Francis Larkin

Independent Cement and Lime Group

Independent Cement and Lime is a Port Melbourne based specialist supplier of cement and cement-based products to a wide variety of projects and industries throughout Victoria and New South Wales. In a relatively short period of time Independent Cement and Lime has grown to a point where it is now Victoria's leading supplier of cement and cement-blended products. A state of the art terminal in Port Melbourne, Victoria, dispatches over 1 MT of cement products each year. ICL attributes its success to its commitment to: • In public terms, the business maintains a very low profile, yet its products have played a key role in many of Victoria's major infrastructure and building projects for over three decades now. • Cement is the ‘glue' that binds sand and aggregates together to form concrete, one of the key construction materials available today- second only to water, concrete is the most consumed material on earth. (Cement Federation – Sustainability Report) • It is ICL's cement that is such an important ‘glue' in Victoria's building and development projects. Think of any number of major projects- Beacon Cove, the Hume Freeway, Bolte Bridge, Dockland Stadium, the Melbourne Aquatic Centre or the Desalination plant- and ICL's cement will have played a key role. • ICL's cement has been equally important to local communities through housing, commercial and office construction, as well as roads and footpaths. • In recent years, ICL's focus has shifted to sustainability, with the business investing heavily in developing products that reduce the environmental impact of the cementitious binders used in concrete. These ‘Ecoblend' products as they are called, are now an increasingly important part of ICL's business and are a testament to ICL's vision and leadership in sustainability in the cement industry.