- Business
- Boral Limited operates as Australia's largest vertically integrated construction materials company, supplying a comprehensive range of products and services to residential, commercial, industrial, infrastructure, roads and engineering markets nationwide. The company produces and distributes quarry products including aggregates, sand and gravel; cement and supplementary cementitious materials such as fly ash; concrete products encompassing low-carbon concretes like Aspire and ENVISIA brands, precast segments, ready-mix and concrete placing services; asphalt, bitumen and advanced asphalts with laying and spray sealing capabilities; construction materials recycling and circular solutions; and technical services covering compliance testing, R&D, quality control for concrete, admixtures, curing compounds, mortar, grout, building materials like bricks, pavers, roof tiles and masonry units, road materials, aggregates and environmental monitoring via advanced laboratory techniques including ICP-AES, XRF and spectroscopy. Boral maintains an extensive network of over 360 operating sites featuring quarries, cement infrastructure, bitumen facilities, asphalt and concrete batching plants, supporting high-profile projects such as Quay Quarter Tower, Western Sydney International Airport runways, Melbourne Metro Tunnel precast segments and supply to Gateway Bridge and Forrestfield Airport Link. Founded in 1946 and headquartered in North Ryde, New South Wales, Boral employs approximately 7,500 employees and contractors across Australia. In a major development, Seven Group Holdings Limited completed its acquisition of the remaining 28.4% stake in Boral in July 2024 through compulsory acquisition, achieving 100% ownership and resulting in Boral's delisting from the Australian Securities Exchange on 5 July 2024; Boral now operates as a subsidiary of Seven Group Holdings. Recent operational advancements include the acquisition of Wallan Concrete plant north of Melbourne, applications to extend Montrose Quarry in Victoria for additional 20Mt of materials supporting 30 years of supply, delivery of higher first-half FY25 earnings despite softer volumes through the "Good to Great" transformation programme enhancing customer delivery to 83% on-time rate, fleet upgrades for productivity and contributions to projects like low-carbon solutions at Quay Quarter Tower and asphalt for Western Sydney Airport. Boral continues to emphasize sustainability with low-carbon concretes, recycling initiatives including heavy vehicle collections for aggregate reuse and participation in ministerial roundtables on concrete supply.