Building a Better Future for All™

We continue to reduce waste by making our operations more efficient by employing our Hardie Manufacturing Operating System (HMOS), LEAN thinking and best practices across facilities. We are finding new ways to reuse materials within our plants. In APAC, we diverted 98% of our waste materials from going to landfill. Some material is recycled back into our production processes, and some is sent to local companies to keep materials in the value stream.

When installing and commissioning new laboratory testing equipment at our Rosehill facility, we found that our existing high-grade purified water was insufficient. But rather than increasing primary purification capacity, an employee identified a system that could repurify the water to be used again. This system not only increased purified water availability to our labs but also reduced project costs by 70% and reduced total freshwater consumption and waste from the system by 90%.

Through Habitat for Humanity in Australia, our employees participated in 9 volunteer days, and for Habitat Women we donated cash and products to help teach women installation skills. In addition, our Rosehill team volunteered with Habitat for Humanity Australia’s bushfire resilience program to help homeowners better prepare for future disasters. Employees spent the day at a residence creating fire breaks and clearing gutters and vegetation that could be fire hazards.