The competition watchdog has cleared BGC Australia's sale of its cementitious division, with the business carved up between Cement Australia and Adbri.
Workers at Cockburn Cement, one of the state's largest concrete manufacturers, have voted in favour of strike action as enterprise negotiations between the company and unions escalate.
Cockburn Cement owner Adbri has unanimously backed a proposal for the Adelaide-based company to be taken over by consortium involving New York Stock Exchange-listed CRH and Victoria's Barro Group.
A trial to reduce odour emissions from Cockburn Cement is being probed over concerns it failed to adequately test how well a new system would work under normal operation conditions.
A WA cement producer has successfully appealed for a reduced fine after being found guilty of releasing emissions with an “offensive” and “horrendous” odour.
ABx Group has locked in a deal that could be worth up to about $9 million for the supply of cement-grade bauxite to South Australian construction materials company Adelaide Brighton Cement's Birkenhead manufacturing operation. The contract will see ABx supply between 90,000 and 120,000 tonnes of bauxite during a five-year term from its DL130 project in northern Tasmania.
Adbri subsidiary Cockburn Cement has awarded SIMPEC a $105 million contract for work on its Kwinana plant expansion, which has been estimated to cost up to $420 million.
The pipeline of big resources projects in WA increasingly features complex processing plants, despite a spate of large cost blowouts on projects currently under way.
Manufacturer Adbri has informed the market of another major cost blowout of its Kwinana cement project which is now expected to cost up to $420 million.
Adbri's Kwinana cement project is looking at cost overruns in the order of up to $90 million-plus, joining a litany of WA projects hamstrung by labour constraints and high input costs.
Shares in Adbri fell sharply today after the ASX company reported a fall in net profit and provided updates on major projects at Kwinana and Kalgoorlie.
WA's largest residential builder is back on the market, three years after BGC postponed the sales process. The proceeds will flow to the children of company founder Len Buckeridge.
Adbri has highlighted the importance of domestic manufacturing as it commenced a major upgrade of its Cockburn Cement operations and evaluates regional investments.
Fortescue Metals Group and Curtin University are part of a consortium to research low-carbon iron pellets, cement and alumina, which received $39 million from the federal government today.
Adbri will continue supplying lime to the Worsley Alumina refinery in WA after securing a five-year contract extension with the plant's majority owner, South32.
Adbri subsidiary Cockburn Cement is expected to cut up to 50 jobs after Alcoa of Australia did not renew its contract to purchase about $70 million of lime each year.
Newly appointed Boral chief executive Zlatko Todorcevski says there are no sacred cows in the company portfolio as he attempts to improve on recent disappointing results.
Ausdrill has announced its chief financial officer Theresa Mlikota will leave company within the next three months to undertake the same role at ASX-listed construction materials and lime producer Adelaide Brighton.
Cement and masonry supplier Adelaide Brighton, which owns Cockburn Cement, is investigating some transactions that may have hidden customer underpayments for supplied products.
