Seven days a week, bulk cement tankers power up in the early morning hours to either fill up or pull out of our Maldon Cement Works.
Situated on the south-west outskirts of Sydney near Picton, Maldon is an important hub for the supply of building and construction materials into the metropolitan area.
Part of our integrated supply chain and connected by rail to upstream assets at Marulan and Berrima, the Cement Works grinds clinker to produce powdered cement which is dispatched both in bulk and packaged in a suite of bagged cement products through our modern bagging facility for dispatch daily across Australia. 
Our bagging facility incorporates advanced technology and robotics to assist with the speed and efficiency of supply.
Frank Murnane, Operations Manager at Maldon and a Boral employee for the past 12 years, said the Maldon team were a “pretty tight crew.”
Technology has changed the way work gets done onsite over the years. As this historical photo below from the 1970s shows, 40kg bagged cement products were loaded manually, by hand Nowadays, our employees use forklifts to load 1.44 tonnes of 20kg bags per pallet.
Manufacturing processes have moved with the times as well. The FANUC Robot can feed 4,000 bags per hour into our bagging facility.
Activity at Maldon Cement Works can be overseen by employees in a modern control room where all elements of the operations can be controlled.
The site has evolved since its early days when it began operation in April 1951 as a response to the World War II building and construction boom. Up until 2014, the site hosted three different kilns on site, used to manufacture clinker.
Frank said the 62 employees at the site were energised by the performance of the business over the past 18 months, and the impact the Good to Great strategy was having.
“It’s great to see the performance of the business as a result of having a clear plan and decision-making,” he said. “We’re very proud of our history and the contribution we’re making to building Australia today, for generations to come.”
“They’re a good team here, they work hard and look out for each other’s safety on site.”
Frank Murnane, Operations Manager at Maldon.
