). The new manufacturing facility was officially opened by Queensland Minister for Energy and Clean Economy Jobs, Mick de Brenni MP; Tania Archibald, Chief Executive BlueScope Australian Steel Products; Tony Schreiber, Chair of the Australian Steel Institute and General Manager of Orrcon Steel; and Peter Wheale, General Manager of Nextracker Australia, Southeast Asia, New Zealand.

The manufacturing facility has been commissioned and 16 new jobs have been created to produce up to 50,000 tonnes of torque tubes, the equivalent of over 2.5GW of utility scale solar farms.