ABOUT CSR

This web-based facts book is aimed to help give an understanding of the CSR group. It supplements other information available on this site, including the CSR Annual Report and other information for shareholders.

CSR Limited (CSR) is one of Australia’s leading manufacturing companies with operations throughout Australia as well as in Asia and New Zealand. Through its three principal businesses, CSR is a leading supplier of building products and sugar and holds an effective 25% interest in the Tomago aluminium smelter.  CSR is also developing a number of former industrial sites for future land sales. Each of the CSR group’s businesses has leading or established positions in its target markets. Originally founded in 1855 as a sugar company, CSR is one of Australia’s oldest companies, with a proven record of consistent returns and strong cash flow.

Within Building Products, CSR is a leading supplier to the construction industry - supported by a nationwide distribution network. CSR manufactures and supplies a wide range of building products including Gyprock™ plasterboard, Cemintel™ fibre cement, PGH™ bricks, Monier™ rooftiles, Bradford™ insulation and Viridian™ glass with 35 wholly owned or majority owned manufacturing plants in Australia and operations in New Zealand and Asia.

CSR's Sugar and Renewable Energy company, Sucrogen, is Australia’s largest sugar producer. Sucrogen has seven mills located in some of Australia’s most productive sugarcane regions. Sucrogen also owns 75% of joint venture interests in sugar refining in Australia and New Zealand and is a major Australian BioEthanol producer. 

In Aluminium, the Tomago smelter is majority-owned by Rio Tinto Alcan and is Australia’s second largest smelting operation.