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06 May 2026 Meet the communities we’re supporting this year
We’re thrilled to share our WesCEF Community Grants recipients for 2026! Through our FY26 WesCEF Community Grants, we are pleased to award across five local organisations. Congratulations to this year’s recipients: Gilmore College, Orelia Primary School, Naragebup Rockingham Regional Environment Centre, Native Plants WA and Ngalla Yorga Waangkan Aboriginal Corporation. WesCEF has been part of the local Kwinana and Rockingham region for more than 80 years through our CSBP and Kleenheat businesses. Being a responsible industry member […]
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29 March 2026 From systems to solutions: Rodney Hee’s 30 years at WesCEF
Building WesCEF’s IT capabilities and strong relationships across the business have been the most rewarding parts of ERP Applications Architect, Rodney Hee’s 30 years with the business. Starting out as a Network/Systems Administrator at CSBP in 1996, Rodney has had a number of roles over the years and has been involved with numerous IT projects […]
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10 March 2026 A passion for safety and people drives Peter Hein’s 30 years with the business
CSBP Senior Process Engineer, Peter Hein had an explosive start with WesCEF 30 years ago, when he joined Dyno Wesfarmers, CSBP’s explosives joint venture in Sydney. It was a role that saw him working on an ammonium nitrate plant in the Philippines and exploring expansion opportunities across the Asia-Pacific region, before transferring to Kwinana to […]
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23 February 2026 Paul Irvine clocks up 40 years with CSBP
When CSBP Planner, Paul Irvine, started with CSBP 40 years ago, he was a fresh faced 16 year old whose Mum had to drive him to work. A lot’s changed since then and Paul recently reflected on his incredible career. “In Year 11, I’d had enough of school, so I applied for a few apprenticeships; […]
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05 February 2026 Community groups invited to apply for WesCEF grants
Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy and Fertilisers (WesCEF) is offering grants of up to $5,000 to not-for-profit groups in Kwinana and Rockingham to deliver Aboriginal community engagement, environmental sustainability, and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education initiatives. Applications for the WesCEF Community Grants Program are open until 3 March 2026 and community groups, schools and other […]
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23 January 2026 Andy retires after almost 20 years as WesCEF’s Training and Competence Specialist.
Back in 2007 Andy Raxworthy was providing safety induction training particularly for heights, confined spaces and gas testing to CSBP Chemicals and Fertilisers teams as an external contractor, when the business moved to an in-house training model. In late 2008, when the business moved to an in-house training model, Andy applied for and was successful […]
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02 January 2026 WesCEF Employee Milestones – Lisa’s 30 years with WesCEF
It’d be fair to say, that Senior Health & Safety Advisor, Lisa Moore, is well known as being the warm and friendly ‘face of safety and wellness at WesCEF’. But it’s likely that many aren’t aware of how Lisa started out with WesCEF, 30 years ago or just how much she has contributed to, in […]
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06 November 2025 AGR’s Sodium Cyanide Plant Expansion Project moves from engineering into construction
Last week the Sodium Cyanide (SCN) Plant Expansion project team achieved an early milestone in the construction phase of the project after only recently completing the engineering phase of the project – a huge milestone in itself. “The project is focused on debottlenecking and modernising the existing plant and improving critical infrastructure, all while maintaining […]
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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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