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PRODUCT INNOVATION and design
Brickworks partners with architects and builders to create innovative products and support the construction of highly efficient homes Our goal is to remain Australia’s leading building products company. It is therefore critical that Brickworks continually strives to improve quality and product integrity, while investing in product innovation. Throughout the year, Brickworks’ Australian operations formed a crossfunctional, national technical team and conducted a strategic review of Research, Development and Quality functions. The review identified opportunities for alignment and collaboration across Brickworks Building Products to help create unique products with unrivalled quality. We have improved our monitoring and tracking of a range of quality indicators, including waste and reparations. As a result, our teams have focussed on quality projects that have shown substantial improvements in customer satisfaction. Brickworks is a market leader in creating premium and fashionable building products. Throughout the year we released many new products to the market.
Austral Bricks has now introduced new ranges of locally manufactured and imported specialty products, including new products to the Access range; Melbourne Series and San Selmo Reclaimed ranges. Innovation of products has resulted from access to new clay resources across the group. Performance optimisation has occurred through unique formulations and firing techniques, leveraging our state of the art manufacturing plants. This combination of traditional materials with new manufacturing technology has combined to deliver our unique range of new high-quality finishes. Austral Masonry’s acquisition of Urbanstone in FY18 has significantly expanded our offering of premium stone and concrete paving products for both residential and commercial applications. This offering includes a range of formats, colours and finishes, using natural stone and stone aggregate for beautiful, tactile, durable and luxurious speciality engineered products. A further addition to our existing GB Masonry offering is the Breeze Block range in Nickel, Pewter and Porcelain stone aggregate finishes.
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Case Study
SMART CORE DESIGN Verticore is one our most efficient bricks, currently manufactured in Bellevue, WA. The double-course brick boasts a 40–45% core void and weighs an average of 4.8kg.
