 Cement used in the works was mostly made at the Cullen Bullen Company's lime and cement works, about from Lithgow There was another mill principally for rolling sheets for galvanising and corrugating sheets up to long and 27 gauge.On 24 April 1901 Sandford organised a gala dinner to announce that he and his son Esk had successfully tapped the first viable quantities of steel produced in Australia at the Eskbank Ironworks.He had been working Eskbank since the 1880s, and although tapping steel was a triumph, he was nearly exhausted by it.