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BORAL CEMENT
Build something great™
Cement manufacturing at
Portland Cement
Portland cement dates from its
discovery by an English mason,
Joseph Aspdin in 1824 who
obtained the patent and gave
the product its name ‘Portland
cement’ because the mortar
colour it produced resembled a
natural building stone obtained
from the Isle of Portland off the
English coast.
Portland cement significantly
improved on earlier cement
developments by preparing a
synthetic mixture of lime and
clay without depending on raw
materials found in nature which
might contain such elements in
desirable proportions.
In 1877 the first rotary kiln was
patented in England. In 1885
Englishman Frederick Ransome
patented the first rotary cement
kiln. Since that time rotary kilns
have developed in size,
capacity, output quality and
operational economy. Now
with modern materials handling
equipment, more efficient
combustion techniques and
computerized processing and
control, kilns are capable of
producing over four thousand
five hundred tonnes of cement
clinker per day.
Berrima
A.C.N. 008 528 523
A.B.N. 62 008 528 523
VICTORIA
1800 673 570
TASMANIA
(03) 6427 0133
PRODUCT SUPPORT:
1800 721 258
www.boral.com.au/cement
BCC_10301_08/12
Berrima
Berrima
Boral Cement Works is situated at
Berrima 150kms south of Sydney
and supplies much of Sydney’s
annual cement requirement - over
one million tonnes per year.
Marulan-Berrima-Maldon
production line
The Berrima cement works
are the longest in Australia. The
130km integrated manufacturing
process begins at Marulan – where
limestone is quarried, then railed to
Berrima where clinker is produced.
The clinker is then transported by
rail to Maldon for cement milling,
where it is bagged and distributed.
Berrima’s plant capacity is
1.4 million tones of clinker per
annum. Twenty five percent of
this output is transported to the
grinding plant at Maldon where it is
converted to cement. The remaining
clinker is ground at Berrima and
dispatched in large quantities to
Canberra, the NSW south coast
and other NSW markets.
The Berrima kilns are equal to
the most modern in the world with
continuous development upgrades
featuring the latest technology
and equipment. Electronic
controls, video display,
computer control systems
and a chemical and physical
testing laboratory (with x-ray
fluorescent spectrometer) have
enabled Berrima to maintain
the high quality of cement
production for which it
is known.
Environmental considerations
are a priority at the Berrima
cement works. Dust collectors
are located at all possible
emission points, water run-off
filters through settling ponds
and noise levels are reduced
by sound-proof enclosures
around noisier equipment.
Tree planting and landscaping
assist the Berrima plant
design to blend with the
natural surroundings.
BORAL CEMENT
Build something great™
Cement manufacturing at
Portland Cement
Portland cement dates from its
discovery by an English mason,
Joseph Aspdin in 1824 who
obtained the patent and gave
the product its name ‘Portland
cement’ because the mortar
colour it produced resembled a
natural building stone obtained
from the Isle of Portland off the
English coast.
Portland cement significantly
improved on earlier cement
developments by preparing a
synthetic mixture of lime and
clay without depending on raw
materials found in nature which
might contain such elements in
desirable proportions.
In 1877 the first rotary kiln was
patented in England. In 1885
Englishman Frederick Ransome
patented the first rotary cement
kiln. Since that time rotary kilns
have developed in size,
capacity, output quality and
operational economy. Now
with modern materials handling
equipment, more efficient
combustion techniques and
computerized processing and
control, kilns are capable of
producing over four thousand
five hundred tonnes of cement
clinker per day.
Berrima
A.C.N. 008 528 523
A.B.N. 62 008 528 523
VICTORIA
1800 673 570
TASMANIA
(03) 6427 0133
PRODUCT SUPPORT:
1800 721 258
www.boral.com.au/cement
BCC_10301_08/12
Berrima
Berrima
Boral Cement Works is situated at
Berrima 150kms south of Sydney
and supplies much of Sydney’s
annual cement requirement - over
one million tonnes per year.
Marulan-Berrima-Maldon
production line
The Berrima cement works
are the longest in Australia. The
130km integrated manufacturing
process begins at Marulan – where
limestone is quarried, then railed to
Berrima where clinker is produced.
The clinker is then transported by
rail to Maldon for cement milling,
where it is bagged and distributed.
Berrima’s plant capacity is
1.4 million tones of clinker per
annum. Twenty five percent of
this output is transported to the
grinding plant at Maldon where it is
converted to cement. The remaining
clinker is ground at Berrima and
dispatched in large quantities to
Canberra, the NSW south coast
and other NSW markets.
The Berrima kilns are equal to
the most modern in the world with
continuous development upgrades
featuring the latest technology
and equipment. Electronic
controls, video display,
computer control systems
and a chemical and physical
testing laboratory (with x-ray
fluorescent spectrometer) have
enabled Berrima to maintain
the high quality of cement
production for which it
is known.
Environmental considerations
are a priority at the Berrima
cement works. Dust collectors
are located at all possible
emission points, water run-off
filters through settling ponds
and noise levels are reduced
by sound-proof enclosures
around noisier equipment.
Tree planting and landscaping
assist the Berrima plant
design to blend with the
natural surroundings.
BORAL CEMENT
Build something great™
Cement manufacturing at
Portland Cement
Portland cement dates from its
discovery by an English mason,
Joseph Aspdin in 1824 who
obtained the patent and gave
the product its name ‘Portland
cement’ because the mortar
colour it produced resembled a
natural building stone obtained
from the Isle of Portland off the
English coast.
Portland cement significantly
improved on earlier cement
developments by preparing a
synthetic mixture of lime and
clay without depending on raw
materials found in nature which
might contain such elements in
desirable proportions.
In 1877 the first rotary kiln was
patented in England. In 1885
Englishman Frederick Ransome
patented the first rotary cement
kiln. Since that time rotary kilns
have developed in size,
capacity, output quality and
operational economy. Now
with modern materials handling
equipment, more efficient
combustion techniques and
computerized processing and
control, kilns are capable of
producing over four thousand
five hundred tonnes of cement
clinker per day.
Berrima
A.C.N. 008 528 523
A.B.N. 62 008 528 523
VICTORIA
1800 673 570
TASMANIA
(03) 6427 0133
PRODUCT SUPPORT:
1800 721 258
www.boral.com.au/cement
BCC_10301_08/12
Berrima
Berrima
Boral Cement Works is situated at
Berrima 150kms south of Sydney
and supplies much of Sydney’s
annual cement requirement - over
one million tonnes per year.
Marulan-Berrima-Maldon
production line
The Berrima cement works
are the longest in Australia. The
130km integrated manufacturing
process begins at Marulan – where
limestone is quarried, then railed to
Berrima where clinker is produced.
The clinker is then transported by
rail to Maldon for cement milling,
where it is bagged and distributed.
Berrima’s plant capacity is
1.4 million tones of clinker per
annum. Twenty five percent of
this output is transported to the
grinding plant at Maldon where it is
converted to cement. The remaining
clinker is ground at Berrima and
dispatched in large quantities to
Canberra, the NSW south coast
and other NSW markets.
The Berrima kilns are equal to
the most modern in the world with
continuous development upgrades
featuring the latest technology
and equipment. Electronic
controls, video display,
computer control systems
and a chemical and physical
testing laboratory (with x-ray
fluorescent spectrometer) have
enabled Berrima to maintain
the high quality of cement
production for which it
is known.
Environmental considerations
are a priority at the Berrima
cement works. Dust collectors
are located at all possible
emission points, water run-off
filters through settling ponds
and noise levels are reduced
by sound-proof enclosures
around noisier equipment.
Tree planting and landscaping
assist the Berrima plant
design to blend with the
natural surroundings.
Cement manufacturing at
Berrima
The Marulan-Berrima-Maldon Production Line 2012
The New Berrima works are the longest works in Australia - they begin their 130km integrated manufacturing process at Marulan - when limestone is
railed from there to New Berrima, where clinker is produced. It is then transported to Maldon for cement milling, where it is bagged then distributed.
How Portland Cement
is made at Berrima
ground with a small amount of
gypsum in a ball mill to produce
the finished cement powder.
Limestone is the primary raw
material in cement with a high level
1. The dry ground meal is stored
in a large blending silo.
2.
of calcium carbonate. Chalk or
coral can also be used. At Berrima
limestone is used which comes
Marulan (70kms south of Berrima).
quarried on the cement works site.
LOCAL
IRON ORE
SLAG DRYER
LOCAL
SAND
CLINKER
STORAGE SILO
COAL BLENDING
& STORAGE
BLAST FURNACE
SLAG STOCKPILE
RATOR
Y & CEN
TRAL
CONTR
OL RO
OM
TO
PREHEATER PREHEATER
TOWER No1 TOWER N02 RAWMEAL
BLENDING SILO
SS
CE
RO
Y P KILN
DR
STACK
E
AT
R
LE
O
CO
GR
DRY SLAG
STORAGE
GE
RA
STO G
KER ILDIN
IN
U
B
CL
COAL MILL
LABO
MA
GYPSUM
LDO
N
LS
CEMENT MIL
ATIC
OST OR
CTR ECT
ELE COLL
T
S
U
D
ORAGE
MENT ST
BULK CE
CEMENT MIL
LS
RAW MEAL
No.6 RAW MILL
HAUST
KILN EX
GASES
SES
GA K)
C
STE
WA O STA
(T
BUL
MENT ST
ORAGE
BAG
GED
SILOS
NEWCASTLE
B
SYDNEY
MALDON
BERRIMA
MARULAN
NT
EME
C
ULK
ENT
EM
KC
No.7 RAW MILL
HAUST
KILN EX ES
GAS
SILOS
KC
GYPSUM
BULK CE
AL
to the cement works. Shale is
SHALE
CRUSHER
ST N
DU TUR
RE
before being transported by rail
SHALE
ME
won by blasting, then crushed
LIMESTONE
hot meal enters the rotating
kiln and travels toward the
fusion zone, when it is heated
to 1450ºC.
W
RA
Limestone is a high grade stone
3.
he raw meal falls by
T
gravity through each
interconnected cyclone
during which the hot gases
from the kiln pass through the
cyclones and heat the raw
meal to approx. 1000ºC.
4. From the bottom cyclone the
LOCAL
SHALE QUARRY
ST N
DU TUR
RE
from Boral’s limestone quarry at
rom the silo it is conveyed
F
by elevator to the top of the
pre-heater tower with four
cyclone stages.
Berrima Colliery
IME
KE
R
BU ST
ILD OR
IN AG
G E
or ‘clinker’ is cooled and then
Berrima employs a dry process
for cement manufacturing in which
raw materials are ground to a fine
powder in a vertical raw mill, then;
LN
LIME KI
GED
L
A
CL
IN
in a rotary kiln. The fused material
RIM
E
ROTARY
BAG
CONDITIONING
TOWER
fused at a very high temperature
BER
CONDITIONING
TOWER
ground to a fine powder and
TO
Marulan Limestone Quarry
WAST
E
(TO S GASES
TACK
)
sand are blended together,
SECONDARY
CRUSHER
RAW MATERIALS
ADDITIVE BUILDING
shale, iron ore and occasionally
K LIM
PRIMARY
CRUSHER
The small quantity of iron
ore required to make cement
is obtained from outside resources.
Sand is supplied locally when
required for fine correction of
the mix.
ERIA
AND L BLEND
IN
STO
RAG G
E
measured quantities of limestone,
BUL
MAT
process in which carefully
LIMESTONE
PRIMARY DRILL
& BLASTING
RAW
Cement making is a simple
TROMMEL SCREEN
BUL
Berrima Clinker and Cement Works
MELBOURNE
GEELONG
EME
NT &
BUL
K CE
MEN
SLA
G
CEM
ENT
Maldon Cement Works
T
5. As the hot clinker leaves the
kiln it passes through a grate
cooler where it is cooled to
120ºC and is then conveyed
to storage.
The origin of cement dates
back to man’s earliest beginnings
when builders’ sought a material
to bind stones together to build
shelter and later homes. In the
early Egyptian era, cement
material was produced by burning
gypsum. The early Greeks and
Romans used lime and limebearing cement for buildings,
roads, bridges and aqueducts.
The word ‘cement’ was
derived from the early Roman
‘Caementum’, a rough, unhewn
stone or chips of marble from
which a kind of ‘mortar’ was
made. The term ‘Concrete’
came from ‘Concretus’- meaning
‘growing together’. The Romans
used cement to make loose
stones ‘grow together’ into a
single rock-like mass to build
concrete structures such as
the Roman baths (27BC), the
Colosseum and the Basilica
of Constantine. The ruins still
survive today.
It is believed the Romans also
developed the first known
hydraulic cement – cement
capable of hardening under
water. Created by mixing slaked
lime with a volcanic rock or sand
called ‘Pozzolana’, the cement
was named after the place where
it was first found - Possuoli near
Mount Vesuvius and is commonly
known as Pozzolanic cement.
Cement manufacturing at
Berrima
The Marulan-Berrima-Maldon Production Line 2012
The New Berrima works are the longest works in Australia - they begin their 130km integrated manufacturing process at Marulan - when limestone is
railed from there to New Berrima, where clinker is produced. It is then transported to Maldon for cement milling, where it is bagged then distributed.
How Portland Cement
is made at Berrima
ground with a small amount of
gypsum in a ball mill to produce
the finished cement powder.
Limestone is the primary raw
material in cement with a high level
1. The dry ground meal is stored
in a large blending silo.
2.
of calcium carbonate. Chalk or
coral can also be used. At Berrima
limestone is used which comes
Marulan (70kms south of Berrima).
quarried on the cement works site.
LOCAL
IRON ORE
SLAG DRYER
LOCAL
SAND
CLINKER
STORAGE SILO
COAL BLENDING
& STORAGE
BLAST FURNACE
SLAG STOCKPILE
RATOR
Y & CEN
TRAL
CONTR
OL RO
OM
TO
PREHEATER PREHEATER
TOWER No1 TOWER N02 RAWMEAL
BLENDING SILO
SS
CE
RO
Y P KILN
DR
STACK
E
AT
R
LE
O
CO
GR
DRY SLAG
STORAGE
GE
RA
STO G
KER ILDIN
IN
U
B
CL
COAL MILL
LABO
MA
GYPSUM
LDO
N
LS
CEMENT MIL
ATIC
OST OR
CTR ECT
ELE COLL
T
S
U
D
ORAGE
MENT ST
BULK CE
CEMENT MIL
LS
RAW MEAL
No.6 RAW MILL
HAUST
KILN EX
GASES
SES
GA K)
C
STE
WA O STA
(T
BUL
MENT ST
ORAGE
BAG
GED
SILOS
NEWCASTLE
B
SYDNEY
MALDON
BERRIMA
MARULAN
NT
EME
C
ULK
ENT
EM
KC
No.7 RAW MILL
HAUST
KILN EX ES
GAS
SILOS
KC
GYPSUM
BULK CE
AL
to the cement works. Shale is
SHALE
CRUSHER
ST N
DU TUR
RE
before being transported by rail
SHALE
ME
won by blasting, then crushed
LIMESTONE
hot meal enters the rotating
kiln and travels toward the
fusion zone, when it is heated
to 1450ºC.
W
RA
Limestone is a high grade stone
3.
he raw meal falls by
T
gravity through each
interconnected cyclone
during which the hot gases
from the kiln pass through the
cyclones and heat the raw
meal to approx. 1000ºC.
4. From the bottom cyclone the
LOCAL
SHALE QUARRY
ST N
DU TUR
RE
from Boral’s limestone quarry at
rom the silo it is conveyed
F
by elevator to the top of the
pre-heater tower with four
cyclone stages.
Berrima Colliery
IME
KE
R
BU ST
ILD OR
IN AG
G E
or ‘clinker’ is cooled and then
Berrima employs a dry process
for cement manufacturing in which
raw materials are ground to a fine
powder in a vertical raw mill, then;
LN
LIME KI
GED
L
A
CL
IN
in a rotary kiln. The fused material
RIM
E
ROTARY
BAG
CONDITIONING
TOWER
fused at a very high temperature
BER
CONDITIONING
TOWER
ground to a fine powder and
TO
Marulan Limestone Quarry
WAST
E
(TO S GASES
TACK
)
sand are blended together,
SECONDARY
CRUSHER
RAW MATERIALS
ADDITIVE BUILDING
shale, iron ore and occasionally
K LIM
PRIMARY
CRUSHER
The small quantity of iron
ore required to make cement
is obtained from outside resources.
Sand is supplied locally when
required for fine correction of
the mix.
ERIA
AND L BLEND
IN
STO
RAG G
E
measured quantities of limestone,
BUL
MAT
process in which carefully
LIMESTONE
PRIMARY DRILL
& BLASTING
RAW
Cement making is a simple
TROMMEL SCREEN
BUL
Berrima Clinker and Cement Works
MELBOURNE
GEELONG
EME
NT &
BUL
K CE
MEN
SLA
G
CEM
ENT
Maldon Cement Works
T
5. As the hot clinker leaves the
kiln it passes through a grate
cooler where it is cooled to
120ºC and is then conveyed
to storage.
The origin of cement dates
back to man’s earliest beginnings
when builders’ sought a material
to bind stones together to build
shelter and later homes. In the
early Egyptian era, cement
material was produced by burning
gypsum. The early Greeks and
Romans used lime and limebearing cement for buildings,
roads, bridges and aqueducts.
The word ‘cement’ was
derived from the early Roman
‘Caementum’, a rough, unhewn
stone or chips of marble from
which a kind of ‘mortar’ was
made. The term ‘Concrete’
came from ‘Concretus’- meaning
‘growing together’. The Romans
used cement to make loose
stones ‘grow together’ into a
single rock-like mass to build
concrete structures such as
the Roman baths (27BC), the
Colosseum and the Basilica
of Constantine. The ruins still
survive today.
It is believed the Romans also
developed the first known
hydraulic cement – cement
capable of hardening under
water. Created by mixing slaked
lime with a volcanic rock or sand
called ‘Pozzolana’, the cement
was named after the place where
it was first found - Possuoli near
Mount Vesuvius and is commonly
known as Pozzolanic cement.
Cement manufacturing at
Berrima
The Marulan-Berrima-Maldon Production Line 2012
The New Berrima works are the longest works in Australia - they begin their 130km integrated manufacturing process at Marulan - when limestone is
railed from there to New Berrima, where clinker is produced. It is then transported to Maldon for cement milling, where it is bagged then distributed.
How Portland Cement
is made at Berrima
ground with a small amount of
gypsum in a ball mill to produce
the finished cement powder.
Limestone is the primary raw
material in cement with a high level
1. The dry ground meal is stored
in a large blending silo.
2.
of calcium carbonate. Chalk or
coral can also be used. At Berrima
limestone is used which comes
Marulan (70kms south of Berrima).
quarried on the cement works site.
LOCAL
IRON ORE
SLAG DRYER
LOCAL
SAND
CLINKER
STORAGE SILO
COAL BLENDING
& STORAGE
BLAST FURNACE
SLAG STOCKPILE
RATOR
Y & CEN
TRAL
CONTR
OL RO
OM
TO
PREHEATER PREHEATER
TOWER No1 TOWER N02 RAWMEAL
BLENDING SILO
SS
CE
RO
Y P KILN
DR
STACK
E
AT
R
LE
O
CO
GR
DRY SLAG
STORAGE
GE
RA
STO G
KER ILDIN
IN
U
B
CL
COAL MILL
LABO
MA
GYPSUM
LDO
N
LS
CEMENT MIL
ATIC
OST OR
CTR ECT
ELE COLL
T
S
U
D
ORAGE
MENT ST
BULK CE
CEMENT MIL
LS
RAW MEAL
No.6 RAW MILL
HAUST
KILN EX
GASES
SES
GA K)
C
STE
WA O STA
(T
BUL
MENT ST
ORAGE
BAG
GED
SILOS
NEWCASTLE
B
SYDNEY
MALDON
BERRIMA
MARULAN
NT
EME
C
ULK
ENT
EM
KC
No.7 RAW MILL
HAUST
KILN EX ES
GAS
SILOS
KC
GYPSUM
BULK CE
AL
to the cement works. Shale is
SHALE
CRUSHER
ST N
DU TUR
RE
before being transported by rail
SHALE
ME
won by blasting, then crushed
LIMESTONE
hot meal enters the rotating
kiln and travels toward the
fusion zone, when it is heated
to 1450ºC.
W
RA
Limestone is a high grade stone
3.
he raw meal falls by
T
gravity through each
interconnected cyclone
during which the hot gases
from the kiln pass through the
cyclones and heat the raw
meal to approx. 1000ºC.
4. From the bottom cyclone the
LOCAL
SHALE QUARRY
ST N
DU TUR
RE
from Boral’s limestone quarry at
rom the silo it is conveyed
F
by elevator to the top of the
pre-heater tower with four
cyclone stages.
Berrima Colliery
IME
KE
R
BU ST
ILD OR
IN AG
G E
or ‘clinker’ is cooled and then
Berrima employs a dry process
for cement manufacturing in which
raw materials are ground to a fine
powder in a vertical raw mill, then;
LN
LIME KI
GED
L
A
CL
IN
in a rotary kiln. The fused material
RIM
E
ROTARY
BAG
CONDITIONING
TOWER
fused at a very high temperature
BER
CONDITIONING
TOWER
ground to a fine powder and
TO
Marulan Limestone Quarry
WAST
E
(TO S GASES
TACK
)
sand are blended together,
SECONDARY
CRUSHER
RAW MATERIALS
ADDITIVE BUILDING
shale, iron ore and occasionally
K LIM
PRIMARY
CRUSHER
The small quantity of iron
ore required to make cement
is obtained from outside resources.
Sand is supplied locally when
required for fine correction of
the mix.
ERIA
AND L BLEND
IN
STO
RAG G
E
measured quantities of limestone,
BUL
MAT
process in which carefully
LIMESTONE
PRIMARY DRILL
& BLASTING
RAW
Cement making is a simple
TROMMEL SCREEN
BUL
Berrima Clinker and Cement Works
MELBOURNE
GEELONG
EME
NT &
BUL
K CE
MEN
SLA
G
CEM
ENT
Maldon Cement Works
T
5. As the hot clinker leaves the
kiln it passes through a grate
cooler where it is cooled to
120ºC and is then conveyed
to storage.
The origin of cement dates
back to man’s earliest beginnings
when builders’ sought a material
to bind stones together to build
shelter and later homes. In the
early Egyptian era, cement
material was produced by burning
gypsum. The early Greeks and
Romans used lime and limebearing cement for buildings,
roads, bridges and aqueducts.
The word ‘cement’ was
derived from the early Roman
‘Caementum’, a rough, unhewn
stone or chips of marble from
which a kind of ‘mortar’ was
made. The term ‘Concrete’
came from ‘Concretus’- meaning
‘growing together’. The Romans
used cement to make loose
stones ‘grow together’ into a
single rock-like mass to build
concrete structures such as
the Roman baths (27BC), the
Colosseum and the Basilica
of Constantine. The ruins still
survive today.
It is believed the Romans also
developed the first known
hydraulic cement – cement
capable of hardening under
water. Created by mixing slaked
lime with a volcanic rock or sand
called ‘Pozzolana’, the cement
was named after the place where
it was first found - Possuoli near
Mount Vesuvius and is commonly
known as Pozzolanic cement.
BORAL CEMENT
Build something great™
Cement manufacturing at
Portland Cement
Portland cement dates from its
discovery by an English mason,
Joseph Aspdin in 1824 who
obtained the patent and gave
the product its name ‘Portland
cement’ because the mortar
colour it produced resembled a
natural building stone obtained
from the Isle of Portland off the
English coast.
Portland cement significantly
improved on earlier cement
developments by preparing a
synthetic mixture of lime and
clay without depending on raw
materials found in nature which
might contain such elements in
desirable proportions.
In 1877 the first rotary kiln was
patented in England. In 1885
Englishman Frederick Ransome
patented the first rotary cement
kiln. Since that time rotary kilns
have developed in size,
capacity, output quality and
operational economy. Now
with modern materials handling
equipment, more efficient
combustion techniques and
computerized processing and
control, kilns are capable of
producing over four thousand
five hundred tonnes of cement
clinker per day.
Berrima
A.C.N. 008 528 523
A.B.N. 62 008 528 523
VICTORIA
1800 673 570
TASMANIA
(03) 6427 0133
PRODUCT SUPPORT:
1800 721 258
www.boral.com.au/cement
BCC_10301_08/12
Berrima
Berrima
Boral Cement Works is situated at
Berrima 150kms south of Sydney
and supplies much of Sydney’s
annual cement requirement - over
one million tonnes per year.
Marulan-Berrima-Maldon
production line
The Berrima cement works
are the longest in Australia. The
130km integrated manufacturing
process begins at Marulan – where
limestone is quarried, then railed to
Berrima where clinker is produced.
The clinker is then transported by
rail to Maldon for cement milling,
where it is bagged and distributed.
Berrima’s plant capacity is
1.4 million tones of clinker per
annum. Twenty five percent of
this output is transported to the
grinding plant at Maldon where it is
converted to cement. The remaining
clinker is ground at Berrima and
dispatched in large quantities to
Canberra, the NSW south coast
and other NSW markets.
The Berrima kilns are equal to
the most modern in the world with
continuous development upgrades
featuring the latest technology
and equipment. Electronic
controls, video display,
computer control systems
and a chemical and physical
testing laboratory (with x-ray
fluorescent spectrometer) have
enabled Berrima to maintain
the high quality of cement
production for which it
is known.
Environmental considerations
are a priority at the Berrima
cement works. Dust collectors
are located at all possible
emission points, water run-off
filters through settling ponds
and noise levels are reduced
by sound-proof enclosures
around noisier equipment.
Tree planting and landscaping
assist the Berrima plant
design to blend with the
natural surroundings.