SPC / Blue Circle annual volume 1979
Inside this volume
Browse the original annual volume for company news, photographs and stories of the people and places connected with Southern Portland Cement and Blue Circle.
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A new plant opens
On 15 May 1979, guests arrived by special train and toured the new plant before Premier Neville Wran declared it open. The company newsletter recalled balloons, fireworks and a gathering beneath the huge kiln; its colour photographs bring the occasion back to life.
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Concrete earns an award
Later that year the Concrete Institute of Australia recognised the use of concrete in Berrima’s No. 6 kiln development. The company newsletter reproduced one of the photographs submitted with the entry: the raw meal blending silo beside the tall preheater structure. The award account gives a sense of the scale and design of a changing works.