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Cement and masonry supplier Adelaide Brighton, which owns Cockburn Cement, is investigating some transactions that may have hidden customer underpayments for supplied products.

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.

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.

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.

Cockburn Cement owner Adbri has announced it is moving forward with a $199 million investment to consolidate its cement operations into one facility.

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.

About $2.5 billion of projects are likely or under way near Kwinana as the industrial precinct gains a greener tinge.

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 subsidiary Cockburn Cement has received a small extension to its contract with Alcoa of Australia, worth at least $25 million.

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.

Corporate advisers expect a more difficult market after a very buoyant period, but also see a silver lining.

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.

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.

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.

A WA cement producer has successfully appealed for a reduced fine after being found guilty of releasing emissions with an “offensive” and “horrendous” odour.

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.

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.

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.