BORAL

NEWS APR 2016

TOOWOOMBA PROJECT TAKES TOP HONOURS

HOW SUSTAINABILITY SCHEMES ARE CUTTING COSTS A DAY IN THE LIFE OF USG BORAL IN NEW ZEALAND

CELEBRATING 70 YEARS The Boral story

LONG-SERVING EMPLOYEES SHARE THEIR INSIGHTS FROM THE CEO

A rich history and an exciting future It’s a privilege to be leading Boral as we celebrate 70 years since the incorporation of Bitumen and Oil Refineries Australia Limited (BORAL). Boral has a rich and fascinating history, which can be traced back to our humble beginnings in Matraville in Inside Sydney. In seven decades of growth and change, many stories about Boral in Australia, America, Asia FRONT COVER IMAGE: Sprayer unit at work on a section and Europe have emerged. of highway between Sydney and Newcastle, circa 1965 There are success stories and war stories. There are Boral News is published by stories about striving to be the best at what we do and Boral Limited ABN 13 008 421 761. about responding to changing conditions. There are If you have an item of news stories about our people taking risks and backing their for future issues, please contact: decisions in an effort to see our future even brighter Linda Assatoury Group Communications than the past. All of us who work at Boral have helped & Investor Relations Manager to create the stories that define the company’s history Boral® is a registered trademark of and will shape its future. Boral Limited or one of its subsidiaries. © 2016 Boral Ltd. All rights reserved. Just over three years ago I articulated my vision to © 2016 USG Boral. All rights reserved. 06 transform Boral, and the Fix, Execute, Transform framework was established to help provide structure for the journey. 18 With significant progress now made to fix the things that were holding us back and to improve the way we do things, it’s now time to look more deeply at the long-term strategy for Boral to ensure it can truly transform for performance excellence and sustainable growth. We’ve made progress on this, with work that 12 includes delivering transformational technology to our USG Boral joint venture and our investments in product Features Regulars innovation. But there is still more to do. 02 NEWS To have input into the long-term vision for Boral, we 05 20 Boral Asphalt wins awards Sustainability initiatives 03 PRODUCTS assembled a team of 21 young leaders from across the tackling the Toowoomba Investments in how we use our 04 PEOPLE company. The team is intended to represent Boral’s Range by-products 10 PROFILE leaders of 2030, with a diversity of experience, gender, Recognition for Boral’s work on Bob Bornstein, Technical Services ethnicity, culture and geography. It is hoped that the Toowoomba Range project Manager, Construction Materials & 22 Cement plus some of our longest- A day in the life of a metal the strength and diversity of the team will provide serving employees greater insights into the Boral of the future than 06 products plant Celebrating Boral’s Spend a day at USG Boral’s 18 ZERO HARM TODAY would otherwise be achieved by relying on today’s 70 years metal products plant in Auckland, 24 IN THE COMMUNITY leaders alone. The Boral story over New Zealand seven decades I hope you enjoy reading highlights of our colourful history in this edition of Boral News. 12 Boral today Use the free viewa A snapshot of who Boral is today app and scan the front cover to watch a journey through Boral’s history. Mike Kane See back cover for CEO & Managing Director more information. BORAL NEWS | APR 2016 | 1

NEWS PRODUCTS

USG Boral launches new, DID YOU TAKE NOTE KNOW? Five interesting projects across Boral unified product packaging

From February 2016 USG Boral has been launching new packaging designs across Australia, China and Korea, with other countries due to follow later in the year and in 2017. The new packaging will incorporate common design elements to provide a cohesive look across USG Boral’s extensive network, which includes 14 product categories, 23 product types and thousands of stock keeping units (SKUs) across THE YEAR THE ACRONYM 12 geographic markets! ‘BORAL’ WAS OFFICIALLY University of Western Boral Roofing’s Saxony Asphalt, spray seal, USG Boral supplied More than 6,660m3 ADOPTED AS THE “Often we think of packaging as only there to COMPANY NAME Sydney’s new Kingswood Slate 900 concrete tiles concrete and crushed products, including of Boral concrete protect products as they travel from our plants to our campus library façade in Mission Red feature rock road base supplied plasterboard, to the used in ‘The James’ customer sites,” said USG Boral Marketing Director, combines four types of on a new 172-room to Gateway WA, International Financial multi-residential Jeremy Verstraete. “But with clear and cohesive red-toned PGH Bricks village-style hotel in Western Australia Centre Jakarta in development in design, it can help unify and reinforce our brands Banff, Canada Indonesia Teneriffe, Queensland throughout our supply chain, in trade stores and, ultimately, on job sites in the daily view of our customers, builders and contractors.”

Boral secures “...with clear and cohesive New Boral Innovation NorthConnex Factory unveiled design, it can help unify and project reinforce our brands throughout The ribbon was cut at the new 27,000 square foot Boral our supply chain” THE YEAR BORAL’S Innovation Factory in San Antonio, Texas, in February. The Concrete NSW team GREEN AND GOLD LOGO Created in 2012, the Boral Innovation Factory analyses has successfully secured Jeremy Verstraete, Marketing Director, USG Boral WAS ADOPTED market trends and future building and construction the supply contract for requirements, then identifies emerging technologies to 500,000 cubic metres develop solutions that fill the service gaps. of concrete to the “The establishment of the Innovation Factory has set NorthConnex motorway us on a trajectory to introduce new products and in western Sydney. The processes that can solve customers’ unmet needs in $3 billion project comprises the marketplace, enabling Boral to be synonymous with nine kilometres of tunnels innovation,” said Joel Charlton, Executive General and will ease Sydney’s Manager, Innovation and Vice President of the traffic congestion, Al Borm, Russell Hill and Joel Charlton cut the ribbon at the Intellectual Property Portfolio for Boral. bypassing 21 sets of traffic Boral Innovation Factory lights. It is expected to be completed in mid-2019. www.pghbricks.com.au

On the move! Somerton cement supply chain hits the road New Bevel Siding Introducing: Boral has historically distributed ® cement from the Waurn Ponds in the USA Boral Thin Brick manufacturing plant to the www.usgboral.com ® Somerton depot by rail using The Bevel profile is the newest addition Boral Bricks in the USA has introduced ® ® Pacific National, one of Australia’s New and improved to the Boral TruExterior Siding product Boral Thin Brick Natural Clay Veneer for largest rail freight companies. But line – the first man-made siding profiles to interior and exterior cladding applications. ® in December 2015, the final wagon websites genuinely replicate the natural look of smooth Launched in January 2016, Boral Thin Brick The last train wagons being loaded at architectural wood siding while resisting offers a lightweight and easy-to-install of cement powder was loaded at Waurn Ponds cement plant, Victoria Staff based at Greystanes House division. “We’re giving our people Waurn Ponds, headed for With the integration between Boral and the moisture-related issues that commonly solution that has the authentic look of in Prospect, New South Wales, will plenty of time to prepare for the Somerton for the last time. Somerton depot operator CSR’s east coast bricks operations on plague wood. full-dimensional clay brick. be on the move in 2017 as the move and to make the transition as With improvements in Garry Culpin was on hand to track, the new and improved PGH Bricks Launched in November 2015, the Bevel Available in 10 colours and several ® lease on the office space comes easy as possible.” technology, in combination with unload the first wagons of & Pavers website was launched in March. profile of Boral TruExterior Siding recreates the popular textures, each lightweight flat and to an end. About 450 Boral staff, primarily Boral Cement’s increased powder cement over 27 years ago, and Check it out at www.pghbricks.com.au look and character of traditional clapboard or corner piece is manufactured using natural “While this is a good move for in Construction Materials & fleet capacity – which utilises helped unload the very last USG Boral also launched a refreshed bevel lap siding associated with cedar clay. The new product line is being launched the business, it’s a big change,” Cement, Shared Business Services specialised tankers on a 24-hour, wagon in December. Australian website in April, with redesigned and redwood. It has true taper and shadow across the USA in a collaborative effort by ® said Joe Goss, Divisional and Information & Communication 7-day-a-week schedule – delivering user navigation and a customisable line characteristics that are not typically both the Boral Bricks and Cultured Stone ® Managing Director of the Technology, will commence the cement to the Somerton depot is experience for architects/designers, found in fibre cement or wood composite by Boral sales teams. Construction Materials & Cement move in mid-2017. now more efficient by road than rail. builders/installers and homeowners. siding products. See www.usgboral.com

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PEOPLE FEATURE

Transforming Boral

Twenty-one young leaders from across Boral’s and USG Boral’s global operations were invited to form Boral’s Transformation Strategy Task Group (TSTG) to help set the company’s long-term strategy. In Sydney over two days in January, the group considered best practice in developing business strategy and heard from inspirational speakers, including a futurist from the CSIRO who provided thought-provoking ideas. BORAL ASPHALT By the end of the sessions, the group had agreed on key issues they will consider over the coming months in order to define what Boral could look like in the decade 2020-2030. The WINS AWARDS “The team is intended to represent Boral’s leaders of recommendations of the TSTG will be presented 2030, with a diversity of experience, gender, ethnicity, to Boral’s Executive Committee and Board culture and geography” towards the end of 2016. TACKLING THE Mike Kane, CEO & Managing Director TOOWOOMBA My Learning Rob McGuire honoured Space live for asphalt industry RANGE at 20 sites leadership

Boral’s learning Boral Asphalt Queensland’s General Manager, management system, My Rob McGuire was awarded for Outstanding Industry Boral Asphalt’s work on the $68 million Toowoomba Learning Space, has gone Leadership at the Australian Asphalt Pavement Range remediation project required technical expertise, live at 20 operational sites Association National Industry Awards in across Asphalt NSW/ACT September 2015. quick thinking and effective solutions. and Quarries WA/NT, and “This is an outstanding result for our Boral the rollout is continuing team,” Rob said. “We’re all very proud of this across the company. The formal recognition of our industry leadership oral’s hard work was recognised ran at a 10 to 14 per cent gradient. This not system allows Australian and commitment to adding superior value to with the Outstanding Project Award only gave the project team an unfavourable operations to check our major project customers.” at the 2015 Australian Asphalt incline to work on, but it increased the employee training records Pavement Association (AAPA) potential for runaway equipment and left little and qualifications, improving B Queensland Industry Awards, as well as the margin for error. Boral’s regulatory and safety Karen Moses 2015 AAPA National Industry Awards. The team implemented safety compliance efforts in another The following is an edited extract, and precautionary measures through step towards Zero Harm. joins the Board reproduced with permission, from an article extended exclusion zones, detailed toolbox “It’s a great tool to ensure published in Roads & Civil Works Magazine discussions, a siren evacuation policy, our people are trained and On 1 March 2016 Karen Energy in 1994 when it competent to perform their Moses joined the Board of was Boral Energy – before in Dec/Jan 2016. clear on-site communication and a Parked roles safely,” said Phillip Boral as a Non-executive the demerger of Boral’s The Toowoomba Range section of Vehicle Procedure, in which stationary Harris, General Manager for Director, following the building and construction the Warrego Highway was one of the roads vehicles had their wheels turned towards Boral Quarries WA, which announcement of her materials business and its impacted by the devastating floods that the embankment. now has 1,600 training appointment in November energy business in 2000. engulfed parts of Queensland in late The majority of asphalt work was records for 52 employees, 2015. In 2016 Karen will Prior to that, she held roles 2010 and early 2011, requiring major undertaken during the night, helping to cater Greater consideration was necessary including contractors, on be retiring as Executive at Exxon and BP. realignment and safety upgrade work. for the 23,000 vehicles that traverse the during the lay. Consequently, the team Director, Finance & Karen is a Director of the system. Rob McGuire, General Manager of Warrego Highway daily, 21 per cent of which introduced a fourth steel drum roller for the Strategy at Origin Energy. SAS Trustee Corporation, Boral Asphalt in Queensland, explains that are heavy vehicles. night works and made adjustments to the She has more than Sydney Dance Company 30 years’ experience in and Sydney Symphony the project had some unique challenges from “It was also particularly challenging paving speed to compensate for the “It’s a great tool the energy industry in Orchestra. She is a the outset, after Boral had been selected as because of the fog, temperatures, visibility difficult surface. to ensure our Australia and overseas member of Boral’s Audit the project’s asphalt subcontractors. during the night works and the terrain too,” Looking back on the project, Rob across a number of senior & Risk Committee and He says that the works included the adds Rob. reflects that it was a very technical people are executive roles. Health, Safety & realignment of a 1.2-kilometre section of Due to the elevation of the project in undertaking. He says to receive the AAPA trained and Karen started at Origin Environment Committee. the downhill eastbound carriageway with the Toowoomba Ranges, mist and fog were National Award for Outstanding Project was flatter grades and improved curves, as well recurring elements. The terrain restricted the great recognition for the regional Boral team, competent to as an upgrade on 600 metres of the uphill number of locations suitable for installing particularly as it was such a large project in perform their Managing your Superannuation is one of the biggest investments most of us will ever own, westbound section. light towers and, in consultation with the which to play a part. so it makes sense to take an interest in it. For Boral’s employees in Australia Rob says the site alone proved the Seymour Whyte project management team, roles safely” who are members of Plum Super, there is now an easier way to stay informed superannuation first major hurdle as it had very steep track-mounted mining lights were equipped Phillip Harris, General about your superannuation and explore how your savings are tracking. Manager, Boral Quarries WA Call 1300 55 7586 or go to plum.com.au embankments and barriers. The road itself on machinery to aid the Boral team.

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Matraville refinery, 1960

In 1939, with the winds of war With part-owner Caltex By 1954 Boral had entered Decisive move blowing in from Europe, a – which supplied the crude In the years that the gas market, building a plant 52-year-old entrepreneur by the oil from overseas – the first to convert the by-product of A decade later Boral made a more followed, Boral would decisive move into the quarries name of David Craig led a Australian-owned bitumen and display resourcefulness bitumen manufacturing consortium of business people oil refinery was officially opened into LPG. business with the acquisition of the and ingenuity as it seeking approval to manufacture in March 1947 at Matraville on The company grew and two largest Melbourne-based quarry bitumen from imported crude oil Sydney’s Botany Bay. It would adapted and developed diversified, making significant operators: Albion and Reid Quarries. CELEBRATING In the late 1960s the discovery in Sydney. The application was take another two years before new product technology acquisitions in energy, building rejected in 1940 by Australia’s manufacturing of bitumen and and looked beyond products and construction of crude oil in Australia dramatically Advisory Committee on heavy oils commenced at the Australia to expand in materials, some of which changed the oil refining competitive Capital Issues. Matraville refinery. new markets. were seen at the time as landscape. Boral exited the oil B O R A L’S This did not deter Craig or being daring. industry and started to expand his backers, who persisted for through acquisitions, entering the seven years to gain approval. building products industry in 1969 Persistence paid off. through the acquisition of 60 per In February 1946, the Boral logos through the years cent of Warringah Brick and Pipe 70 YEARS official prospectus was released Works in Sydney and Brittain Bricks to the public and a few weeks and Pipes in Queensland. later, on 4 March, ‘Bitumen and In 1976, Boral acquired the Oil Refineries (Australia) Limited’ Cyclone Company of Australia, was incorporated. which saw it move into fencing The story of Boral is as much about products, rural buildings, hardware, scaffolding and windows. > survival and success as it is about It wasn’t until 1963 that 1946 1963 1976 1998 the acronym ‘Boral’ was persistence – from the very beginning. officially adopted as the company name.

BORAL TIMELINE Late 194Os Early 1968 1979 1982 Boral acquires a road surfacing Sells a half stake in its refinery 1976 Boral acquires Boral acquires 1960s Boral acquires Cyclone Company 1946 company, and manufacturing of interests and a year later 55% interest in California Boral expands further; Blue Metal ‘Bitumen and Oil Refineries of Australia to diversify away from bitumen and heavy oils commences acquires Gas Supply acquires 60% of Warringah Tile Inc. A year later Industries (Australia) Limited’ Australian housing at Matraville Company in 1963 Brick and Pipe Works in Sydney it buys the company Limited incorporated and Brittain Bricks and Pipes in outright Queensland

1965 Early 1970s 1978 Early Boral acquires two The company expands further $55m takeover of 1980s Melbourne-based quarry in production of bricks, steel, Australian Gypsum Further acquisitions in bricks operators concrete and quarrying. Sir Industries is the largest and roof tile companies are The first employees, 1947 1954 Elton Griffin retires in 1973, in Australian corporate made in Australia and the US; replaced by Sir Eric Neal 1947 Boral enters gas market, building a Palletisers, Moorebank, 1974 history at the time acquires Merry Companies plant to convert the by-product of Inc., Augusta, Georgia Matraville oil refinery opens bitumen manufacture into LPG

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A force in construction Creation of a the business was operating 20 plants across eight countries. Midland Brick materials new Boral and This set the foundation The green and gold By far the largest acquisition during this period, Origin Energy for Boral to complete its joint- also celebrates however, was Boral’s purchase in 1982 of Blue venture deal with USG in early It was at that time that the now familiar green- Just before the joint venture with 70 years Metal Industries (BMI), a company of similar size 2014, under Mike Kane’s and-gold logo was adopted. As the annual report Lafarge was finalised, in February and value as Boral, resulting in the newly leadership, forming USG Boral for that year explained: 2000, Boral demerged its expanded group becoming the leading Growth in Building Products, the leading The Boral Group is made up of many construction and building construction materials business in Australia. plasterboard manufacturer companies operating in a number of diversified Asia materials and its energy Five years later, Boral acquired Blue Circle across Australia, Asia and the extractive, manufacturing and service activities. Tony identified Asia as an business, which became Origin Southern Cement, the owner of the Berrima Middle East with access to some New economic realities During July and August 1976 we have attractive growth market, with Energy. The energy division had Cement works. of the most advanced technology and the spread of technology plasterboard earmarked as an been growing significantly changed the names of many of our companies, in plasterboard and associated has also meant Boral has industry in which Boral could through organic growth and generally by adding the prefix Boral to existing European expansion products. had to become much more names… we have also adopted a new corporate have a competitive advantage acquisition, including the major efficient, a leaner company that Meanwhile by the early 1980s Boral had also symbol and colour scheme… which will be used and build leading market acquisition of Sagasco in 1993, concentrates on what we do acquired a few small UK businesses, in concrete Over the past 70 years on signs, vehicles, stationery and uniforms … positions. Growth was then and was well-positioned to stand best. Forklifts made from army surplus Bren blocks, masonry and flyash. Boral has moved in gun carriers, circa 1950. and through the symbol all Boral companies will pursued in Malaysia and China alone and be valued accordingly. We are very well positioned But it wasn’t until Bruce Kean took over as present a single unified face. with capacity also expanded in Rod Pearse took over and out of markets to grow from our current base – Boral’s third Managing Director in 1987 (following To overcome the shortage of As well as creating a strong sense of Indonesia, where Boral already as Managing Director of the and businesses in in a disciplined way. 27 years under Sir Elton Griffin and then 14 years building materials following belonging among our employees, we believe owned a plasterboard plant. new building products and a continual drive to Few companies manage under Sir Eric Neal) that a push was made to grow World War II, brothers Ric and that this move will have the most significant The financial crisis that hit construction materials company, to survive (and prosper), over Boral’s European presence. deliver strong returns Gerald New began operating a effect on Boral marketing in the future. the Asian region in 1997/98 had steering Boral over the next 10 seven decades, as Boral has The company moved into clay bricks and for shareholders, brickworks at Middle Swan, The next significant takeover after a serious negative impact on years. His experience leading done. But our story is not just roof tiles as well as quarries, with operations in the Western Australia, in 1946. Cyclone was in 1978 when Boral acquired the businesses there, however. Boral’s cyclical business proved at the same time about survival. Netherlands, Germany and Poland, but ultimately Australian Gypsum Industries, an insulation and Lower demand combined critically important. His tenure delivering solutions As David Craig The scarcity of supplies forced these businesses did not meet expectations and plasterboard company. with the excess capacity of started with a severe but short- for our customers, demonstrated back in the the brothers to be creative when Tony Berg, the fourth chief executive, decided to European competitors resulted lived downturn in Australia post and making a positive 1940s, persistence pays off. building their plant. They modified US moves quit Europe in the mid-1990s. By 1999 Boral had in substantial losses for Boral’s the Sydney Olympics, before a gearbox from a war-surplus sold all its European businesses. Asian plasterboard business. contribution to our A year later in 1979, Boral entered the US market, several years of strong demand Sherman tank to become the This was the impetus for communities and acquiring a 55 per cent interest in a loss-making in key markets, and ended plant’s first auger, and the Boral joining forces with French people. concrete roof tile manufacturer California Tile Inc. with the impacts of the worst transmission from a General company Lafarge in June Within a year, the business had been turned downturn the US had seen since Grant tank formed the base of 2000 to create the Lafarge around and the plant was operating at a profit. the Great Depression. their first dragline. Three Bren Boral Gypsum Asia (LBGA) joint Boral would go on to buy the company outright in Following Rod’s retirement, gun carriers were modified to venture, the largest producer Apart from the 1980, in a move that would herald significant when Mark Selway came on become WA’s first commercial of plasterboard in Asia outside transformational moves in the expansion in the US. board as Managing Director, forklift. Japan. Boral’s initial 23 per cent gypsum business, much of the Further tile-making plants were acquired in Boral bought out Lafarge’s half In 1990, Boral purchased investment increased to 50 per past 15 years has been about Texas and California, and Boral entered the US interest in LBGA in 2011 for $598 Midland Brick from Ric New’s cent by 2003 as the company refocusing the business and brick market in 1980 with the acquisition of Merry million and renamed the business family following his death. funded expansion efforts in consolidating the portfolio. Companies in Augusta, Georgia. Boral Gypsum Asia. By this time Thailand, Korea and China.

Cover of the Azon prospectus 1987 1993 1995 2000s 2011 2014 Boral secures its own cement supply Seeking to increase its energy Boral acquires two large Boral and Lafarge combine their Asian Boral completes Boral and USG Corporation form a by acquiring Blue Circle Southern operations, the company floats US brick companies plasterboard assets. Separately, Boral enters new acquisition of Lafarge’s plasterboard and ceilings joint Cement. Acquires Bell Basic non-core manufacturing making Boral the largest growth phase with $900m of investments in new 50% interest in Lafarge venture, USG Boral Building Industries in WA businesses as Azon Limited and brick manufacturer in plants, capacity and acquisitions. A takeover offer Boral Gypsum Asia joint Products, combining operations in launches a bid for Sagasco the USA for Adelaide Brighton in 2003 was thwarted due venture Australia, Asia and the Middle East Holdings to competition concerns by the regulator

1990 2000 2012 2015 Boral acquires 1994 The energy division is 2010 Mike Kane is Tony Berg becomes CEO & Managing Following the GFC, new CEO & Boral and CSR form the Blue Circle Southern Cement Berrima plant, 1932 Midland Brick demerged into newly listed appointed CEO & Director and focuses on building Marketing Director Mark Selway Boral CSR Bricks joint Origin Energy. The ‘new’ Managing Director and businesses with strong market introduces ‘LEAN’ manufacturing. venture combining their Boral focuses on introduces Fix, Execute, Sir Eric Neal retires after 37 years of positions. In the mid-1990s the Divestments include US and Asian Australian east coast construction and building Transform journey service, 14 as Boral’s Chief Executive. company expands plasterboard construction materials operations. brick operations materials under Rod He is replaced by Bruce Kean operations in Indonesia, Malaysia Investments include the Pearse’s leadership Peppertree quarry and China Peppertree quarry

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goals in operational and cost improvements HEARING FROM BORAL’S

and superior customer service. BN: What are your memories of the LONGEST-SERVING EMPLOYEES interesting times in Boral’s history? We asked the longest-serving employee from each BB: Boral historically had grown by of our Australian, USA and USG Boral’s operations acquisition. It’s hard to imagine that a company that started in bitumen and oil would to share some insights from their time at Boral. end up with no bitumen and oil and a whole Here’s some of what they had to say. bunch of construction materials. We had Boral Resources, Boral Plasterboard, Boral Gas, BORAL NEWS: What do you like most about Boral Steel, Cyclone Fencing, and when Boral working at Boral? took over BMI in 1982 we inherited a range of WILLIE WALKER JR.: Working with the people. The businesses in concrete placing, timber, lifts, Boral employees I come in contact with are respectful, windows, tyres and drill bits, to name a few! caring, and willing to work as a team. Boral management is All that changed in around 2000 when helpful and fair, they treat employees like family. we centralised a lot of the administration KEVIN BISHOP: Every day is a learning experience. functions in the era of CEO Tony Berg and later Rod Pearse. I think Boral had just And the mateship of my workmates. become too big to be managed in the way it JIM BROWNING: A good working environment and had been before, and it was hard to keep team spirit. growing by acquisition. These were really interesting times. It was a big change as the BN: What’s the best thing about being with the management teams went from essentially company for such a long time? running their own businesses to managing WILLIE WALKER JR.: At my age, saving for bits of it. retirement is very important. Boral provides the tools to I think the values of Boral today under help me do that, and contributes to my savings. Mike Kane’s leadership are stronger. KEVIN BISHOP: To work in a job you like! Culturally the company has grown a lot. BN: What about customer BN: What are you most proud of over this time? requirements – have these changed? Top: Willie Walker Jr. – Loader Operator, Boral JIM BROWNING: The ability to make a difference by BB: Our customers are looking for higher Bricks – Augusta, GA, USA, being a part of the USG Boral Technical Committee. technical requirements in concrete, 56 years service particularly in construction of high-rise Middle: Kevin Bishop – BN: What’s a favourite memory over this time? buildings and infrastructure. More than ever Plant Operator, Linwood KEVIN BISHOP: In 2014, I had the opportunity to they’re looking for increased durability for Quarry, South Australia, meet our CEO, Mike Kane. I thought it was marvellous that infrastructure projects designed for a life of Construction Materials & Cement, 52 years service he would give up his time to meet our team. BOB BORNSTEIN 100 years plus, which needs sophisticated testing on a whole range of attributes, which Bottom: Jim Browning – we do at our laboratory. Technical Training Manager, BN: What’s been the biggest change? The other need relates to sustainability Pinkenba, Queensland, WILLIE WALKER JR.: The biggest positive change USG Boral, 52 years service Bob Bornstein has seen BORAL NEWS: Tell us about how you that accidents by their nature just happen. That and lower carbon products. We’ve seen this occurred in the early years, resulting in unifying management and employees into a team. The history of much change in his started your career. has completely gone. In our testing laboratory more in commercial buildings but it’s moving BOB BORNSTEIN: I started in 1970 as where we have 49 employees, we haven’t had into infrastructure too. We’ve developed the US in the South has a lot to do with this change. When 46 years at Boral. His career a cadet with Blue Metal Industries (BMI), a lost time injury for the last 16 years! products to meet this need over time, Boral acquired the old Merry Bros. operations, they spans plant construction, studying civil engineering at university. Not in my The diversity of our workforce is another including more recently ENVISIA®. It’s truly brought a ‘team/family’ attitude resulting in a friendlier, technical management, wildest dreams did I think I’d last 46 years at change. In the testing laboratory our unique globally and one of the few significant positive workplace. sales and marketing as well the same company! I’m probably one of the few employees represent 19 nationalities, and advances in concrete technology for people in Boral who made television and radio there’s more of a focus on cultural and gender as concrete operations decades, and it’s all ours! ENVISIA® has the BN: What advice would you give a new starter? advertisements selling concrete back in the diversity which is a good thing. potential to be a breakthrough product for us. WILLIE WALKER JR.: A job is what you make of it; it and general management. day, which of course we don’t do anymore. In the early 1970s there were industrial BN: What’s the best advice you’ve has to do with your attitude. What you put into it is what But in reality it’s been like having a variety strikes for sometimes weeks at a time. Boral Today he is Technical been given, and your advice to younger you’ll get out of it. You need to be a good listener, do your of careers. I’ve held many different technical, and its employees work much more Services Manager for colleagues? best and treat your fellow workers as you want to sales and operational roles, and there have collaboratively these days. BB: Early in my career, one of my be treated. Construction Materials also been ownership changes which kept BN: What are some of your proudest managers said “Never assume!”. Be critical, KEVIN BISHOP: Listen, focus and enjoy your work & Cement in New South things interesting. moments? double-check things and don’t take things at – the work isn’t as hard as it used to be! BN: What have you most valued in BB: Winning major projects by doing Wales and looks after the face value. This has held me in good stead. JIM BROWNING: Focus on what you can do for your time at Boral? something differently to our competitors has laboratory in Baulkham I also think it’s important to be enjoying the company. BB: It’s the friendships I value most. Also, been a highlight. For example, I negotiated what you’re doing, have a balanced view Hills – the largest of its kind the business itself is in a very competitive and managed a contract with a construction about things, take the good with the bad but in the southern hemisphere. market, particularly concrete, which makes it company, Civil and Civic, which was the have fun! frustrating at times, but there’s also the forerunner of Lend Lease, where we had to Boral News caught up with challenge of trying to change it and this has think innovatively about pricing the deal to Bob for a chat. captured my focus. secure the work. We monitored the contract BN: What have been the biggest closely and it worked well, and we had their changes over time? work for about 10 years as a result. BB: One of the biggest is our attitude to More recently, I’m very proud to play a safety. In the early days, there was a culture small part in helping our NSW business kick

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Boral’s hard rock quarry at Mount Bundey, Northern Territory WE EXTRACT

Boral’s resource positions are the core of our Australian operations and give us our competitive advantage. The aggregates and other materials we extract from our quarries are an essential input for our downstream concrete and asphalt operations. It is these assets, together with our cement and bitumen assets, that makes us the largest and only fully integrated construction materials company in Australia. With over 90 quarries and around one billion tonnes of reserves, Boral our strength lies in the strategic locations of these facilities close to urban areas, the high quality of our reserves, and our ability to minimise impacts on the environment and our neighbours. “We’re continually investing to optimise quarry yields and to secure our supply of high-quality aggregates to key markets across Australia for generations to come,” says Divisional Managing Director of Construction Materials & Cement, Joe Goss. Consider Peppertree, Boral’s newest quarry. David Bolton, Quarries General Manager for New South Wales, said that it represents a generational investment which secures our supply of today high-quality aggregates into the important Sydney market for more than 100 years. “The Peppertree quarry and Marulan sand plant, together with our existing Dunmore quarries to the south and Peats Ridge to the north, supply our aggregate requirements into Sydney now that the Penrith Lakes quarry is depleted,” said David. “Our $200 million investment in the Peppertree quarry, limestone manufactured sand plant at Marulan, new rail terminal at Maldon, significant rail infrastructure construction and a new services agreement for three new trains helps achieve efficient supply of materials into the Sydney market.” At Peppertree, we are using the latest technology and rail transport to achieve cost efficiency. This includes the largest in-pit mobile crusher in the southern hemisphere and over 10 kilometres of conveyor belts automating the transport of material throughout the site. Automatic loading of up to 4,000 tonnes of materials per hour allows trains to efficiently deliver daily supplies into our network via the new terminal at Maldon, upgraded rail terminal at St Peters and existing rail terminal at Enfield. In addition to the hard rock, sand and aggregates which we extract from our quarries across Australia (and in Denver, Colorado, where Boral has a construction materials business), we have Over 70 years Boral has grown strong resource positions in limestone, gypsum and clay which from an oil refinery in Sydney support our cement, plasterboard, brick and roof tile manufacturing into an international building and operations across three continents. construction materials company with operations in 13 countries QUICK FACTS Resource positions 94 50 Quarries across Australia Clay pits and open-cut across Australasia, Asia, the gypsum and limestone Middle East and North America. mines

espite changes in our operations and portfolio over this time, Boral today is an iconic brand with a long and proud history and a strong safety culture among Dits 12,000 employees and over 7,000 contractors serving thousands of customers globally. Here’s a snapshot of who we are today. >

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QUICK FACTS WE Manufacturing MAKE

Boral has a long history as a manufacturer and We are also helping make the buildings and supplier of a variety of materials, dating back roads of the future with our De Martin & Gasparini ~370 to the 1940s when we first began to produce team placing concrete for commercial and multi- bitumen for roadmaking. residential construction, primarily in Sydney, Our involvement in the production of building and our asphalt crews constructing, paving and Manufacturing sites across products can be traced back to our acquisition of maintaining roads. Australia, America, Asia Warringah Brick and Pipe Works in 1969. In many places we also have employees and and the Middle East Today across Australia in the construction contractors on the ground at customers’ sites materials sector, we produce around 7 million cubic installing and delivering finished products, including metres of pre-mix concrete, over 30 million tonnes contracted plasterers setting plasterboard, and of quarry products and around 2.5 million tonnes of roof tilers installing clay and concrete roof tiles. cement a year. Meanwhile Boral also produces pavers and Through our operations in the USA and Australia, masonry products, and softwood and hardwood we have the capacity to produce around 2.2 billion timber products for the building sector in Australia, bricks annually and 660 million roof tiles. In Australia and Cultured Stone® and composite trim and alone, this includes about 880 million standard brick siding products in the USA. Trucks and trains at St Peters terminal equivalent units including the Boral CSR JV, and But it’s Boral’s world-leading safety culture 67 million roof tiles. that really differentiates our manufacturing Across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the operations from those of other organisations, In all our transport operations, as well, safety sets us Middle East, Boral is the leading manufacturer and according to Rachael Elliott, General Manager apart. General Manager of Supply Chain Logistics in New distributor of plasterboard and associated products Operations – East for Boral Stone Products in the WE South Wales, Victoria Sherwood, says safety management and for the building industry through our USG Boral joint USA. “No matter where in the Boral world you’re leadership among drivers are vitally important functions. venture. We have the capacity to produce up to located, there are certain things that unify us, like “Heavy vehicle road transport comes with risks, but around 640 million square metres of plasterboard our commitment to Zero Harm and the principles DELIVER we’re very good at dealing with them through operational, and ceiling tiles a year. Press Operator, Andrew Slattery of LEAN manufacturing which guide us and checks roof tiles at the Wyee plant engineering and compliance management, and by working underpin how we run our business,” she said. in NSW, Australia closely with employees, dedicated lorry owner drivers With a significant number of our people involved in moving and contractors around behavioural aspects of safety materials, Boral is a major transport and logistics manager, management,” she said. “Our shared goal of Zero Harm is just moving products via road, rail and shipping to our fixed plant as applicable when we’re on the road or on our customers’ network, customer construction sites and major sites as it is when we’re working at a Boral site.” infrastructure projects across the country.

“Heavy vehicle road transport comes with risks, but we’re very QUICK FACTS Vehicle logistics in Australia good at dealing with them through operational, engineering and

compliance management” heavy transport vehicles, including 3,000 1,500 concrete agitators Our truck fleet is one of the largest in Australia, with around 3,000 company-owned and contracted heavy transport vehicles. Every year our tipper trucks and tankers travel more than 100 million kilometres. And that doesn’t include the many short-haul deliveries by our 1,500 concrete agitators. 100 Our network extends to overseas shipping, intermodal and million kilometres travelled rail with around 20 shiploads a year of clinker and gypsum material every year by our tippers and tankers imports for cement and plasterboard manufacturing, as well as about 75 trains per week carting limestone, aggregates and cement. In the USA and in Asia we primarily rely on third-party contracted Rachael Elliott (pictured second from left) and members of the production team transport operators to deliver our products. > at the Cultured Stone plant in Chester, South Carolina, USA litres of diesel 110 consumed per year million

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WE INNOVATE & TRANSFORM

Boral’s Innovation Factory is a testament to our commitment to innovation. The Innovation Factory in San Antonio, USA, focuses on material science, composite products, and WE process development, while our sister Boral Asphalt crew on the job at Gateway WA research and development centre in Sydney, Australia, specialises in MANAGE cementitious materials and concrete technology.ology. Increasingly, our customers “We’re used to developing “We take age-old materials and innovate look to partner with us on new ways to do things and QUICK FACTS to create products that perform better large-scale projects that overcoming our customers’ Major projects and contribute to a more sustainably built are complex, technically challenges,” added Wayne. environment,” said Russell Hill, Vice President challenging and require He points to our relationship and Global Chief Technology Officer. tailored solutions. with Lend Lease at the “We’ve already created entirely new This involves the application Barangaroo precinct development road infrastructure product categories through this process, and of specialised skill sets including in Sydney, where we reduced works planned more are on the way with over 100 registered across Australia technical, contract management traffic congestion and improved $41bn US Patents to date,” he said. over the next 5 years and delivery expertise, and – it safety on the project with the use For example, in the USA we created goes without saying – the same of a mobile, on-site concrete plant the Boral TruExterior® trim and siding line of best-in-class approach to health utilising a central pumping system. products to compete with the wood cladding and safety. For Bechtel, we supplied concrete market. Using patented poly-ash technology, Wayne Manners, Executive to LNG resource projects in the we developed a synthetic material made “We’re manufacturing and distributing General Manager of Construction remote locations of Wheatstone works that Boral is with specialty formulated urethane glue and fly ash, technologically advanced plasterboard and currently tendering on1 Materials in WA/ NT, heads up a in Western Australia and Curtis $25bn which is resistant to moisture and maintains a high associated building products that provide much specialist team in Boral’s Project Island in Queensland, establishing level of dimensional stability. The products have better solutions for the high-performance buildings “It represents Management Office (PMO) where completely new supply chains by opened new channels and markets for our of the future,” said Frederic de Rougemont, CEO of a significant our major projects expertise has doing so. US business. USG Boral. ® developed in recent years. With this in mind it’s not Another world-leading innovation, ENVISIA , These products enable customers to push innovation in “Whether it’s a high-intensity surprising that so many customers delivers lower carbon concrete with the same, if not the boundaries of what they thought possible, concrete” project located in the CBD choose Boral and that we’re well 1Value of work is not the better, performance characteristics as conventional Frederic added. That’s because they’re challenging requiring innovative product and positioned to help build new road same as materials concrete using our proprietary technology demand traditional construction methods, making structures delivery solutions, or a highly and infrastructure projects in developed by the Innovation Factory. “It represents lighter and stronger, allowing taller buildings be built technical project in a remote Australia, said General Manager, a significant innovation in concrete that we believe more quickly. “We’re enabling our customers to location with complex supply PMO, Andrew Legge. will be a real benefit for our customers,” said achieve innovation in design and transform the way chain issues to overcome, we’ve “Being the only fully Russell. they interact with the built environment,” he said. demonstrated a strong ability to integrated construction materials And in our USG Boral operations across For example, Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi deliver safely and reliably,” provider in the major projects Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East, Arabia, will be the world’s tallest skyscraper and the said Wayne. space, we’re well positioned innovation is transforming the business as well first building to reach the height of one kilometre When overseeing such to assist in the delivery of an as delivering a step-change in the internal linings once built. Helping to break the record are USG projects, the PMO can offer expected $6-$8 billion per year of industry. Boral’s products, including Sheetrock® Shaft Wall strong project and contract road infrastructure over the next System, wall panels and drywall ceilings, steel management oversight, several years,” said Andrew. “We’re used framing, insulation, sealants, tape and paper-faced comprehensive training, access “We’ve already secured to developing corner bead and trim. to appropriately skilled resources delivery of materials to a road new ways “That was the promise made when USG and and project audits. In addition, the project in Sydney, NorthConnex, Boral joined forces in early 2014, and we’re fulfilling team can use its expertise to help which will require 500,000 cubic to do things it today,” Frederic said. Boral secure further work and also metres of concrete, and we help provide innovative solutions expect to secure more such and overcoming to address customers’ needs. projects. This will be an our customers’ important area of growth for us in coming years.” challenges”

16 | BORAL NEWS | APR 2016 BORAL NEWS | APR 2016 | 17 4th annual Stop for CCTV is raising Safety Day in WA awareness in USG Boral On 18 January 2016 the Construction Materials team Across USG Boral, a program is in Western Australia stopped work for safety. With over underway to review closed-circuit 350 people in attendance on the day, presentations were television (CCTV) footage to identify given by Executive General Manager, WA/NT Wayne Manners positive, safe behaviours as well as and CM&C Divisional Managing Director Joe Goss as well as those that are more risky. former SAS Commander and Boral employee For some time, CCTV monitoring has Troy Simmons and sports psychologist Cliff Mallett. been used to help investigate and “Stopping all operations to take time out to focus on review processes after an event when our safety and wellbeing sends a strong message that Recognising success in the USA something has gone wrong. But now teams of USG Boral employees are we’re very serious about Zero Harm Today for all of As facilities reach milestones on their Zero Harm Today journey, safety celebrations are proactively using CCTV from known, our people. We didn’t spend the time introducing new taking place in Boral in the USA. In December, Boral Roofing employees in Phoenix, Arizona, high-risk areas to engage in safety processes or procedures. It was simply about stopping celebrated 10 years of Zero Harm – that’s zero medical injuries and zero lost time injuries discussions and to identify precursors and thinking about safety – ensuring that it’s front of mind for all plant workers, shipping personnel, the sales team and support team members. for everyone.” to potentially harmful events. Through When asked how they did it, plant manager Tony Lopez said, “It’s about having an emphasis Wayne Manners, EGM WA/NT, Boral Construction Materials the review and consultation processes, on quality training. Not just knocking it out to get back to work. You need to spend time, ask better controls are being put in place questions, get input from the guys on any concerns, and truly lead by example – the whole (or behaviours and conditions changed) management team.” before a harmful event occurs. This process embraces a strict “no blame” Our commitment to Zero Harm and efforts “While in Boral USA our people are still getting hurt at work, which is unacceptable, approach if negative behaviours are to deliver it today are showing in success we’ve experienced many days and months as a collective business achieving Zero observed, and with a clear understanding stories around the business and better Harm. Our team is more aware of risk avoidance than ever before and the initiatives that the primary goal is the team effort to safety results. Here are a few examples in place are driving positive change.” identify and implement improvements. of what we’re doing at Boral to keep the Rich Stevens, Director of Occupational Safety and Health, Boral USA focus on delivering Zero Harm Today. “The CCTV review program has helped employees realise the risks they were taking without even Reducing our injury rate Re-induction noticing. One picture is worth a programs in Boral thousand words, and it can easily be shared across all manufacturing sites For the half year ended December 2015, Boral delivered a Construction Materials regardless of language and culture.” 29 percent year-on-year reduction in our lost time injury frequency A clear Vision for Zero Harm In Construction Materials in NSW, Regis Humbert, Manufacturing Director – rate for employees and contractors to 1.2 per million hours worked. in Roofing & Masonry employees and contractors working Thailand/Malaysia/India/Vietnam, USG Boral Our recordable injury frequency rate, which includes medical in our Quarries, Concrete (including treatment and lost time injuries, has also reduced substantially, In mid-2015, 24 leaders from Boral’s Roofing & Masonry Concrite), Logistics and Asphalt down 26 per cent year-on-year to 8.6 per million hours worked. businesses developed their new Zero Harm Safety Vision businesses have been re-inducted into with the assistance of an organisational psychologist and the business. An important theme of the with input from the entire workforce. re-induction program this year is Zero LOST TIME INJURY FREQUENCY RATE1 Following the roll-out of the vision at the end of October 2015, Harm Today with top performing Zero the Roofing & Masonry leadership team hosted a Harm sites recognised and celebrated. 2.0 one-day Zero Harm workshop in December, where an 1.9 1.9 -29% additional 23 leaders and supervisors came together to 1.8 1.8 consider how to achieve Zero Harm Today. 1.7 “After creating a shared vision, we’ve been building on the Curtis Island LNG 1.2 momentum of the Zero Harm Leadership Summit. In recent concrete mobile weeks we’ve finalised our Zero Harm strategy which we’ve “Our Macksville, Wavehill FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 1H 1H designed to reach all employees and which we’ll extend plants demobilisation FY15 FY16 and Currabubula quarries to contractors and customers.” In November 2015, the demobilisation of in northern New South RECORDABLE INJURY FREQUENCY RATE1 Charlie Condo, General Manager, Boral Roofing & Masonry six mobile concrete plants from the Curtis Island LNG projects Wales have now achieved in Queensland was safely and 21.4 over one year of Zero successfully completed. 19.0 17.4 -26% Harm. It was great to 13.6 “With access only by barge, it was a 12.1 recognise that success 11.7 very complex and challenging exercise 8.6 to demobilise six mobile plants from in our latest annual Curtis Island. It was six months in the re-induction video for planning and took a total of 19,100 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 1H 1H employees FY15 FY16 hours to complete. Most importantly, those 19,100 hours were accident and contractors.” and injury free.” David Bolton, General Manager, Quarries NSW/ACT 1 Lost time injury frequency rate (per million hours worked) and recordable Josiah Strong, Graduate Engineer, injury frequency rate (per million hours worked) for employees and contractors Boral Concrete Queensland for Boral and Boral JV companies of 50 per cent or greater equity

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THE PROJECT AIMS Boral Timber turns TO REDUCE CARBON by-products into value-added biofutures EMISSIONS BY Boral Timber currently sources its products from 100 per 3,000 TONNES AND cent sustainably managed forests certified by a third-party SUSTAINABILITY independent audit, with hardwood resources harvested under DELIVER ONGOING some of the most stringent environmental regulations in the world. INITIATIVES – OPERATIONAL However, because of the nature of the hardwood timber business, where long rectangular boards are milled from round, and often not SAVINGS OF AROUND perfectly straight logs, a large proportion of timber logged can end up GOOD FOR THE as some form of by-product. This, the company recognises, represents $1 MILLION A YEAR a unique opportunity to create a renewable, low-carbon energy source as well as a range of innovative value-added products. ENVIRONMENT, To that end Boral Timber already uses a significant proportion of its residue by-products as biofuel. All three of our North Coast NSW finishing plants produce their own process heat on site, and at the GOOD FOR Murwillumbah timber mill, chipped residue is used as boiler fuel for the cogeneration plant, providing electrical power to operate the plant. Boral’s timber residues are also sold to external electricity BUSINESS generators and large industrial users for the generation of process heat. But we can do more, and Boral’s timber operations are poised to take advantage of advances in technology to help turn more by- product materials into renewable, sustainable products. This is known as “biofutures” which are created via a wide range of processes that have a biological source, including bioenergy, Investments in how we use our biofuels and biochemicals. The idea behind biofutures is to transform by-products are reducing Boral’s Quarry by-product upgrade a low-valued biological by-product into value-added assets while impact on the environment reduces emissions benefiting the environment at the same time. as well as boosting the bottom Keith Davidson, General Manager of Fibre Resources for Boral Timber, is a member of the team evaluating biofutures opportunities line. Boral News caught up with A project which is expected to reduce carbon emissions which could potentially create new revenue streams and reduce costs. initiatives at the Bacchus Marsh by over 3,000 tonnes over its life will soon be completed “It’s exciting that technologies are developing and governments are at the Bacchus Marsh sand quarry, an hour north-west of quarry in Victoria and our NSW talking about stimulating industrial biotechnology,” he said. Melbourne. “We want to be part of the emerging biofutures industry, so we’re Timber operations to find out more. The process of extracting raw sand material at the quarry exploring a range of opportunities to increase the use creates a by-product called tailings, which are in a liquid form. of residues. For example, we’re looking at new, highly scalable As part of the project, new equipment will process tailings so that electricity generating plants and working with our colleagues in they emerge as a dry material, eliminating the need to transport the Construction Materials business to look at new additives in the the tailings to dams. formulation of asphalt for roads to improve the properties The project will deliver ongoing operational savings of of bitumen. This is only the start of a continuing process to add value around $1 million a year by cutting transport and materials to our by-products,” said Keith. handling costs, and will see significant improvements in on-site water recovery and recycling. Boral’s Group Environmental Advisor Dr Richard Strauch Top right: Boral’s Bacchus Marsh quarry in Victoria says it’s a win-win. “Liquid tailings often present costly challenges Below: The tailings plant at the quarry in the production process of quarried or mined materials. So to install new equipment to extract the water from the tailings at the point of production is an elegant solution,” he said. The project is partially funded through the Voluntary Waste Industry Protocol, which was established to ensure that carbon charges collected by landfill operators (prior to the abolition of

the carbon tax) are used to reinvest in the region and to reduce Top: One of Boral’s timber mills environmental impacts. Boral is a voluntary participant in the Bottom: Cogeneration plant at Boral’s Murwillumbah program because of our role as the former owner and operator timber mill, NSW of the Western Landfill, now owned by Transpacific Industries.

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Back at the plant, it’s time for a lunch break. In the four-and-a-half hours since starting production, thousands of metres of a variety A DAY IN THE of metal products have been made and packaged, ready for distribution and sale.

Packer Lei leads the team in doing pre-shift Customer Service Officer Faith is busy stretches: shoulder and back stretches, dealing with customer orders and delivery 13:00 squats and lunges. The exercise helps logistics. Today, trucks are delivering prevent injuries by warming up the muscles products to major distributors: USG Boral LIFE OF... ® involved in operating the plant’s machinery. Once the checks are completed, formed SHEETROCK Cove and compounds are The business recently celebrated 20 years metal products start rolling off the line. going to New Zealand Ceilings & Drywall ® free of lost time injuries! The machines run slit steel coils through Supplies, while various USG Boral Donn With a strong position in Brand metal grid products are heading out USG BORAL’S commercial and residential a multi-stage roll forming process that shapes the metal into the required shape. to Potter Interior Systems. segments, the business is METAL 07:45 The lengths of formed metal are cut leveraging local market precisely to specification by flying shears, knowledge and plasterboard then are pressed to create holes or riveted Marketing & Technical Support Manager PRODUCTS expertise in Australia to enter the with clips, depending on the product. The 10:45 John heads to Ponsonby where a large internal linings market. Here’s an products then roll off the line directly to retail and commercial development is PLANT IN insight into a busy day with the packers who conduct a final quality check, under construction. Sub-contractor Apex 30-strong team, led by David before grouping and packaging them. Interiors is installing a 2,000-square-metre Peck, Ceilings & Specifications suspended ceiling for a supermarket using AUCKLAND, Director & New Zealand Manager, the USG Boral Donn® Brand DX Exposed and John Fonoti, Production & 10:00 Grid System. NEW Regional Distribution Manager. Workshop foreman Tony and toolmakers Peter and Hai conduct pre-start checks on ZEALAND all the machinery, checking switches, 13:30 07:30 safety guards and lubricating parts where At the warehouse loading dock, after required. unloading USG Boral SHEETROCK® plasterboard sent from the Pinkenba plant in Queensland, Store Supervisor Afele 07:55 starts back-loading a shipping container Boral News spent a day with metal grid products to be sent to at the metal products Plant staff have a 10-minute morning tea Adelaide. Containers are shipped to and plant and office in break, which includes a quick game of from Australia on a regular basis. pool, before they resume production. Mangere, Auckland, Brian heads to the Auckland CBD to visit where USG Boral 11:00 a multi-residential site where he’s been Staff gather on the plant floor for the daily advising on metal stud and plasterboard manufactures metal safety huddle, which includes discussion 10:20 installation. The 50-apartment, 14-storey products for wall and about safety, training, operating best building is using USG Boral SHEETROCK®, ceiling systems and practices and production plans. Today, Firestop® and Wetstop® plasterboards, the The production lines start humming: Line 1 imports mineral fibre four out of five production lines will be USG Boral Steel Stud & Track Partition operating. is making the same main tees it did Wall System and USG Boral ScrewFix® ceiling tiles, compounds yesterday while Line 2 makes cross tees. Plasterboard Suspension System. and plasterboard from On all lines, operators and engineers carry the USA, Asia and 07:35 out first-off checks, ensuring that the first products that come off the line meet 16:00 Australia. The business specification and quality requirements. Architectural Specifications and Business After the first-off check, Operator Vena Development Manager Brian hits the joined the USG Boral In the office that overlooks the plant, stops Line 2 to realign one of the metal road to meet with current and potential joint venture in March engineer David is discussing with rollers making cross tees. customers. First up, he’s showing an colleagues the seismic capacity of USG 2014 but has been architect a 40-terrace development under Boral products for a multi-residential manufacturing in New construction by G.J. Gardener Homes in development. The building architect Hobsonville Point which uses the USG Zealand since 1969! is looking to specify metal stud and Boral Partiwall® Intertenancy System and track and a range of plasterboard for a USG Boral Shaftliner™ plasterboard. Operator Vena provides the team with 160-apartment building due to be built in 2017. Back at the plant, operators and packers refresher training on the emergency stops finish the last shift of the day and switch on Line 4 which produces metal stud and off all the machinery. They clear up the track products. scrap metal piles, sweep up their work areas and complete production and safety documentation, ready to do it all again tomorrow.

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DEC JAN JAN/FEB FEB MAR MAR In the

BUILDING HOPE WITH STAFF RAISE $45,600 IN RIDE TAKE ME OUT TO HOMEAID ATLANTA’S KILOS FOR VERY HARDWARE STORES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TO CURE DIABETES THE BALL GAME TRADE PARTNER OF GOOD CAUSES GIVE SHEETROCK® THE Boral staff volunteered for Habitat About 250 cyclists, including Boral Boral staff and their families THE YEAR Gepps Cross asphalt plant THUMBS UP for Humanity’s Building Hope staff, rode the tough hills of the enjoyed baseball games in Boral USA was honoured as the operator Brad Round spearheaded USG Boral SHEETROCK® won the 2016 campaign, raising awareness Barossa Valley in South Australia for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane 2015 Trade Partner of the Year in a month-long weight loss and Innovation of the Year award at the in Sydney’s CBD of Habitat’s work the Juvenile Diabetes Research and Perth during the Australian HomeAid Atlanta’s 10th annual nutrition campaign for 33 staff from Home Timber & Hardware (HTH) in Australia and Asia. Also in Foundation’s 2016 Ride to Cure Baseball League’s 2015/16 awards, which recognise across the SA business. As part of Group national conference on the December, USG Boral’s Tom Diabetes. Our riders contributed more season. The ABL Championship commitment to the non-profit his ‘Kilos for a Cause’ campaign, Gold Coast, Queensland. Spencer had the honour of than $45,600 to the fundraising total Series Presented by Boral was provider of housing for the for every kilogram of weight lost by Independent HTH hardware store handing over a home built by of $800,000 supporting research won by the Brisbane Bandits. homeless. In 2015 Boral USA the team, Boral donated $20 to owners chose SHEETROCK® from Habitat to a partner family. into Type 1 diabetes. Every year Boral is proud to sponsor two contributed US$15,000 of bricks, the Juvenile Diabetes Research among nine product displays at USG Boral donated SHEETROCK® 2,000 people in Australia are seasons of the ABL Championship sand and mortar to HomeAid’s Foundation. Well done, Brad the conference. USG Boral’s plasterboard and other products diagnosed with the disease. Series and the ABL All-Star major build projects, in addition to and team – and keep up the Christine Standfield, Luke Holman to help build three homes in Yea, Games in 2015 and 2016. our corporate sponsorship (Boral healthy eating! and Bruce Wiley were there to Victoria. USA President and CEO Al Borm, claim the trophy! pictured right). community

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COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP MIKE KANE JOINS PANEL LIVVI’S PLACE BALLARAT BORAL GOLF CLASSIC HELPING HANDS FOR OUR LAND PEOPLE FOR NSW YOUTH OF BUSINESS LEADERS OPENS TO THE PUBLIC RETURNS FOR REDKITE BUSH REGENERATION STORIES NATIONAL TOUR As part of this year’s Boral Youth CEO and Managing Director Mike Touched by Olivia opened its Boral Construction Materials A team of volunteers from the North Bangarra’s 2016 national Leadership Project with Outward Kane spoke on the subject of latest, state-of-the-art inclusive WA hosted its third annual charity Sydney office will spend the day at production, OUR land people Bound, 26 Year 9 students from ‘Risk Takers, Growth Makers’ at playspace in Victoria Park, golf day supporting Redkite. Bradleys Head near Taronga Zoo, stories, is touring Sydney, Perth, the Southern Highlands and the Australian Financial Review’s Ballarat. Boral is proud to have Customers, partners, suppliers helping the zoo’s horticultural staff to Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne Tablelands region near our Business Summit 2016 in Melbourne. contributed to Livvi’s Place Ballarat and employees teed off at regenerate native bushland on the from mid-June. This triple bill Marulan South and Highland Speaking alongside other Australian with concrete and cash donations. Joondalup golf course to raise Sydney Harbour foreshore. This year performance will showcase operations embarked on a and international business leaders, The playspace features multiple funds for Redkite’s financial Taronga Zoo celebrates its centenary Bangarra’s choreographic talents seven-day personal development Mike discussed challenges facing play zones, including a water play support services, which help with an exciting calendar of events, and celebrate the stories of camp in Tharwa, ACT. The Australian companies and the need precinct and accessible play families of children with cancer. including its 100th birthday party on Australia’s cultural heritage. Boral program focuses on developing for leadership to shape the future equipment for children of Team members will also take part 7 October 2016 – see taronga.org.au staff can access discounted tickets sustainable community leadership of Australia’s business economy. all abilities. in the SCODY 5 Dams Challenge for more details. to performances across the and other skills for young people. to support Redkite. country – contact Corporate Affairs for details.

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