Australia: Cement Australia plans to upgrade and expand its Port Kembla Harbour operations to replace its Glebe Island facility, which is slated for closure by 2030, according to local press. In February 2026, the New South Wales (NSW) government announced that the Glebe Island facility would close by December 2030. The company has been operating a grinding mill at Port Kembla’s outer harbour since 2014. It currently produces 1.4Mt/yr of cement, slag and fly ash, on a 2.5 hectare site.
Cement Australia said in a scoping report tendered to the NSW Planning, Housing and Infrastructure Department that it intends to upgrade the existing Port Kembla terminal and build an import facility to enable it to despatch a further 1.4Mt/yr into the local market. It also plans to build an export facility to ship up to 0.6Mt/yr of cementitious materials to other Australian states. The project will increase the throughput and storage capacity of the Port Kembla facility to 3.4Mt/yr.
“With the announcement of closure of the Glebe Island facility, Cement Australia is proposing to replace its Glebe Island facility with a suitable facility at Port Kembla,” the report said. “The project is necessary to offset the impact of the closure of the Glebe Island facility in December 2030, to ensure no disruption to NSW’s cementitious products supply and to increase the use of supplementary cementitious materials.”
The report said that Cement Australia was strategically located in the heavy industrial heart of Port Kembla, which allowed heavy vehicle access to major arterial roads, access to shipping facilities at the adjacent No 6 jetty in the outer harbour and access to granulated blast furnace slag from the BlueScope Steelworks, as well as limestone and gypsum suppliers in the region.
