Boral Walks to Cure Diabetes

Y o ur Boral ma g a z i n e SEP-NOV 2006
Boral news
in the
Boral Walks to
Cure Diabetes
Thousands of Boral employees
and their families around Australia
and the USA showed their support
for JDRF by participating in this
year’s Walk to Cure Diabetes.
of Wacol
3Opening
Masonry Plant
Maldon
4New
Bagging Plant
opened
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Contents
2 My Say
3 Opening of Wacol masonry plant
My say
4 Maldon bags a new facility
Tamworth to get state-of-the-art
concrete batch plant
5Exhibition preview forms part of
Boral’s 60th anniversary celebration
Boral’s Annual General Meeting
and Profit Outlook
6 2006 Boral Awards for Excellence
On 27 October Boral held its Annual
General Meeting, an event which gives all
shareholders an opportunity to meet and
ask questions of the Chairman and the
Board of Directors.
10Boral in the Community – special
60th birthday supplement
11 Home Aid
12 Boral Living Green
13Boral Communities –
World Vision Australia
14 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
15Boral Family Re-discovery Programs
16 Bangarra Dance Theatre
17 Taronga & Western Plains Zoo
18 Bruno’s 40 years with plasterboard
Industry award recognises
Tina Watkins’ achievements
19 Boral staff make model models
Boral’s employees in Thailand
celebrate our 60th anniversary
20Trucks in transport ‘crisis’
in Melbourne
New trucks friendly to the
environment
21World sustainability expert
visits Australia and Blue Circle
Southern Cement
22Boral Select at Castle Hill sets a
new standard
Tune in to TV for tiles
23 Putting a human face on our marketing
Winning angles in our
design competition
24 ‘Walk’ is raising big money
25 Marathon swim breaks world record
Sunstate wins award for
mature employees
26 Boral Birthday Box History Quiz
27Childrens’ Competition –
Spot the Difference
28 Supporting the pedalling penguin
New title tells all
over: Boral employees’ children joined in the fun at the
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Walk to Cure Diabetes in Sydney.
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Just prior to the meeting we had issued a
profit downgrade statement in the face of
increasingly significant macro-economic
headwinds. We advised the market that we
expect Boral’s full year earnings for this
financial year ending 30 June 2007 to be
around 15% down on the $362 million profit
reported in FY2006. This was a change to
our guidance given in August when we
said we expect “comparable” after tax profits
year-on-year.
The change to our forecast has largely been
driven by a substantial downturn in USA
housing commencement in the September
quarter and a sustained downturn in New
South Wales. Together NSW and the USA
account for about 60% of our earnings;
approximately 30% from NSW and 30% from
the USA.
In NSW, our sales volumes in bricks,
roofing and masonry were down 20-25%
in the September quarter. In the USA, we
were expecting a slowdown in the housing
market, but we have been surprised by how
sudden and sharp the slowdown has been
in the September quarter 2006. For example,
in Boral’s brick states, September quarter
dwelling starts fell by 20% and in Boral’s roof
tile states dwelling starts fell by some 38%
compared to the September quarter last year.
This is substantially below our expectations.
It is as important as ever for us to persist with
price increases and cost reduction initiatives
and to deliver on our “growth promises”.
Boral’s Safety Performance
Our safety results for the first three months of
2006/07 show our lost time injury frequency
rate per million hours worked is 2.3 compared
with 3.2 reported for the full year last year;
this is a good result. Similarly percent hours
lost for the September quarter is 0.09%
compared with 0.11% reported last year.
Tragically, however, I regret to report that two
of our employees in Asia and a contractor in
the USA have died as a result of workplace
injuries in recent months. In Indonesia,
an employee driver died from injuries he
received following a truck accident at Pemjaya
Quarry in West Java; in Thailand, one of our
plant operators in our concrete and quarry
business was fatally injured after receiving
a serious electrical shock; and in the USA,
a sub-contractor who was carrying out
maintenance work on the roof of our Smyrna
Brick plant died from injuries sustained when
he fell through a skylight. Whilst I know that
we are all affected by these fatalities and they
serve as a tragic reminder of the fundamental
need to ensure that all of our workplaces are
safe, my thoughts and condolences are with
those of you who have been closely affected by
these horrific accidents
The Walk to Cure Diabetes
The annual Walk to Cure Diabetes was held
around Australia on 15 October and in the
USA the Walks kicked off in September in
Denver, Augusta, Nashville, Ontario and
Dallas and have continued through October
and November in Phenix City, San Antonio,
Atlanta, and Birmingham. This year Boral
is a Global Walk Leader and I am delighted
to report that more than 2,500 employees
and family members attended the various
state walks in Australia and the USA. Boral’s
fundraising efforts continue to impress and
look like once again breaking our record
fundraising amount set last year. Whilst
the funds raised by Boral for the 2006 Walk
campaign are still being tallied we have
already exceeded A$130,000 in Australia and
some US$70,000 in the USA. That’s a global
total contribution from Boral in excess of
A$220,000. My sincere congratulations to all
involved in this outstanding effort.
Outward Bound Family
Re-Discovery Challenge
Boral continues to have a successful
partnership with Outward Bound Australia
and is positively changing the lives of many
Boral families who have participated in the
Family Re-Discovery program. Applications
are being taken for a further 16 family
scholarships which will be conducted in 2007
(starting with the NSW/ACT course on 13
– 21 January 2007 and the Victorian program
on 20 – 28 January 2007). If you have a high
school aged son or daughter (ideally between
14 and 16 years of age), and would like to
apply for a scholarship please refer to Boral
OnSite or contact Boral Learning Services at
[email protected] or 02 9220 6500
Finally, congratulations to the latest round of
winners of the Boral 60th Birthday Box (as
listed on pages 26 and 27). It’s been nice to
see such widespread involvement and interest
in our birthday activities.
As always, please feel free to drop me a
line if you have any queries or feedback at
[email protected].
Kind regards,
Rod Pearse
Opening of Wacol
Masonry Plant in Qld
A new $12 million plant to produce Boral’s Wetcast paving
products and the new Abode product line has been opened
at Wacol, south-west of Brisbane.
Officially opened on 18 August, the plant
was built to meet steadily rising demand
for landscaping products, particularly by
Australian homeowners who have been
turning in recent years to large format pavers
in contemporary garden designs.
Boral had outgrown its original plant
at Prospect in western Sydney and so
development of the new facility began
in December 2004. Completed on time
and under budget, is the largest capital
investment by Boral’s Masonry business
since 1996.
Keith Mitchelhill, Executive General
Manager – Clay & Concrete Products, said
that the forecast production capacity
for Wacol was three times that of the
Prospect site.
“A recent Housing Industry Association
survey showed that landscaping and outdoor
building projects are being undertaken by 42
per cent of respondents,” he said. “This was
the largest survey of consumer sentiment
towards new home and renovation activities.
The results reinforce the need for Boral to
invest in larger facilities to ensure growing
demand for its popular landscaping products
can be met.”
The facility saw Boral’s inhouse design
and engineering team collaborate with a
leading global manufacturer of industrial
robots, KUKA Robotics Corporation. The
outcome was the most automated Wetcast
manufacturing facility in the world.
Apart from Boral’s standard Aspenstone,
Stoneworks and Bradstone ranges, the new
plant can also produce all of the company’s
Wetcast paving ranges, including the new
Abode product line.
Boral was amongst the first manufacturers to
introduce Wetcast paving to Australia and it
now comprises more than one third of Boral
Masonry’s total business.
In developing the new facility, Boral
capitalised on its existing relationship with
the UK manufacturer of Bradstone, Aggregate
Industries, to adopt and even improve the
design of the UK manufacturer’s production
plant. (Aggregate Industries is a leader in the
supply and manufacture of precast concrete
products for the garden and housing markets.)
CEO and Managing Director Rod Pearse said
that the new plant’s automation would:
• create greater efficiency and accuracy;
• improved quality control;
• deliver more consistent product results; and
• reduce manual handling operations,
thereby lessening the risk of injuries.
“It also continues Boral’s commitment
to environmentally sound practices.
One hundred per cent of waste water is
recycled and reused, and the lighting is
Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) driven,
which constantly monitors natural light and
supplies only the amount of power necessary
according to daylight conditions,” he said.
Maldon bags a
new facility
Blue Circle Southern Cement has opened a new $28 million
bagging and drymix facility at Maldon, NSW. This is said to be
the most modern bagging facility in the Southern Hemisphere.
Its development and construction follows
the decision to wind down and close Blue
Circle’s bagging plant at Seven Hills in
Sydney. This closure in May was partially
due to changes in occupational, health
and safety regulations which is seeing the
industry move from 40-kilogram bags in
favour of 20-kilogram bags.
The major investment at Maldon is aimed
at both ensuring and increasing Blue
Circle’s share of the market. With the
technology now in place, Maldon now has
the opportunity to expand into specialised
high-profit markets, such as grout.
The state-of-the-art technology increases
the plant’s output capacity by over 100%.
Included are a 12-spout rotary cement bag
packer and a Depaq robot, which prepares
72 bags a minute for filling.
“At capacity we can fill 7000 twentykilogram bags per hour,” said Peter Turner,
Maldon Bagging & Cement Despatch
Manager. “However the move to Maldon
offers significant social and environmental
benefits, including reducing the number of
truck movements to and from the Sydney
metropolitan area.”
The Maldon plant has a total workforce of
115 people, with the new bagging and
drymix facility requiring seven additional
staff members.
Importantly, the project was ‘delivered’
on time, on budget and with no Lost
Time Injuries.
Around 60 people attended the opening
ceremony on 17 October, which included
speeches by Boral’s CEO and Managing
Director, Rod Pearse, Blue Circle National
General Manager Mike Beardsell, the Mayor
of Wollondilly Shire, Phil Costa, and Blue
Circle NSW General Manager Ross Harper.
The media showed keen interest in the
occasion, with good coverage from local TV
and radio stations.
Mr Costa said that his shire was proud to be
home to such an advanced plant and stated
that the council had received no complaints
when Boral applied to undertake the work.
The guests watched a short video about
the facility, then were taken on a tour to
see the new technology in action and the
enormously expanded stock and despatch
shed, with its fully covered ‘through-road’ for
trucks to drive in, load and depart.
Tamworth to get state-of-the-art
Concrete Batch Plant
Boral’s Australian Construction Materials
division will construct a new state-ofthe-art concrete batch plant in Tamworth,
capable of meeting the area’s premixed
concrete needs for at least 20 years.
Tamworth Regional Council has approved
the development and work on the project
will start very shortly.
Development Manager Wes Martini
said that Boral had made a substantial
commitment to the Tamworth market.
“We have confidence in the strong
economic forecast for the region and will
be well positioned to support its future
growth,” he said.
The investment decision was driven by
the need to keep up concrete supplies
to this growing market, also having to
relocate the existing plant to a more
environmentally suitable location. The
development will meet all current EPA
noise emission criteria.
Boral’s North West Area Manager,
Tony Harris believes the new plant will
have several positive impacts for the
community. “The new location will take
our core truck movements out of the
residential areas and much of the CBD. It
also reflects the direction of Tamworth’s
future growth,” he said.
The new site has also been designed to
maximise the harvesting of rainwater.
It will be recycled into the production
process and, in turn, reduce to a
minimum the amount of water escaping
into the stormwater drains.
Exhibition preview forms part of
Boral’s 60th anniversary celebration
Boral’s Chairman,
Dr Ken Moss.
Penelope Seidler, Rod Pearse,
Sandra Byron and Eric Sierins.
“The Building As Muse” exhibition preview.
Dr Ken Moss, Peter Cottrell (Chairman of Boral 1994-2000), Rod Pearse, Sir Eric Neal (Managing
Director of Boral 1973-1987), Tony Berg (Managing Director of Boral 1994-1999).
Past CEOs and Chairmen
of Boral came together
with the current Directors
and Management team to
celebrate the company’s 60th
anniversary recently at a dinner
in Boral’s Head Office hosted
by current CEO and Boral’s fifth
Managing Director, Rod Pearse.
The backdrop for the dinner was a preview
showing of a groundbreaking exhibition
Boral is sponsoring titled ‘The Building as
Muse: The creative Collaboration of Max
Dupain and Harry Seidler’.
The exhibition explores the ‘creative
relationship’ which endured for over forty years,
between internationally acclaimed architect
Harry Seidler and Australia’s best-known
photographer, Max Dupain. The full exhibition
will feature photographic prints, architectural
models and assorted memorabilia from eight
Seidler-designed projects.
It will tour to a number of Australian and
overseas venues, including the Australian
Embassy in Paris, which was both designed
by Seidler and photographed by Dupain. The
Embassy celebrates its 30th anniversary
in 2008.
The Boral preview focused on four buildings
– the Rose Seidler House, Australia Square,
the MLC Centre and Grosvenor Place. All
of these buildings contain Boral products
and they have all been winners of the Royal
Australian Institute of Architects prestigious
Sir John Sulman Medal.
Special guests of honour at the dinner were
Mrs Penelope Seidler, Eric Sierins from Max
Dupain & Associates and the curator of the
exhibition, Sandra Byron.
Speaking at the dinner, Rod Pearse said,
“It has been a 60-year journey to create
the Company as we know it today, Australia’s
largest construction and building materials
supplier, the USA’s largest brick and
roof tile maker and, through a 50%-owned
joint venture, Asia’s largest plasterboard
supplier.
“Of course, as part of that journey, a very
successful energy company has also been
created, Origin Energy. Today the two entities
have a combined market cap of over $10 billion
compared with $2 billion just prior to the
demerger, seven years ago in February 2000.
“The demerger was clearly a successful
strategy. It allowed the true value of the
energy business to be unlocked, and
provided the building and construction
materials operations, the new Boral, with the
opportunity to focus on its core activities.
Today, new Boral operates across 682
operating sites globally, we have 15,800
direct employees and some 10,000 JV and
contract employees, and last year we reported
$362 million after tax profits.
“We have delivered a total shareholder return
since demerger of 27% per annum, placing
Boral in the top quartile of ASX100 companies
over that six and a half year period,” he said.
2006 Boral Awards for Excellence
Once again this year, the annual Boral Awards for Excellence has attracted an outstanding list
of entries from our Group’s companies in Australia, Asia and the United States.
The judges said that they were very impressed by the extremely high standard of the entries this
year, making selection of the winners a particularly difficult task.
The Awards give Boral an opportunity to recognise exceptional achievements by people throughout
the organisation. Additionally, the Managing Director’s Award gives recognition to a team that has
achieved excellent overall performance.
Bob Kepford, Rod Pearse, Paul Zimmerman.
Competitive Advantage
Awarded to a site or business unit for pursuing strategies
clearly focused on those areas where Boral has the ability to
build and sustain an advantage over competitors.
Winner:
Ascending to the ‘Next Level’ of Bottom
Line Performance
USA – Boral Bricks Inc
The Boral Bricks’ initiative, Project Next Level, was developed
as a ‘grassroots’, structured, and collaborative approach
to focus on operational improvement. After preliminary
diagnostics to ascertain improvement opportunities, further
analysis was conducted on the specific opportunity areas.
By October 2004, Boral Bricks had 333 approved ideas that
promised yearly bottom line savings or revenues of more than
US$38m. The business set itself a 24 month target to deliver
these benefits.
Finalists:
Melbourne Airport Runway Project
Australian Construction Materials – Metro Concrete Vic
Path to the Future
Clay & Concrete Products – Masonry SA
Ian Baldwin, Rod Pearse, Paul West.
Environment &
Community Relations
This Award is for a site or business unit with excellent
environmental management or community relations.
Winner:
Changing Perceptions – A Pathway to
Sustainable Development
Australian Construction Materials Qld
Changing Perceptions is a comprehensive approach to
‘change management’ targeted at all Boral Construction
Materials business units in Queensland. The overriding focus
of the Queensland business is to ensure that the existing
rights of its operations are protected and the pathway toward
sustainable development is clear.
Finalists:
Community Engagement ‘From Conflict to Cooperation’
Cement – Berrima Works
Every Drop Counts
Australian Construction Materials – Emu Plains Quarry
‘Rubbish to Revenue’ – Boral Waste Solutions
Biogas to Energy Business
Australian Construction Materials – Recycling
Expansion & Growth
The purpose of this Award is to recognise successful initiatives
undertaken to grow Boral’s businesses and to facilitate the
company’s growth into the future.
Winner:
Establishing US Construction Materials: Strategic
Planning for Growth
USA – US Construction Materials
With Boral’s presence in the US in bricks, flyash and roof tiles,
opportunities to build a construction materials presence looked
attractive, however, it would take significant planning and a clear
strategy to successfully develop this new business.
Finalists:
First Boral Bricks Greenfield Plant in US Delivers Results
USA – Boral Bricks Inc
Back row: Ken Barton, Rod Pearse, David Plummer, Bill Timmons,
Bryan Tisher. Front row: Rick Parkes, Emery Severin.
Investment in Growth Exceeds Expectations
USA – Boral Bricks Inc
Randall Rees, Harry Kalatzis, Rod Pearse,
Jason Matthes, Michelle Camilleri.
Rick Parkes, Rod Pearse, Adam Tointon, Mark Jones.
Innovation
People Practices
Awarded to a site or business unit for successfully
encouraging and implementing innovation to further
improve Boral’s processes, products or services.
Awarded to a team or business for the most significant
contribution in ensuring that we have the best people in
our businesses.
Winner:
Winner:
An Integrated Approach to Innovation – Nuvo®
A Concrete Fleet at the Crossroads
Clay & Concrete Products – Bricks
Australian Construction Materials – Concrete Metro NSW
Nuvo is an innovative product solution by Boral Bricks
combining natural clay bricks and matching mortar. It was
developed in response to current consumer preferences
towards lightweight cladding and render finishes, which
were perceived to be more contemporary in appearance and
efficient in construction, than traditional clay brick. The
success of Nuvo is attributed to a disciplined approach to
product development. The process included a comprehensive
market research and product review program, which actively
involved customers, designers and Boral staff members.
Boral Concrete Metro NSW operates a fleet of some 182
concrete agitators. This fleet has traditionally been composed
of lorry owner drivers contracted to cart exclusively for Boral.
In January 2005 the business restructured its fleet to shift
from a 70% lorry owner driver operation to a 75% company
owned fleet.
Finalists:
Supercuplok Support System Cement
– Formwork & Scaffolding
Enviropave™ – An Innovative Pavement Material
Delivering Expansion & Growth
Australian Construction Materials – Metro Quarries
& Recycling NSW
With such a significant change from contractor to employees
the opportunity existed to focus on improved employee
relations and create a positive cultural change to increase
employee engagement.
Finalists:
Blue Circle Southern Cement Minerals: Driving Change
Through ‘Visible & Felt’ Leadership
Cement – Minerals
Get Ready for 2010 – Training for the Future
Clay & Concrete Products – Midland Brick
A Performing Partnership
Australian Construction Materials – Quarries Metro Vic
Tony Mazzarolo, Rod Pearse, Louie Mazzarolo, Henry Wong.
Performance
Enhancement
This category recognises a business or team that has set
challenging business improvement or turnaround objectives
and has demonstrated success.
Winner:
Building for a Sustainable Future
De Martin & Gasparini
De Martin & Gasparini (DMG) operates in markets which
are typically highly cyclical with low margins on high risk
projects. The competitive environment is full of small and
medium competitors which are privately owned and do not
always operate with the same values as Boral in areas such as
statutory and safety compliance. As a result, DMG has in the
past found it impossible to deliver satisfactory returns on an
ongoing basis while also delivering value to Boral by achieving
concrete pull through volume.
In 2002, the DMG management team decided that it wanted to
be viewed as a viable stand-alone business capable of achieving
sustainable results as well as maintaining an integrated
approach with Boral Concrete. It aimed to achieve this in a safe,
disciplined, committed, innovative and transparent way. To do
this DMG fundamentally changed the business philosophy and
embarked on a different business model focusing on safety,
project performance management, people and customers. This
has continued to improve all areas of the operations over the past
few years as demonstrated by the achievement of four years of
consecutive growth in profits (a result which has not before been
seen in DMG) and only one LTI in two years compared to a track
record of 7 or 8 a year in 2003 and 2004.
Finalists:
Aggressive Expansion Project Timeline Succeeds at Brighton
USA – US Construction Materials
Breakthrough at Berrima – The Variability Reduction Initiative
Cement – Berrima Works
Clean, Lean Discharge Machine
– Step Change in Ship Unloading at Sunstate Cement –
Sunstate Cement
Louie Mazzarolo, Rod Pearse, Tom Corda.
Safety
Awarded to the business unit that demonstrates overall
safety excellence, an exceptional improvement in safety
performance or an outstanding improvement in workers’
compensation management or performance.
Winner:
Cementing Safety into our Culture
De Martin & Gasparini
De Martin & Gasparini (DMG) has achieved an exceptional
safety record for the past two years following an intense
focus on creating an industry leading site safety
management plan which is now being flowed on to our
subcontractors. DMG’s safety approach is now further
bolstering its preferred supplier status with many builders.
Site staff are involved in heavy manual work, concreting on
sites supported by our concrete pumping teams. The teams
are typically composed of long term employees often aged in
their 50s and 60s.
During the project period RIFR has fallen from 140
to 58; claim costs are falling with an ageing workforce
and premium costs have fallen to 11.25% (with an
anticipated further decrease to 8.63% in 2007/08).
Unfortunately at the time of writing, DMG has reported
one day lost following surgery for a hernia. The first lost
day due to injury in over two years. This lost day compares
with a peak LTIFR of around 33 in 2003/04 and a total of
8 LTIs in the same year.
Finalists:
Changing Safety Awareness:
A Key that has Opened Many Doors
USA – Boral Material Technologies Inc
Boral Plasterboard: Building Sustainable Safety Improvement
Plasterboard
(L to R): Tim Margach, Rod Pearse and Greg Thomas.
Back row (L to R): Brett Rice, Geoff Bodle, Phil Renwick,
Ross Batstone, Rod Pearse, Andrew Burnard, Roger Johnston,
Stephen Moore.
Front row (L to R): Mike Castles, Sidharta Oetama,
Alan Evans, Greg Thomas, Ric Ogden.
Sales, Marketing
& Customer Relations
Managing
Director’s Award
Boral’s Strategic Intent is to be a value(s) and market driven,
focused building and construction materials supplier,
operating in Australia and increasingly offshore.
This Award provides an opportunity for the Managing
Director to recognise a Boral business or team that has
demonstrated outstanding performance or made an
exceptional contribution to Boral’s financial results.
Winner:
Sales Effectiveness – ‘The key to unlocking the
smaller end of the market’
Plasterboard Vic
In 2001/02, Boral Plasterboard undertook a review of
its Sales & Marketing function with the view to look at
customer sustainability in the face of a fourth entrant into
the Australian plasterboard market. The objective was to
provide some new initiatives that could deliver sustainable
bottom line performance improvement and to mitigate any
margin erosion brought on by the expected downward
pressure on prices.
The review highlighted that more than 90% of total revenue
was generated by the top 20% of the customer base. The need
arose to diversify the customer mix to reduce the threat of
potential losses.
Four key initiatives were developed which were targeted at
the smaller end of the market. These were: 1) utilisation of the
Prospector customer relationship database; 2) introduction
of DirectLINK – an outbound telesales service; 3) adoption of
the sales and service training package called ‘We are all sales
people’; and 4) improved retail development.
Finalist:
Track Surfacing – Commonwealth Games 2006
Australian Construction Materials – Asphalt Vic
An Integrated Approach to Innovation – Nuvo®
Clay & Concrete Products – Bricks
Winner:
Plasterboard Australia, for an “excellent all
round performance”
Over recent years, Boral Plasterboard has performed very
well, broadly offsetting the impact of price reductions due
to a threat of imports, a new market entrant and housing
related volume pressures. Sustained PEP and step change
operational improvement programs together with revenue
enhancements from new product development and a segment
approach to sales have driven the strong performance.
“Boral’s Australian Plasterboard team has also delivered very
strong non-financial performance. Plasterboard’s sustained
OH&S lift has been underpinned by a strategic framework
and behavioural safety programs. Plasterboard has delivered
a lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) of 1.7 and the lowest
% hours lost result for 2005/06 (0.05%). The lowest out of
Boral’s divisions. Environmentally, Plasterboard is heavily
focused on minimising energy consumption and water use
and optimising waste management.
The team is also implementing the right capacity expansion
steps. It is early days, but the Queensland expansion project
– $106m net investment to build a new 40m2 plasterboard
plant adjacent to the river in the suburb of Pinkenba – is
progressing extremely well. Boral is the leading plasterboard
supplier in Queensland and this investment will help it
to sustain that position whilst also supporting growth
elsewhere. Aggressive development of new applications for
plasterboard and servicing customers in a tailored way is
delivering real outcomes.
Boral in the Community
Boral Partnership Framework
Selecting Our
Community Partners
It is important for Boral’s businesses to
work closely with the communities in
which we operate. We place value on having
harmonious relations with our neighbours,
as well as supporting the economic and
social prosperity of the places where we
do business.
Boral invests in the community through
selective and well considered sponsorship
and partnership programs. Our sponsorship
contributions include financial support,
materials in kind support and volunteering,
as well as using our networks to raise
awareness about key community issues.
Boral’s current portfolio of community
partnerships aims to deliver benefits to local
communities and the 15,800 employees
who work across some 823 sites globally in
Australia, the USA and Asia.
To help select the community partnerships
most relevant to Boral, Boral has a
Partnership Framework. This is in place
to ensure that partnerships undertaken
appropriately support our sustainability
goals and result in meaningful contributions
to the communities in which we operate. The
partnership framework incorporates three
10
core elements, our People, our Products and
our Places.
Each year, Boral receives many proposals
for partnerships and requests for donations.
Each proposal is assessed and must
demonstrate support for at least two of the
three Boral Partnering Framework elements
shown above.
In addition the proposed partnership must
rate well against further evaluation criteria.
These criteria require the potential partner
organisation to:
• possess values and qualities similar
to Boral’s;
• have a national, substantial regional
presence and/or global connections;
• demonstrate the potential for a partnership
that will make a genuine difference to
communities, our staff, customers and
stakeholders.
You can view Boral’s ten point partnership
evaluation criteria on Boral OnSite’s
Home Page or on Boral’s website at
www.boral.com.au
For more information on partnership
inquiries contact Boral Corporate Affairs
at [email protected] or
(02) 9226 6300.
2005/6 Community Support
Programs and Partnerships
We invest in communities through both,
national partnerships and local regional
sponsorships of community programs
across Australia the USA and Asia. These
range from Midland Brick’s partnership
with the Hills Community Group, to
provide work opportunities for 18-30 yearolds experiencing some disadvantage in
obtaining employment to activities such as
maintaining a koala fodder plantation with
Koala Action Pine Rivers Inc. (KAPRI) and
Australia Zoo at Boral’s Petrie Quarry in
Queensland. We also focus on our people,
for example, in the USA we have a college
scholarship program for which children of
employees can apply.
Boral’s current major partners are
Conservation Volunteers Australia through
the Boral Living Green initiative, Taronga
and Western Plains Zoos, Bangarra Dance
Theatre, Outward Bound Australia, Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF),World
Vision Australia and our newest partnership
with HomeAid in the USA.
Home Aid
Second mile home serves women and children
in transition.
OC Mary’s Shelter serves pregnant minors
in transition.
Boral is proud to announce
its newest community
support program in the
USA – HomeAid.
HomeAid is a national non-profit organisation
that builds and renovates multi-unit homes
for America’s temporarily homeless. Founded
in 1989 by the Orange County chapter of the
Building Industry Association of Southern
California (BIA/SC), an affiliate of the National
Association of Home Builders (NAHB),
HomeAid has been a pioneer in breaking the
cycle of today’s “temporary” homeless situation
in America.
“Temporary homelessness” is defined as those
homeless people who need a second chance
to get back on their feet, attain self-sufficiency
and move quickly toward acquiring permanent
housing. They choose not to be homeless
and it can happen to ordinary people due
to a multitude of circumstances. Temporary
homelessness is ongoing and it is growing.
In America, “temporary homelessness” can
take on many forms, such as:
According to the National Alliance to End
Homelessness (NAEH) in the United States,
between 700,000 and 800,000 people are
homeless on any given night in the US,
with between 2.5 and 3.5 million people
experiencing homelessness during the course
of a year.
With an impressive network of partners from
the building, manufacturing and financial
industries, expertise and resources donated to
HomeAid has helped address this major social
problem. For nearly 18 years, HomeAid has:
• Opened more than 125 completed
housing facilities;
• Planned more than 58 facilities
in development;
• Provided nearly 3,000 beds to help today’s
homeless in America;
• Started 18 chapters in 12 states, three
regional and one national office;
• Realised over US$175m total in retail value
of all housing built, in development and
HomeAid’s housing care program;
• A mother who is on the streets because she
chose to leave an abusive relationship;
• Raised over US$50m total of in-kind
donations in materials and labour costs to
housing built, in development and HomeAid’s
housing care program; and
• A family who has lost their home due to an
unexpected job loss or natural disaster;
• Helped 60,000 women, children and men by
the end of 2006.
• A pregnant teenager who has no one to turn
to; or
”Unparalleled to any non-profit organisation in
America today, HomeAid uniquely contributes
to each person it touches by working together
with the building industry to build dignified
housing for care providers so they can operate
• A family who has surpassed their means of
living because they are paying for a child’s
cancer treatment.
effectively and empower those in ‘transitional
circumstances’ move onto self-sufficiency,”
states Genette Eaton, CEO of HomeAid. “We
offer a charitable opportunity where donors,
benefactors, volunteers and staff of many
professions in the business sector can connect
on a personal level to help homeless women,
children and families re-establish themselves
and reconnect with their community.”
Boral’s new partnership with HomeAid is
leveraging Our People, Our Places and Our
Product community partnership framework.
Through the provision of both cash and
building products (totaling US$100,000 over
two years) Boral will be supporting several
projects in key areas in which we operate
including Atlanta (Georgia), Orange County
(California) and Denver (Colorado). Our people
will have the opportunity to get involved at
a number of levels, whether it be sales and
project staff involved in materials supply for
specific building projects, senior managers at
committee levels or staff who are interested
in doing community volunteer work with the
“temporary homeless” staying throughout
HomeAid’s homes.
Many of Boral’s largest customers in the USA
are actively involved with HomeAid and we
are looking forward to working with them
as HomeAid’s preferred brick, roof tile, or
concrete supplier on these critically important
community projects.
The HomeAid partnership program is
Boral’s key community initiative in the USA.
For more information about HomeAid visit
www.homeaid.org.
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living
green
Boral Living Green
Conservation Volunteers Australia
Conservation Volunteers
Australia – Boral Living Green
Boral’s partnership with Conservation
Volunteers Australia (CVA) encompasses
20 years of activity. The current Living
Green partnership follows on from our
participation in the Towards a Greener
Future program. Living Green aims to
identify places of environmental importance
and promote the creation, enhancement
and celebration of shared community
green places across Australia. The program
encourages Boral employees, their families
and friends to work with local community
groups and groups such as Landcare and
Bushcare to provide environmental benefits
for communities in the areas in which
Boral operates.
In the first twelve months of Living Green,
Boral people have contributed 50 volunteer
days across 10 conservation projects.
Activities include assisting the Berrima
Bushcare Group to develop an all-weather
walking track along the Wingecarribee River,
NSW; tree planting and collection of native
seed at Blackadder Creek, WA and habitat
enhancement of wetlands and tree planting
around Quarry Hills Park, VIC.
Current and planned activities
The Living Green Program has included the
following activities:
• Boral Dunmore Quarry – assistance
to wildlife groups WIRES (Wildlife
Information and Rescue Service) and
NANA (Native Animal Network Association)
construct habitats for injured flying foxes;
•B
errima region shared community
space development;
• Portland Boral Blue Circle forest
revegetation program; and
• Kilsyth Frog Bog ongoing habitat maintenance
near Montrose Quarry in Victoria.
Finding out more
To propose an area of activity or to find out
how you can get involved in current Boral
Living Green program activities in your area,
email [email protected]
Getting involved
Check out the
Living Green Website
Become a Living Green Story Teller
www.livinggreen.org.au
Our ongoing Living Green Story Tellers
competition continues for all Boral staff and
their children. (The children’s competition is
open to children aged 16 or under.)
To become a Story Teller detail the favourite
Living Green community place that you
would like to receive a week of practical
assistance from Conservation Volunteers
Australia. Send a photograph and a written
description (approx 200 words) of your
Living Green place.
The adult Living Green Story Teller
winner will receive a week of practical
assistance from Conservation Volunteers
Australia for their Living Green
community place.
Flying fox aviary at Dunmore Quarry.
Winner of the children’s competition will
receive a pack of games, toys and educational
environmental activities from Conservation
Volunteers Australia.
Entries can be emailed, faxed or posted.
Email: livinggreen@conservationvolunteers.
com.au
Fax: 03 5330 2292
Post to: Living Green Story Teller
Competition, PO Box 423 Ballarat
VIC 3353
Berrima, NSW project team.
Living Green Story Teller
COMPETITION WINNERS
Alana Sharp, stepdaughter of Janette
Stephens, Boral Quarries, NSW has been
selected as a Living Green Storyteller for
her submission on Somersby Falls in NSW.
Alana has received a pack of games, toys
and educational environmental activities
from Conservation Volunteers Australia.
As a result of Alana’s entry, Somersby Falls
was singled out for some special attention
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in a recent CVA program conducted in the
Brisbane Waters National Park.
Jane Leis of Boral Asphalt was runner-up
in the Story Teller competition for her
entry on Mawson’s Hut in Antarctica. Jane
won a year’s membership of Conservation
Volunteers Australia.
Alana Sharp
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Building Communities –
World Vision Australia
The Utamong and Saney villages were located close to the sea and were completely
destroyed following the tsunami. Boral concrete and funding is supporting
rebuilding of these villages.
Boral’s commitment to
developing and maintaining a
sustainable business includes
support and concern for
communities throughout its
area of operation.
In the wake of hurricane Katrina, Boral’s US
employees conducted a Boral USA Hurricane
Katrina Relief Fund drive that was matched
by Boral on a dollar for dollar basis. This
initiative resulted in a donation of more that
$US42,500 to the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Chapter of the American Red Cross. In the
wake of the earthquake and the 2004 Boxing
Day tsunami that devastated South East
Asia, we acted quickly to provide equipment,
labour and emergency relief of $50,000
in cash, provided through World Vision
Australia.
We committed a total of $1 million of
cash and in kind support to community
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re-building activities in the region. Boral is
providing its support through World Vision
Australia. Called, “Building Communities”,
this initiative includes both cash and
materials at a level of approximately
$200,000 per annum. “Building
Communities” will focus on post-tsunami
and community support initiatives in
Indonesia and Thailand.
In Thailand, concrete provided by Boral
will be used in the construction of a hotel
training school. When completed, this
facility will provide training to prepare
displaced local people with new employment
opportunities in the tourist industry. This is
one important way that Boral can help World
Vision to support affected communities in
re-establishing their livelihoods.
In Aceh, Indonesia, Boral will provide
funding for the construction of 118 houses in
two villages in Lhoong subdistrict, Utamong
and Saney.
Boral will also provide concrete for a World
Vision shelter project in Thailand to assist
in the construction of permanent homes for
families whose houses were devastated by
the tsunami.
Lhoong, located 65km South East of the
provincial capital of Banda Aceh, was hard
hit by the December 2004 tsunami which
completely destroyed 24 of the sub-districts’
28 villages and took the lives of around 40%
of the total population.
In addition to housing, village re-building
programs will include pathways, bridges, a
market and roads. An elementary school and
community halls are also being constructed
in the re-settlement areas.
Finding Out More
To find out more about what you can do to
support the work of World Vision Australia
visit their website www.worldvision.com.au
Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation (JDRF)
Deborah Melkie, Nadia Namuren, Gerrie Fletcher, JDRF CEO Mike Wilson, Giovanna Romeo,
Rod Pearse, Krissy Edwards, Megan Kirkbride, Caterina Bentley and Mary Isaac celebrate
Boral’s JDRF partnership.
Rod Pearse receives Boral’s third consecutive
Freedom Award from JDRF CEO Mike Wilson.
In 2001 Boral made a commitment to support the JDRF as our
preferred charity. Boral’s support of the organisation has grown
from strength to strength since then.
As an award-winning charity, JDRF
provides us with structured opportunities
to participate in fundraising and involve
our employees. Boral employees are
now engaging in a broader variety of
programs across a wider section of the
Boral businesses. Thousands of Australian
employees participated in this year’s Walk to
Cure Diabetes and interest in the cycle event
“Ride to Cure Diabetes” is also growing.
Boral is now a global walk leader and our US
employees participated in nine of the Walks
conducted in the US this year.
The JDRF mission is to “find a cure for
diabetes and its complications through
the support of research”. Over the past 12
months a number of significant results have
been achieved in Australia including:
• Announcement of $4.75m funding
for the first round of the JDRF Islet
Transplantation Program;
Research funded by JDRF Australia in
2005/06 increased by 186% to over $7.75m,
plus $52,000 in travel grants. This funding
was augmented by a further $11.1m funding
for Australian research by JDRF International,
bringing the total amount of Australian
diabetes research funded by JDRF to
$18.86m during 2005/06.
Boral has again made an outstanding
contribution to JDRF, so far our fundraising
from this year’s Walk to Cure Diabetes
stands at $240,000 well up on last year’s
total of $174,000. For three consecutive years
Boral has won the JDRF Freedom Award for
the highest corporate fundraising team in
the Walk to Cure Diabetes.
Finding out more
For information relating to JDRF
activities go to Boral OnSite or email
[email protected]
• $14.1m invested over a further 55
Australian research projects; and
• $2.2m raised from the 2005 Walk to
Cure Diabetes.
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Outward Bound Australia
Boral Family Re-discovery Programs
Outward Bound is one of
Australia’s most respected,
not for profit, personal
development organisations.
The Boral Partnership with Outward Bound,
which began in 2003, is an important part
of Boral’s broader commitment to corporate
responsibility and supporting, nurturing
and developing employees. The partnership
includes a number of initiatives.
Boral Outward Bound Family
Re-Discovery Scholarships
These popular scholarships have provided a
vehicle for Boral families to re-connect and
move forward as a stronger unit. Participating
employees are encouraged to maximise
personal growth and work effectiveness
through attaining an appropriate work
/life balance. Developed for family pairs
of an adult and high-school aged son or
daughter, (ideally 14-16 years of age) the
program provides a shared experience for
family members that is both challenging
and fun. Participants spend nine days in the
Australian bush, expeditioning with packs on
backs and maps in hand, interspersed with
adventure activities such as rock climbing,
abseiling and ropes courses.
Family Re-Discovery Scholarships are
offered annually to all Australian-based Boral
employees, with a high-school aged son or
daughter. The program has continued to enjoy
wide popularity. Since 2004 a total of 48 Boral
families have benefited from the program.
Due to its success, Boral together with
Outward Bound, is now promoting the Family
Re-Discovery program to other companies.
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Boral Outward Bound Leadership
Experience Programs
These outdoor programs of five days
duration are specifically designed for
Boral’s Emerging Leaders Program
participants and middle managers. The
programs offer challenges that range
from the physical and intellectual to the
emotional and social. Both enjoyable
and confronting, learning activities are
designed to strengthen individual capacity
and personal confidence and build the
community and work team awareness
needed for successful modern business
leadership. 57 Boral managers have now
participated in this program.
Harden Education Foundation
Opportunities
As a contribution to the communities in
which we operate, Boral further partners
with Outward Bound to provide, through the
Harden Education Foundation, opportunities
for youth in remote, marginalised or
disadvantaged communities to gain access
to critical life skills through participation in
Outwork Bound courses.
Current and Planned Activities
Outward Bound courses have been
completed for the year 2006.
The 2007 courses will take place as follows:
Boral Outward Bound Family
Re-Discovery Scholarships
ACT/NSW
VIC (also open to SA/TAS applicants)
Victoria – 4 Scholarships
Snowy River Family
January 20 to 28, 2007
QLD (also open to NT applicants)
Queensland (Kyogle) – 3 Scholarships
Rainforest Family
June 30 to July 8, 2007
WA – 4 scholarships (also open
to SA applicants)
April 10 to 18, 2007
Outward Bound Leadership Programs
May 20 to 25, 2007
August 26 to 31, 2007
Getting Involved
To apply for a Boral Family Re-Discovery
Scholarship download the application form
from the learning@boral on OnSite or
contact learning@boral on (02)9220 6500 or
email learning@boral for a form.
Once completed the form is sent directly to
Outward Bound Australia.
Applications for Boral Family Re-Discovery
Course Scholarships close 2 to 3 months
prior to commencement of the program.
Finding Out More
For further information relating to
applications for the Boral Family ReDiscovery Scholarship or the Outward Bound
Leadership Experience course contact
learning@boral on (02)9220 6500.
New South Wales – 5 Scholarships
Australian Alps Family
January 13 to 21, 2007
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Bangarra Dance Theatre
Boral has provided sponsorship
for Australia’s leading indigenous
dance company, Bangarra Dance
Theatre since January 2003.
Bangarra Dance Theatre is one of Australia’s
most unique and innovative dance
companies. Its living traditions go back at
least 40,000 years but it also reflects the
lives and attitudes of indigenous people
today. The company blends traditional
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history
and culture with international contemporary
dance to create a truly Australian
dance language.
This sponsorship is Boral’s key arts
development initiative and supports Boral’s
commitment to respectful and sensitive
development of Australia’s places and
culture. Through this initiative we hope
to demonstrate our commitment to the
community, make a meaningful contribution
to the Arts and further our understanding of
Australia’s indigenous history and traditions.
As well as providing cultural and community
support, this sponsorship provides
opportunities for Boral people to be involved
with the dance company. Discounted tickets
are available to Boral employees
for Bangarra Dance theatre performances
across Australia.
During 2006 the company collaborated with
the Australian Ballet in a full length work,
Gathering, which toured Australian capital
cities. 70 Boral staff and their clients attended
these performances, with an additional 150
Boral people enjoying a dedicated oneoff performance, hosted by Boral, in July
2006. Bangarra Dance Theatre maintains a
tradition of making the arts accessible across
Australia and this year has undertaken a
major tour of Australian regional centres,
including Alice Springs, Cairns and Darwin
with performances of the productions, Clan
and Spirit. This has allowed opportunities
for a further 134 of Boral’s venture partners
and employees, across Australia, to attend
Bangarra performances.
2007 Programs
Bangarra Dance Theatre has recently
undertaken a UK tour with the production
Bush.
Details of the group’s 2007 capital city and
regional programs will be available in an
upcoming edition of Boral in the News.
Finding Out More
Visit the Web Site
Go to the Bangarra Dance Theatre Website
at www.bangarra.com.au
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Taronga &Western
Plains Zoo
Following the success of our initial three year
sponsorship of Taronga Zoo, in 2006 Boral has
extended its sponsorship for a further three years
and increased its financial commitment.
This highly successful sponsorship
has included direct support through
contribution of materials for the Zoo’s 12
year redevelopment program. As a result
many of the Zoo’s new exhibits incorporate
Boral aggregates, concrete, timber,
plasterboard and paving.
Boral has also provided examples of
sustainability in practice, particularly in
the area of the timber industry. These
are incorporated in the Boral sponsored
Backyard to Bush exhibit. This exhibit
explores the relationship between
Australia’s increasingly urbanised
environment, rural existence and the
bush. Environmental awareness lessons
and domestic livestock and native animal
presentations are featured.
Boral’s extended three year sponsorship
means additional support for conservation
and education programs for young people,
such as Youth at the Zoo (YATZ) a volunteer
program for teenagers aged 13 to 18. YATZ
brings teenagers into a range of projects
at Taronga. They learn about wildlife, get
involved in bush regeneration and act as
youth ambassadors for the Zoo. The
new Boral sponsorship will also assist
upgrade of the popular children’s Animal
Encounters facility.
The Zoo sponsorship has proved especially
popular with Boral families. Employees
across Australia have shown keen interest in
booking Boral sponsor passes for free family
days at the Zoo. A record 1680 employees
and their families used sponsor passes to
visit Taronga or Western Plains Zoos in the
past year. Strong support has also been
shown for other Zoo activities including
attendance by 110 Boral staff and clients at
Taronga’s Twilight Concert Series during
February and March 2006.
Current and Planned Activities
• Win a Trip to San Diego Zoo California. Go
to www.zoo.nsw.gov.au for your entry form,
terms and conditions.
• Visit the Zoo for just 90c on your Birthday.
As a Birthday offer, from 1 July 2006 to 30
June 2007 you can visit the Zoo on your
Birthday for just 90c. Bring some photo ID
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with your birth date or a birth certificate
for under 18s. You can also visit the Zoo for
free using a Boral Gold Pass.
• If you are visiting the Zoo using the
Boral Gold Pass you can show the pass
to receive 15% discount on gifts and
homewares at retail outlets at Taronga
and Western Plains.
Getting Involved
Book a Boral Gold Pass
Send an email to the contact person in your
business unit and State, listed on Boral
OnSite, to book your Boral Gold Pass.
When requesting a zoo pass, advise the date
of your intended booking, whether you wish
to visit Taronga or Western Plains Zoo and
how many people will be in your family/
group. (Don’t include children under 4 in
the number as they are already entitled to
free admission.)
You will be required to return the zoo
pass promptly after your visit, to allow
the maximum number of staff to have an
opportunity to utilise a zoo pass.
Finding Out More
From the Boral OnSite Home Page go
to Safety Environment & Community/
Community Sponsorship & Involvement/
Partnerships/Taronga and Western
Plains Zoos.
If you are interested in more information
on Boral’s Youth at the Zoo email
[email protected]
Bruno’s 40 years
with plasterboard
Apart from working for a very short time on the family farm in
Victoria, Bruno Punturere has spent his entire working life in the
company’s plasterboard operations.
Bruno ‘came to town’ and got a job at
Oakleigh with Australian Gypsum, which
was eventually acquired by the Boral Group.
His initial work as a board plant operator was
very different from the life of an operator
today. He had to keep a keen eye on the
production line to make sure the product
had no faulty edges and a good profile. Now
this work is fully automated.
To say the very least, safety was basic 40 years
ago. There were no effective guards on the
machinery, yet his hands were frequently
working very close to the equipment forming
the boards. Also, there was very little data then
on the chemicals being used. “The company
has come along in leaps and bounds since that
time,” he said.
Dams contained the slurry. However, the slurry
tended to build up on the edge formers and it
had to be cleaned out with a trowel before it
became solid. If Bruno failed to keep a sharp
eye on the production line, the hardened
compound could fall into the system and break
the paper – with dire consequences.
Safety for truck drivers was also very
different in those days. The drivers had
to clamber on top of the stacked product
to secure their loads. Falls were not
uncommon. However, Bruno says that, today,
Boral “really looks after its people”.
Within a couple of years, Bruno started rising
through the ranks. Clearly his managers saw
that he had potential and he quickly moved
into quality assurance, then distribution and
production management. Only nine years
after starting at the bottom, he was in a very
responsible position. “The opportunities were
there and I grabbed them with both hands,”
he said.
“There’s always opportunities for young people
who want to get on. They can gain plenty of
knowledge and experience in a company like
Boral. The opportunities for promotion will
come their way if they do the right thing by
themselves and the company,” he said. This
has certainly been the case for Bruno.
Bruno’s career with the company has also
taken him overseas to work in Asia – in the
first instance to Gresik, Indonesia, where the
Oakleigh plant was ‘exported’ to start a new
plasterboard manufacturing operation. Then he
was assigned to an existing plant in Malaysia,
which was producing substandard material
and an extraordinarily high amount of waste.
Bruno Punturere
The key to his success there was training the
employees in better working methods.
“Although the configurations of the plants in
Asia were different from those in Australia,
Boral wanted me to go there because of my
knowledge of the manufacturing process. The
Asian plants were far more labour intensive
than in Victoria, with three and four times
more employees working in each plant.
“It was difficult at the start, because
most of the workers had never even seen
plasterboard, let alone being told to make it.
The type of gypsum we were using in Asia
was totally different, but the plasterboard
had to end up identical to the Australian
produced product,” he said.
Throughout much of his later career, Bruno
has constantly pitched in to sort out problems.
Over the past decade in Australia he has been
managing production at Boral Plasterboard’s
plant at Port Melbourne.
“When I started out, I had no idea that I would
one day be working at these levels. There have
always been challenges but these 40 years have
been really good for me. I have enjoyed them
very much and I intend to continue to enjoy
them for a great many years to come,” he said.
Industry award
recognises Tina’s
achievements
Tina Watkin (Boral’s Quality,
Safety and Environmental
Manager – Asphalt Division)
has won the Award for
Innovative Practices at the
National Association of
Women in Construction
(Queensland) 2006
Excellence Awards.
According to NAWIC in Queensland, women
represent only a small fraction of the
construction industry, yet successfully map
out careers at many levels, adding unique
value to their teams, the industry and the
Australian economy.
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Tina with the Boral
Asphalt GM Kevin
McCullough on the
night of the awards.
The Association says that NAWIC
Queensland “recognises the challenges
these women face, as well as the need to
showcase the achievements of great women
in construction”.
The Award for Innovative Practices was open
to people with achievements in business
practices including safety, environmental
issues and EEO implementation.
As the winner, Tina was judged to have
demonstrated:
• impact on the workforce, community
environment and surrounding communities;
• effective consultation and liaison with
users, the workforce and other parts of the
industry;
• use of lateral thinking; and
• a knowledge of and improvement on
world’s best practice benchmarks.
Tina continues to make a strong
contribution to Boral Asphalt’s business in
Queensland. Highly respected at all levels
within the company, she is an inspirational
role model for up and coming women in the
construction industry.
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Boral staff make
model models
About 30 of our employees were able to show off their
modelling skills when a representative group was
assembled recently for a photographic shoot for the cover
of Boral’s 2006 Annual Report.
The brief was to show two groups of
Boral employees on the cover of the
Annual Review and the Sustainability
Report ‘celebrating’ Boral’s 60th
anniversary year.
One group represented our workforce
and the other our community
partnerships and work-life balance.
The request for volunteers was
made through HR managers and the
organisers were thrilled with the
turnout on the day. In fact, it turned into
a mini reunion for many employees who
were able to catch up with colleagues
from other divisions and sites.
There was a great sense of camaraderie
and willingness to get on with the job
at hand, even when it meant hours of
smiling for the camera and standing
around trying different poses under
bright lights.
Unfortunately some of our great talent
ended up ‘on the cutting room floor’ but
the final result has drawn enthusiastic
responses from employees, customers
and shareholders.
Boral’s employees in Thailand
celebrate our 60th anniversary
Even though the Boral name in
Thailand is only two years old
and the concrete and quarry
business we acquired has
been operating for less than 15
years, Boral’s Thai employees
have no trouble relating to
the idea of celebrating the
Company’s 60th anniversary.
That is because, like all Thailand’s people,
they are also celebrating the 60th anniversary
of their beloved King Bumiphol Aduliyadet’s
ascension to the throne.
From 9 – 13 June, they took part in the
celebrations and showed their support by
wearing the yellow colour of the King. A poster
carried comments from Boral’s head office
staff, expressing their devotion to the world’s
longest serving monarch, who has ruled with
righteousness and for the benefit of all the
Thai people.
The employees in Thailand are celebrating
Boral’s 60th year by remembering staff
birthdays, organising a customer golf day
and engaging in community development via
Boral’s ongoing Tsunami relief program.
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Trucks in transport ‘crisis’
in Melbourne
Boral Transport recently was under the critical eye of the police, fire and emergency services and
the EPA when two of its vehicles were involved in a major incident on the South Gippsland Highway
at Dandenong – only it was all simulated.
The exercise involved Boral carrying out a
pretty routine operation – a roadside transfer
of bitumen from a Boral tri-axle semi tanker
to a Boral Asphalt road sprayer. However, the
scenario was different on this occasion – the
simulation was of a workplace accident which
resulted in a number of Boral personnel
being injured.
“The staged event involved a transfer hose
rupturing and spraying hot bitumen (180
degrees) over a number of Boral employees,
which caused varying degree of burns. Two
employees were critical while the remainder
were burned to a much lesser degree,” said
Rob Mercuri, who organised the ‘incident’ with
Leigh Gesthuizen.
“Although we all knew it was an exercise the
dangers and possible outcomes were all very
real in our minds. Seeing ‘injured’ workers
lying on the ground surrounded by many
emergency service personnel trying to keep
them alive certainly put a lump in my throat
and emotionally challenged my ability to keep
a cool head – especially at such times when
police approached me on site with many
questions about the injured and what Boral
was doing to notify their immediate families.
“It was a situation that is hard to explain in
words as you had to be there to experience the
mayhem associated with such a disastrous
accident,” he said.
Leigh said that a great deal was learned from
the exercise and there would be a number of
important outcomes, which included:
• Boral Transport and Boral Asphalt’s
emergency procedures being reviewed and
updated, with all relevant employees to
undergo updated procedure training.
• The current Boral Transport bitumen
emergency contact is being reviewed to make
000 as the first contact.
• Boral personnel must better coordinate
and inform the emergency services of their
location in an event of an emergency.
• Boral Transport will research industry
best practices, review and update these
procedures and practices, and ensure that
all relevant employees undergo updated
procedures training.
New Trucks friendly to the environment
Boral Transport is taking
delivery of five concrete
agitator trucks powered by
compressed natural gas (CNG)
for use initially in the Sydney
metropolitan area.
CNG is regarded as an environmentally clean
substitute for petrol and diesel fuel and has
been widely used by Australian taxis and
buses and transport companies overseas for a
number of years.
The new vehicles represent a significant
commitment by the company to this fuel
because their 280hp spark ignition Cummins
engines are not ‘dual fuel’ operated.
Greg Johnson, Boral’s NSW Environmental
Manager, said that he did not know of any
suppliers offering CNG-fuelled concrete
agitator vehicles.
“Because we wanted these vehicles, we had
to persuade the truck manufacturer and the
engine supplier that it was commercially
viable for them to produce these first CNGonly trucks,” he said.
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“Pilot programs like this are vital if we are to
improve our understanding of the technology,
engine workability and re-fuelling logistics of
these vehicles.”
Boral Transport has long been involved
in ‘frontline’ research and development
into the use of alternate fuels for heavy
vehicles trialling:
This was the initial exercise for the bitumen
tanker and the consensus from all parties
involved was that it was fairly well coordinated
and carried out by all personnel. Future
training and exercises will enhance everybody’s
awareness and skills.
Further information of the staging of the
exercise and the lessons learned from it are
available from Rob Mercuri on 0401 897 147 or
Leigh Gesthuizen on 0401 892 244.
The first CNG
truck, fitted with a
mixer at Davcron,
will carry an
estimated 6.8
– 7.0 cubic metres,
compared to the
standard 7.2 cubic
metres.
• LPG from 1975 to 1992;
• ethanol in the early 1990s;
• biodiesel in 2002; and
• using CNG as an alternative fuel since 2003.
“We currently see CNG or Liquid Natural Gas
(LNG), also biodiesel, as the most practical,
logical and viable alternatives to diesel fuel for
heavy vehicles in Australia,” said Greg.
“Recently, we have been working on a
CNG demonstration project in partnership
with the Australian Greenhouse Office,
under the auspices of its Alternate Fuels
Conversion Program.
“For this, we bought two trucks modified to
operate on dual fuel (around 70 per cent CNG
and 30 per cent diesel) and started evaluating
them. Unfortunately this program had to be
wound down last year because of a lack of
availability of CNG at service stations. These
trucks are still operational on CNG, so we can
continue to develop hardware and software
and gain valuable operational knowledge,”
said Greg.
Boral also plans to begin a trial program with
biodiesel in NSW this year in partnership
with Caltex and local manufacturers of
biodiesel.
World sustainability expert
visits Australia and Blue Circle
Southern Cement
The local cement industry was offered insights into international cement sustainability and given a
stamp of approval following the recent visit to Australia by Dr Howard Klee, a director of the World
Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Dr Klee is director of two programs – one of
which is the Cement Sustainability Initiative.
The plan and its ‘Agenda For Action’ were
established to map out the industry’s future
in a world that is becoming increasingly
anxious about limited raw fuel and material
sources, greenhouse gas emissions and
social and environmental impacts from
heavy industry.
A non-government organisation, the
World Business Council for Sustainable
Development is funded by close to 200 of the
world’s biggest businesses.
“The main function of the Council is to help
companies deal more effectively with the
social and environmental aspects of being in
business,” he said.
Dr Klee’s visit to Australia was facilitated by
the Cement Industry Federation, of which
Blue Circle Southern Cement is a member
company. His first official appointment was
a tour of Blue Circle Southern Cement’s
Berrima plant, facilitated by acting manager
Grant Williams and Federation staff, Stuart
Ritchie and Naomi Brown.
“We have been working collaboratively with
the Australian Government for a number of
years on improving our sustainability,” Grant
told Dr Klee. “This includes using more
alternative materials recovered from the
waste stream, and this has been recognised
by the government.”
Dr Klee said he was very impressed with
the industry in Australia. “A 24 per cent
reduction in greenhouse emissions since
1990 is a marvellous result when taking into
account that production has doubled.”
“The global cement industry has very real
contributions to make in regards to its
sustainability and to the communities it
serves, along with the obvious and necessary
economic benefits.
“China is currently producing half the
world’s cement, though many of the plants
are using older and less sustainable
technology which is of major concern to the
Council,” he said.
In Sydney, he gave his final Australian
presentation to Boral staff at the Company’s
head office and held meetings with Blue
Circle Southern Cement National General
Manager Mike Beardsell and Executive
General Manager of Boral’s Cement
Division, Phil Jobe.
“The monitoring and recording undertaken
by the Australian cement companies over
the last 15 years is tremendous. Many other
countries would be hard pressed to produce
that amount of quality information,” he said.
Top left: Federal Environment Minister Senator
Ian Campbell met with Dr Howard Klee at
Parliament House, Canberra to discuss the
Australian cement industry’s sustainability.
Bottom left: Stuart Ritchie (Cement Industry
Federation), Grant Williams (Blue Circle
Southern Cement, Berrima) and Dr Howard
Klee (World Business Council for Sustainable
Development) take in the views of the NSW
Southern Highlands from the Berrima
preheater tower.
Right: Climbing up to the kiln at Blue
Circle’s Berrima plant.
Photos by Naomi Brown.
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Boral Select at Castle Hill
sets a new standard
Homebuilders and
renovators in the
north-west of Sydney
can now discover the
latest in bricks, roof
tiles and pavers at
a new ‘Boral Select
Centre’ at Castle Hill.
This centre, which is open seven days a
week, is the second to be opened – one at
Wyong NSW opened last year. It was officially
opened by the Mayor of Baulkham Hills Shire,
Councillor Sonya Phillips, in an event that
was hosted by Keith Mitchelhill, EGM Clay &
Concrete Products, and attended by about 100
guests and staff members.
Boral Select Castle Hill is the company’s
‘flagship’ selection centre on the East Coast
and it is the first to combine products
from Boral Bricks, Boral Roofing and Boral
Masonry. It is also the first to have a full suite
of internal and external colour and product
selection tools.
Outdoors is an extensive range of Boral’s
building products. An indoor Studio Zone
has easy-to-use colour tools, ideas, handy
hints and a checklist to ensure that nothing
is forgotten.
“We have moved away from traditional displays
to create a more realistic interactive experience
that will inform and inspire,“ said Michelle
Camilleri, Bricks East Marketing Manager.
Among the highlights is BoralVision;
an exclusive computer imaging program
that brings colour schemes and product
selections to ‘life’ on virtually any
home style.
TUNE INTO TV FOR TILES
For the first time, Boral Roofing is using television in
a marketing campaign to support its flat and shaped
terracotta ranges.
Boral roof tiles were featured recently in a segment of Channel Ten’s popular Home
Lifestyle series, which demonstrated the benefits of terracotta in many different
house styles.
Presenter Alyssa Jane Cook reminded viewers that, just as we have to protect our skin
from Australia’s harsh climate, the roof of our home also deserves careful attention to
ensure it does the best job for our families.
“Whether you’re building a brand new home, re-roofing your old one, renovating
or extending, take a closer look at Boral … and get hold of their free guide, Roofing
Insights – full of helpful hints and tips,” she said.
With a shift toward textured surfaces both inside and out, Boral used the program
to launch eight fresh new colours to its shaped terracotta collection – which now
features 20 different shades.
National Product Manager Kathy Casha said that Boral’s popular new flat Terracotta
Shingle range also has more muted neutral tones that work well with new trends in
a broad array of exterior materials, yet hold the enduring character and strength of
natural clay.
Boral Roofing customers have received a copy of the Home Lifestyle DVD to play
in-store and point-of-sale material. If you want to see the segment yourself, just visit
www.boral.com.au/roofinginsightstv
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There are more than 250 products on display,
including 190 or so brick, block and paver
colours and textures and 60 terracotta and
concrete roof tiles. Other attractions include a
children’s play area, which enables parents to
focus on their purchasing decisions.
“After seeing some of your
competitors as well yesterday, I
would like to say that your centre
is very well placed indeed.”
– Jennifer Crawford RAIA; Design Coordinator,
Ropes Crossing
Putting a human face
on our marketing
Keen-eyed followers of Boral’s Australian advertising themes would have noticed that there is now
the tag ‘Creating Better Living’ alongside the company’s logo. This line is part of a new and carefully
considered approach to how the company is seen by its employees, customers, investors, the
media and many other groups it wants to influence.
It reflects Boral’s new positioning statement
that ‘the company is striving to create better
solutions to the challenges of modern living’.
Taken in total, the essence of Boral today is ‘life
enhancement’ and that is why ‘Creating Better
Living’ is the right tag for the times,” he said.
Looking at the tag’s individual elements:
“The bricks we make, the plasterboard, the
concrete, the windows and our other products
enhance people’s lives in many ways. They are
not just buying the products, they are buying
what our products can do for them.
Creating: is about being innovative and forward
thinking. To be creative is to be contemporary
and responsive to the needs of today.
Better: implies that there is continuous
improvement in the way we do things and meet
the challenges that our customers (and also their
customers) face, and how we can help them to
‘do things better’.
Living: is about people being more focused on
‘living’ on their lifestyles and how Boral can add
to people enjoying better lives.
Glenn Simpkin, National General Manager,
Sales & Marketing, said that Boral was far more
than a supplier of building products.
“We touch people in so many ways – in the
homes where they live, the roads they drive on,
the stadiums they go to, where they work – every
day of their lives.
“If you look at the company’s name in this way,
Boral is quite a ‘grand brand’. What we are doing
is capitalising on this.
“The ‘Creating Better Living’ line is far more
than an afterthought in an advertisement. It is
part of the theme that is starting to run through
the company’s promotion in many ways. For
example, it has pride of place on the Boral web
site (www.boral.com.au). Click it and you’ll see
some great brand stories. You will see much
more of them in the near future, as we rollout
the words internally and externally in a wide
variety of ways.
“The phrase even extends to our sponsorships.
Just think how we are ‘creating better living’
through what we give to research to find a cure
for Juvenile Diabetes, or our involvement in
Outward Bound, or our important contribution
to the community through employing more than
15,000 people.
“We’re creating better living for a great many
people, and in a multitude of ways. It’s much
more than a slogan. We’re living it day by day,”
said Glenn.
Winning angles
in design
competition
Walter Barda Design has won Boral Roofing’s inaugural
design award – ‘A Different Pitch’.
The design award was created to
challenge outdated perceptions of roofing
and create contemporary alternatives in
roof design using tiles.
The winning team, Walter Barda, Jaie
Midei and Adrian Esdaile, created ‘Terra
Tipi’, a dynamic conceptual design that
impressed the judges with what was
described as a “creative reinterpretation
of the flat Terracotta Shingle roof tile”.
“Primarily by stretching the material
beyond traditional expectations for roof
tiles, Terra Tipi stands out for its inventive
origami forms, spatial possibilities and,
importantly, its sensitivity to Australia’s
natural landscape and climate,” said
Boral Roofing National Product Manager
Kathy Casha.
Walter Barda said the conceptual
intention of the design was to challenge
the conventional thinking about roof tiles.
“The refined profile of Boral’s flat
Terracotta Shingle lends itself in this
design to an expressive steel-framed
armature, forming a resilient outer shell
to the building. The opportunities for
varied pitch have generated a hybrid
cross-section, blurring the distinction
between roof and wall into a continuous
folding sheath.”
The other finalists were:
• Shem Kelder – Camouflage House;
• Latitude Architects (Milenko Podnar,
Wayne Reid and Tony Cotter) – Peak
House;
• Carter Williamson (Shaun Carter,
Linda Matthews and Anna Williamson)
– The Fifth Façade.
“The judging panel was pleased with
the level of innovation brought to
the finalists’ submissions, all of
which explored creative construction
possibilities,” said Kathy.
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‘Walk’ is raising big money
Dear Rod,
On behalf of Select Australasia and all of our specialist
recruitment brands, I would like to extend my warmest
appreciation to you and Boral for introducing us to
the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
Since informing us about the annual JDRF Walk to
Cure Diabetes and inviting us to participate, we have
embraced the organisation and the important work
being done to help find a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. All
of our 20 recruitment brands have joined forces over
the last nine weeks to coordinate entertaining and
creative fundraising activities which included:
• Hosting a JDRF Youth Ambassador Information
Morning Tea with Robin Town, General Manager of
Human Resources at Boral who described Boral’s
experiences in being involved with the JDRF and
the important work being done;
• Participating in the JDRF Walk at Centennial Park;
• Organising an impressive JDRF raffle with lots
of fabulous prizes; a jelly-bean guessing
competition as well as special Jewellery and Donut
fundraising Days;
• Holding a special JDRF mufti-day and Funny
Footwear competition; and
• Selling Entertainment Books and
Movie Tickets to raise funds.
At last count, Boral’s fundraising total for this year’s JDRF
Walk was over $220,000. However, the total is still climbing
as businesses continue to raise and bank funds.
Boral people have been particularly
strong supporters this year,
with around 2500 employees,
family members and suppliers
enthusiastically taking part in the
2006 Walk – held across Australia
and the US to raise funds for research
into a cure for juvenile diabetes.
In the period leading up to the event,
Boral employees across the regions
and businesses were asked to promote
Walk day, as well as assist fundraising
activities leading up to the Walk by
becoming walk captains.
This year Boral had 87 walk captains
who ‘wanted to make a difference’ and
worked hard to encourage others to
join in the fun.
They shared fundraising ideas and
often worked together to raise funds.
Some of their fundraising ideas
this year included on-line auctions,
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morning teas, production of a ‘Boral
employee’ calendar and raffles.
Senior managers represented Boral
on JDRF Committees across Australia,
championed the cause in their
business and provided assistance to
their local walk captains.
As further support, Boral held a
‘Design a T-shirt’ competition for
Boral’s walkers to wear on the day.
This was a great way to promote the
event and was excellent in engaging
Boral families and employees.
There have also been fantastic
individual fundraising efforts: among
them the $10,000 raised by Angelia
Figueira of Blue Circle Southern
Cement by facilitating regular on-line
auctions. Great effort Angelia.
Thank you also to everyone who
participated and supported this
worthy cause.
However, I think the most fun we had was having our
senior management team auctioned off as Slaves For
An Hour, raising a significant amount of money for
the JDRF and which is continuing to amuse us all as
they are being made to do highly entertaining and
unusual tasks.
As a result of these activities, we are proud to say
that we have raised $15,000 for the JDRF to help
them continue their important work. We are also
proud of the fact that we have supported you, Boral in
your fundraising work, as one of our most important
clients. In addition to this, Select Australasia has
benefited by coming together as one big family
to organise these events and we have had a lot of
fun doing it. Thank you again for inviting us to be
involved in this important work with you and we
look forward to being involved again next year, as
well as partnering together in many other ways in
the future.
Best wishes,
Debbie Loveridge
CEO, Select Australasia
Marathon swim breaks world record
The deep blue water of Lake Argyle in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia was the
location for a recent 62 kilometre marathon swim by six-members of the Balmoral Beach Club in
Sydney; including Andrew Rosengren, GM Boral Transport.
The team set a record for the world’s longest
freshwater swim and was successful in raising
$100,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service
(RFDS). Boral supported both the swim and
the RFDS, which plays a vital role in providing
critical medical services in the outback.
Lake Argyle is one of the largest bodies of
freshwater in the world. Its surface area is nine
times that of Sydney Harbour and it is home
to a wide diversity of wildlife, including some
30,000 freshwater crocodiles.
The swim was named in memory of one of
Australia’s great pastoral pioneers, Patsy
Durack, who settled the Kimberley region in the
late 1800s. A particularly moving moment for
the team was when they swam over the site of
the old Argyle Downs homestead (now some 30
metres below the water level).
Andrew said the swim also had its eerie
moments. “Despite swimming in a safety cage,
the thought of potentially being in the same
bit of water as saltwater crocodiles was quite
unnerving,” he said.
The swim was also well supported by a number
of leading Boral suppliers including Linde
Material Handling, Orica, and Blackwoods.
Left: The team at the finish line display the
sponsor logo’s.
Top right: Team at start of the event – we can
just see the first day’s finishing point in the
horizon – 25 km away. Shows the enormity
of the lake.
Bottom right: photo at the half way point
– directly over the submerged historic Argyle
Downs Homestead.
Photos by Andrew Gregory – a professional
Australian Geographic contracted
photographer who travelled with us as an
official photographer.
Sunstate wins award
for mature employees
Boral’s 50% owned Sunstate Cement has won this year’s Australian
HR Award for Best Mature Age Workforce Implementation.
“Australia’s ageing workforce is an issue that
no company can afford to ignore and it is
already having a significant impact on some
organisations,” said Errol Peters, Sunstate’s
Financial Controller and Company
Secretary, who received the award.
The award recognises organisations that
have “seized the initiative” and taken an
innovative approach to preparing for the
ageing of their workforce.
Errol’s team at Sunstate Cement developed
a broadly-based system which features a
range of innovative incentives designed
to encourage employees to disclose their
intentions well before retirement.
“This helps the company to assist
employees in their lifestyle transition and
improves the retention of the company’s
intellectual property,” said Errol.
The awards were presented in Sydney
at a dinner organised by Human
Resources Magazine.
The award was presented to Errol Peters
by Margaret Seaberg, Director of SageCo,
sponsor of the Best Mature Age Workforce
Implementation category.
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Boral Birthday Box
History Quiz
Win a $2,000 flat screen TV with this edition’s quiz on Boral’s history.
(Hint, hint, the timeline featured in the May-July issue of Boral In The News might help)
Terms and Conditions:
1. Who founded Boral?
1. The promoter is Boral Limited (ABN 13 008 421 761) (“Boral”), 50
Bridge St, Sydney NSW 2000.
2. Boral is an acronym for?
2. Information on how to enter and prize details form part of the
conditions of entry. By entering the competition, entrants accept
these conditions of entry.
3.In what month and year did Boral separate its building and construction
business from its energy interests?
3. The competition is known as the Boral Birthday Box Promotion
and is only open to employees of Boral who are based in Australia.
4. Name two countries other than Australia in which Boral operates?
4. To enter a person must complete the key elements in the
competition, as outlined in Boral in the News. Only one entry is
permitted from each staff member. Entries may be submitted by fax
to (02) 9223 8439, via email to [email protected] or by post
marked Boral Birthday Box Promotion and sent to GPO Box 910,
Sydney NSW 2001 and must include the staff member’s name, work
address and a contact telephone number.
5. In 2006, Boral launched its new Australian marketing tag line. What is it?
5. The Competition closes at 5pm on Friday 15 December 2006.
6.Following the Asian tsunami in 2004, Boral pledged $1 million for the relief efforts.
Which organisation is Boral partnering with to support the rebuilding activity?
6. There are 7 prizes available in the competition. The first correct
entry drawn will receive a flat screen television set. The second
correct entry drawn will receive a Coles Myer gift voucher from
Giftvouchers.com for $500. The third correct entry will receive
a Coles Myer gift voucher from Giftvouchers.com for $200. The
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh prize winners will receive ABC
Shop gift vouchers from Giftvouchers.com for $50.
7.Boral made a major cement acquisition in 1987 that would play a pivotal role in
its future expansion. What company was acquired?
8.For the year ending 30 June 2006, what was the total Sales Revenue for Boral Limited?
9.In what year did Boral enter the USA marketplace? Boral is the largest market of
what product in the USA?
10.Boral and its staff are passionate fundraisers for the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation and for its efforts have won the award for being the highest corporate
fundraising team in Australia. What is the name of that Award?
7. Winners agree to allow Boral to use their name, image and
likeness for the purposes of promoting and publicising the Boral
Birthday Box Promotion in future editions of Boral in the News or
within other Boral communications. Winners must be prepared
to provide a digital photograph of themselves for competition
promotion purposes immediately upon notification of their success.
8. The winning entries will be selected by a Boral employee from
the Legal Department at Boral’s premises at 50 Bridge St, Sydney
on Monday 18 December 2006. The selection process is final and
no correspondence will be entered into.
9. The winners will be notified by telephone and their name
published on Boral OnSite and in the next issue of Boral in
the News.
10. To the extent permitted by law, Boral shall not be liable for any
loss or damage whatsoever suffered (including but not limited to
indirect or consequential loss) or personal injury which is suffered
or sustained in connection with the prize.
Name:
Address:
Postcode:
Boral Business Unit: Contact phone number:
Entries may be submitted by fax to (02) 9223 8439, or by post marked Boral Birthday Box Promotion and sent to GPO Box 910, Sydney NSW 2001 and must include the
staff member’s name, work address and a contact telephone number. The Competition closes at 5pm on Friday 15 December 2006. Only one entry per employee please.
Boral Birthday Box Management Committee Quiz Winners
Jason Daunt, who is the Company Quality
Representative for Boral Contracting at Whinstanes in
Queensland has won an Acer Flat Screen television set
worth around $2,000.
Jason Daunt
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“Since starting again with Boral last year, the support
and training I have been exposed to has been first
class and I can clearly see that it was a good decision to
rejoin this organisation,” he said.
Winner: Jason Daunt, ACM, Whinstanes, QLD
2nd prize: Russell Greene, C&C, Carole Park, QLD
3rd Prize: Grant Inberg, Plasterboard, Camellia, NSW
4th Prize: Andrew Wallace, C&C, Carole Park, QLD
5th prize: Rosemary Butler, Boral Ltd, Sydney, NSW
6th prize: Mira Motiani, SBS, Prospect, NSW
7th prize: Angela Middleton, C&C, Middle Swan, WA
BITN 9/06
Children’s Competition
Spot the Difference
There is a $100 Coles Myer voucher for each of the first two correct
entries drawn and two runner-up prizes of Taronga Zoo merchandise.
Circle the differences and mail in your entry.
Child’s Name:
Age:
Address:
Postcode:
Boral family member’s name:
Business unit and location:
Entries should be marked Boral Birthday Spot the Difference Competition and submitted by mail to GPO Box 910, Sydney NSW 2001. One entry per child
only please. Competition closes at 5pm Friday 15 December 2006.
Children’s Colouring Competition Winners
Molly Barker
BITN 9/06
Under 8 Category
9-15 years Category
Winner: Molly Barker Age 7
(Peter Barker, ACM, Moss Vale, NSW)
Winner: Michael Prasad Age 12
(Vijendra Prasad, ACM, Middle Swan, WA)
Runner-Up: Ben Pyne Age 4
(Steve Pyne, ACM, Milton, Qld)
Runner-Up: Bethanie Leigh Age 9
(Susan Leigh, C&C, Wacol, Qld)
Runner-Up: Anthony Bounassil Age 2
(Charlie Bounassil, ACM, Prospect, NSW)
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Supporting the
Pedalling Penguin
Long-time and loyal Boral
Plasterboard customer
Patrick Thompson conducted
a courageous ride across
Australia to raise funds for
the ‘Children’s Leukaemia
Research Foundation’.
He started the ride early in May from
Surfers Point overlooking the Indian
Ocean in the Margaret River region.
Patrick finished at Taree in NSW, where
he started his career in interior linings
many years ago.
Michael Chaney (Patron of the Pedalling
Penguin Appeal and President of the
Business Council of Australia) sent
Patrick on his way saying that the ride
reflected Patrick’s “great warmth and
generosity of spirit”.
He shared his passion for the cause
with fellow ‘tradies’ who attended these
events and, hopefully, will raise muchneeded funds for ongoing leukaemia
research programs.
Patrick is well known in the area as a
member of the Prevally Penguins ocean
swimming club and he has adopted the
club’s name for his trans-continental
cycling ride.
Those present at the launch
included (left to right) Brett Rice
(State Manager, Boral Plasterboard),
Kim Williamson (Secretary/
Treasurer of Children’s Leukaemia
Research Foundation), Barry House
(WA Member of Parliament), Michael
Chaney (President Business Council
of Australia), and Lloyd Shepherdson
(Managing Director of Margaret River
Direct Plasterboard Supplies).
Boral Plasterboard actively supported
Patrick as he made his way across Australia
with a series of trade night/fund raising
events held at stores in WA, SA and NSW.
New title tells all
To better align its name with its activities, the ACM National Commercial Centre
has changed its name to the ACM Business & Finance Centre (BFC).
The BFC came into existence earlier
this year to centralise ACM’s accounting
and finance functions and to standardise
processes and procedures across all
regions and all business units.
To date it has migrated most of
the accounting and finance activities
for NSW, WA, VIC/TAS and SA. The
transition for Queensland is under way
and will be finalised within the next
few months.
The BFC’s team of 38 people is broadly
divided into two teams:
• Accounting services – common processes,
financial accounting, tax, capital projects,
and reporting & systems – which
performs the financial accounting
functions for ACM’s business units.
• Business accounting – quarries, concrete,
asphalt and transport – which performs the
management accounting functions for each
ACM business unit and works closely with
the regional commercial teams.
The BFC value
proposition is:
ACM National Business & Finance
Centre (BFC) improving ACM’s
performance through the delivery
of business and financial reports
and advice that is accurate, timely
and cost-effective.