Completion of Adbri Cement’s annual Birkenhead Shutdown maintenance work

We have now completed our annual Shutdown maintenance work at our Adbri Cement Birkenhead manufacturing facility.

Our kiln and cement mills are operating again after scheduled maintenance to various parts of our facility, including cleaning and re-bricking our kiln (see picture) and installing a new burner, improving production efficiency and our environmental performance.

In restarting the kiln after maintenance work had been completed, there were some temporary instrumentation issues which caused the kiln to come off, creating short noticeable emissions. These issues do sometimes occur when re-starting operations after Shutdowns and they have now been rectified. We kept the community and stakeholders informed through a post on our community website.

Our limestone carrier ship, The Accolade II, is back at K Berth on the Port River after annual scheduled repairs were completed at Outer Harbor. The ship commenced sailing to and from the Klein Point port on the York Peninsula, transporting limestone to Birkenhead again from January 31. Scheduled maintenance also occurred at our Klein Point facility during the Birkenhead Shutdown.

During the Birkenhead Shutdown, up to 500 engineering and trade contractors were on site to undertake maintenance valued at $22.5 million.

Contractors from other parts of SA (and some from interstate) travelled to Birkenhead and spent money in the Port Adelaide community on accommodation, restaurants, groceries, recreation etc.

Adbri Cement’s parent company, Adbri, directly employs more than 470 South Australians – and indirectly more than 2000 South Australians.

We spend more than $300 million directly each year in South Australia and contribute $210 million pa in gross value add (or local spend) to the Port Adelaide Enfield community.

As a local Australian manufacturer with a 140-year history, we are proud of our key roles in building a better Australia and a global net zero future.

Cement and concrete are critical to our built environment for hospitals, schools, social housing and new transport infrastructure. Cement and concrete become even more critical in the transition to a low carbon economy, as they are the foundations of wind turbines, pumped hydro dams, tidal power installations and electricity transmission, distribution and sub-stations.

Adbri Cement has been leading the way in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by progressively replacing fossil fuels with alternative fuels. Our general purpose cement, made at Birkenhead, has Australia’s lowest embodied carbon.

If there are any issues that need to be reported, please contact our community hotline on 8300 0520 or email – BirkenheadCommunity@adbri.com.au.