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Adelaide Brighton Limited
www.adbri.com.au/
www.adbri.com.au/
Description
Adelaide Brighton Ltd is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of cement, and cementitious products, lime, ready mixed concrete, aggregates, sand and concrete products. The Company operates in two segments: construction and mining materials, which is engaged in the production and sale of clinker, cement, lime, ready mixed concrete and supplementary cementitious materials, and building products, which is engaged in the production and sale of building products, including concrete masonry products. The major end-users of these products are the Australian residential and non-residential construction, engineering construction and mining markets. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Comapny purchased the Blanchetown quarry in South Australia, a supplier of gypsum to the Birkenhead plant. In December 2007, it acquired 50% interest in the Mawsons group of companies.
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