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08 July 2025 WesCEF Employee Milestones – Barney’s 20 years with WesCEF
Twenty years ago, Barney Jones, started with Wesfarmers. Now as the General Manager of Sodium Cyanide and AV/Modwood, Barney shares how it all started, some highlights and challenges he’s experienced and some advice for team members, innovators and those aspiring leaders. Barney started with WesCEF in 2010, after spending five years with the Wesfarmers’ Business […]
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23 June 2025 WesCEF Women in Engineering
This year’s International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) celebrates the theme together we engineer – a powerful reminder of the vital contributions women engineers make every day across the globe. To explore this theme, we asked two of our female engineers to share reflections about their career journeys so far. Michelle Gachuhi, a Graduate Electrical […]
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07 May 2025 WesCEF achieves 98 per cent reduction in plant emissions
Wesfarmers Chemicals Energy and Fertilisers (WesCEF) has taken a major step in its journey towards net zero with the installation of advanced technology that will virtually eliminate emissions from its newest Nitric Acid Ammonium Nitrate (NAAN) plant. Today, the Premier of Western Australia, the Hon Roger Cook MLA, visited Kwinana to officially celebrate the milestone, […]
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17 April 2025 WesCEF Employee Milestones – Keith’s 35 years with CSBP.
For Keith Gundill, Senior Account Manager – Nutrition and Sales for CSBP in Cranbrook, it’s the people, culture and opportunity to be part of something that makes a real impact that has kept him motivated throughout his 35 years with the company. Here, Keith reflects on some of the changes and highlights of his career […]
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13 March 2025 WesCEF Employee Milestones – Graham’s 20 years with WesCEF.
This month, Graham Preston, ERP Senior Technology Manager, reaches a milestone tenure of 20 years with WesCEF. Graham’s journey with then-called Wesfarmers Energy started from a consultancy point of view, coming on board as a project manager for Oracle Consulting in 2002. During this time, he implemented the Oracle e-Business Suite for the division and […]
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26 February 2025 CSBP places Kwinana Superphosphate Manufacturing Plant into care and maintenance
CSBP Fertilisers today announced that it will place its Superphosphate (SSP) Manufacturing Plant, located at its Kwinana facility south of Perth, into care and maintenance. The decision comes as a result of long-term decline in market demand for SSP as growers continue to reduce livestock numbers (particularly sheep), combined with increasing competition from overseas suppliers […]
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04 February 2025 Australian Gold Reagents to expand sodium cyanide plant
Australian Gold Reagents’ (AGR) Board has made a final investment decision to proceed with the expansion of its sodium cyanide production facility in Kwinana, Western Australia, positioning AGR as one of the world’s largest sodium cyanide producers for the gold mining industry. AGR General Manager Barney Jones said the expansion would enable the business to […]
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21 January 2025 WesCEF Employee Milestones – Michael’s 35 years with WesCEF.
This month Michael Rodriguez, Manager of Engineering at Covalent, reaches a milestone 35 years with WesCEF. Michael gave us some insight into his time with WesCEF, which has allowed him to see the evolution of WesCEF and its businesses from when he first started in 1990. “My first job after studying Chemical Engineering at Curtin […]
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21 January 2025 WesCEF Employee Milestones – Vince Barrett’s recap of 40 years with CSBP Fertilisers.
When and how did you first start at WesCEF? I was studying accounting at Curtin University when CSBP interviewed several third year students and I was offered an Assistant Accountant role. So, I had a job before I’d finished my degree! What roles have you had with the company over the years? Over the forty […]
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21 January 2025 WesCEF Employee Milestones – Steve Hall retires after 41 years with CSBP Fertilisers.
Steve wrapped up his time at WesCEF this week, retiring after 41 years with CSBP Fertilisers. Back in 1983 when Fertilisers was offering fixed term, seasonal work within its Despatch Operations, Steve took advantage of the contract work, before joining as a fulltime employee in 1985. Initially Steve cleaned rail trucks preparing them for loading […]
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