ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Ekati Diavik Meadowbank
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2013ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Ekati Diavik Meadowbank North Bay Tumbler Ridge CANADA Mount Wright Calgary Maitland Lausanne Biwabik Boisbriand Tirana St Helens Ormstown Bucharest Barry Simsbury Ankara Salt Lake City Port Ewen Cheyenne USA Soma Donora TURKEY Carthage Duffield Louisiana, Missouri Graham CHINA Linyi (Fabchem) PAKISTAN Ammonia Plant, Louisiana Brooksville New Delhi Dinamita Wolf Lake Hong Kong Gomez Palacios INDIA Guadalajara MEXICO Muara Tuhup Tenggarong Batu Arang (TKEB) Berau PAPUA NEW GUINEA SOUTH Sibolga Tanjung Tabalong Lihir AFRICA Jakarta Batu Kajang INDONESIA Moranbah Townsville Port Hedland LATIN Mt Isa Moura AMERICA Phosphate Hill (Queensland Nitrates) AUSTRALIA Gibson Island Kalgoorlie Helidon La Serena Johannesburg (SASOL Dyno Nobel) Perth Kooragang Island Santiago Port Adelaide Johannesburg (DetNet) Melbourne Portland Geelong Devonport Incitec Pivot Limited Company Headquarters Incitec Pivot Fertilisers Corporate Office Manufacturing/Distribution Quantum Fertilisers Dyno Nobel Corporate Office Manufacturing/Distribution Joint Ventures/Investments Ekati Diavik Meadowbank North Bay Tumbler Ridge CANADA Mount Wright Calgary Maitland Lausanne Biwabik Boisbriand Tirana St Helens Ormstown Bucharest Barry Simsbury Ankara Salt Lake City Port Ewen Cheyenne USA Soma Donora TURKEY Carthage Duffield Louisiana, Missouri Graham CHINA Linyi (Fabchem) PAKISTAN Ammonia Plant, Louisiana Brooksville New Delhi Dinamita Wolf Lake Hong Kong Gomez Palacios INDIA Guadalajara MEXICO Muara Tuhup Tenggarong Batu Arang (TKEB) Berau Contents PAPUA NEW GUINEA SOUTH Sibolga Tanjung Tabalong Lihir Chairman’s Report ii AFRICA Jakarta Batu Kajang Managing Director’s Report iv INDONESIA Moranbah Townsville Board of Directors vi Port Hedland LATIN Mt Isa Moura AMERICA Executive Team vii Phosphate Hill (Queensland Nitrates) AUSTRALIA Gibson Island Directors’ Report 1 Kalgoorlie Helidon La Serena – Remuneration Report 13 Johannesburg (SASOL Dyno Nobel) Perth Kooragang Island Santiago – Corporate Governance Port Adelaide Statement 28 Johannesburg (DetNet) Melbourne Portland Geelong Devonport Financial Report 40 VISION STATEMENT To be the best in our markets, delivering Zero Harm and outstanding business performance through our people, our culture and our customer focus. Chairman’s Report Our strategy is sound and our major projects are important in delivering our financial performance. It is a pleasure to be able to report to The balance sheet is in a strong position our 2014 target of 300,000 tonnes. shareholders following my first full year reflecting the financial discipline applied The Louisiana project is a particularly as Chairman of Incitec Pivot Limited. by the Board and management exciting one and is an excellent fit with The year has been a mixed one, with the throughout the business. our strategy. We have a brownfield site financial results adversely impacted by a Our Managing Director & CEO, James which is extremely well suited to our number of factors, some beyond our Fazzino, discusses the financial results in operations and have negotiated a lump control and some which point to areas more detail in his report. sum turnkey contract with KBR, whom where we need to improve our own we believe to be at the forefront of global Our final dividend is 5.8 cps, bringing the performance. However, I end the year ammonia plant construction. The IPL full year dividend to 9.2 cps, a decrease feeling more confident than ever about project team we have in place is an of 26% on the 2012 full year dividend of our strategy and prospects. When we experienced one, with some key team 12.4 cps. This dividend payout ratio of look back in years to come, we will see members having also worked on the 50% of NPAT excluding IMIs reflects the 2013 as a year when we established a Moranbah project. payout ratio endorsed by the Board of strong foundation for the future, in the 30–60% of NPAT excluding IMIs. One of the highlights of the Board’s year form of the commissioning of our was our visit to Louisiana for the ground We have a wide range of shareholders on Moranbah Ammonium Nitrate Plant and breaking ceremony for the new plant. our register and we are cognisant of retail the commencement of construction of While we already understood the shareholders benefitting from franking our Ammonia Plant in Louisiana. I believe compelling economics of the project, it was credits. Our intention is to distribute that these two projects will go a very good to hear from the Louisiana Governor, franking credits when they are available. long way towards underpinning our Bobby Jindal, about the significance of this For the final dividend, we were able to results in the years ahead. project to the local community and to the maintain the 75% franking. Tragically, in 2013 there were two economy of Louisiana. We also spent time fatalities in our business, one an I would now like to turn to the Group’s with our construction contractor, KBR, and employee in North America and the other strategic direction. Our Corporate Strategy our brownfield site partner, Cornerstone a contractor working on one of our sites in is sound and we have aligned our Chemicals, discussing our approach to Australia. To the families of these men we business to the two major global trends ensuring that this project will come in on send our heartfelt condolences. In the of the industrialisation of Asia, with a time and on budget and, most importantly, wake of these incidents we conducted a particular focus on China’s growth, and the will achieve the same outstanding safety global Safety Stand-down across all our shale gas revolution in the US. At the core performance achieved during the sites, while we concentrated on of our business is nitrogen chemical construction of our Moranbah plant. manufacturing and we will continue to reinforcing our cultural messages and As James makes clear in his report, we increase the capability of our assets to operational processes to all our are not letting these two exciting projects take advantage of these market dynamics. employees, which are so critical to Zero distract us from the immediate challenges Harm. Management and the Board will Building on this footprint and increasing and, in particular, the need to improve continue to see this as the highest priority the capacity of the business in the plant reliability. In James’ report, he on their respective agendas. medium term is an important step in describes in detail some of the The financial performance of the Company implementing the strategy, which is why organisational changes which have been was impacted by a number of external the completion and operation of the made to address this. This will be high factors: a high Australian dollar, low global Moranbah Ammonium Nitrate Plant and on the agenda as part of the Board’s fertiliser prices and an international the commencement of construction for oversight function as we move into 2014. the Louisiana Ammonia Plant have been resources sector under cost pressures. During the year, the Directors had some a huge part of our 2013 endeavours. Net Profit After Tax (NPAT) excluding wonderful opportunities to visit parts of Individually Material Items (IMIs) The Moranbah plant is located in the our business, both in Australia and the decreased by 26% or $106.3 million Bowen Basin, which has some of the United States, and to interact with our to $298.4 million. After adjusting the lowest cost metallurgical coal delivered people and our customers. into Asia, and our customers are previous corresponding period for the While in the United States we met supportive of the investment by IPL. Moranbah unfavourable contract liability with major customers and joint venture release, this was a decrease of $64.3 The Moranbah plant will be a significant partners in our Coal and Quarry & million, or 18%. low cost manufacturing asset of the Group Construction divisions. Much of the Earnings Per Share (EPS) excluding for many years. Pleasingly, the Moranbah discussion focussed upon ways in which IMIs, were down 26% to 18.3 Cents plant has finished the year operating at an we could work more closely together to Per Share (cps). annualised production rate consistent with add value to their businesses. ii Incitec Pivot Limited Annual Report 2013 We now have in place a formal Board succession planning methodology covering the next seven years and taking into account the likely timing of board member rotations and the skills which will be required to allow us to drive our strategy. One of our long standing Directors, Allan McCallum, is about to complete his current three year term and will not be seeking re-election at the AGM. Allan has spent almost 16 years as a Groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the proposed Ammonia Plant in Louisiana, United States. Director of Incitec Pivot Limited and its L to R: Conrad Appel, Senator, Louisiana State Legislature; Julie Stokes, Representative, Louisiana State various antecedent companies and has Legislature; Mark Spears, Councilman, Jefferson Parish; John Young, President, Jefferson Parish; Greg made a fantastic contribution to the Zoglio, CEO, Cornerstone Chemical; Christopher Leopold, Representative, Louisiana State Legislature; Company’s growth, often in very Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana; James Fazzino, Managing Director & CEO, Incitec Pivot Limited; challenging environments. Paul Brasher, Chairman, Incitec Pivot Limited; Jerry Bologna, Executive Director, JEDCO; Robert Billiot, Representative, Louisiana State Legislature; Stan Salathe, Chairman, JEDCO; and William Utt, CEO, KBR. Allan’s wisdom and common sense and his understanding of our agricultural customers have been highly valued by the Board. We owe Allan a huge vote of This is a major theme for our business, 14% increase in our score year-on-year, thanks and wish him all the best. not just in the Explosives division but also demonstrating the targeted progress in Fertilisers, and we saw many great being made across the Group. Thank you to all of my fellow examples of how we are adding value Directors, who have been energetic Next year, as we set out our 2014–2016 and constructive and have provided through technology and innovation.