From left: Fulton Hogan managing director Dave Faulkner with FRH Group CEO Nick Miller and Victorian treasurer John Brumby at the launch of FRH Group’s Dandenong asphalt plant last Friday.
THE whopping 770,000 tonnes of asphalt required for the EastLink tollway will be produced in Dandenong South.
Last week asphalt company FRH Group officially opened its Dandenong South plant, touting it as a “$16.5 million investment in advanced civil engineering and construction in Australia”.
FRH Group chief executive Nick Miller said the plant was the most advanced, efficient and environmentally friendly of its type in Australia.
He said the plant provided 50 jobs for Dandenong locals who would create and lay 2500 tonnes of asphalt each day until the EastLink project is complete.
The plant’s specifications include:
– four 150 tonne hot storage silos;
– four 60,000-litre vertical bitumen tanks with stirrers;
– eight cold bins for rapid interchanging of mixes;
– six rollers, two pavers and two shuttle buggies;
– seven specifically designed semi tipping trucks which can shorten their wheel-base to more efficiently unload asphalt into the shuttle buggy;
– lime storage silos and binder storage tanks;
– 300 tonnes of asphalt production each hour;
– 6000 tonnes of aggregate storage capacity; and is
– located near the EastLink project to allow trucks easy access and to limit the amount hauled along existing roads.
Mr Miller said the plant could also recycle asphalt torn up from older roads, which would in the long-term limit the amount of waste.
The plant is in Dana Court, Dandenong South.
FRH Group has more than 900 employees at its Melbourne headquarters, and has regional and major projects offices in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia.
The company is owned by Fulton Hogan, a New Zealand company with annual sales in excess of NZ$1.3 billion.
