Who are we?  

Boral is the largest vertically integrated construction materials company in Australia. Our network includes prized quarry and cement infrastructure, bitumen, construction materials recycling, asphalt and concrete batching operations. We have built a reputation of being a responsible and respected operator.  

We employ about 7,500 employees and contractors across our operations that span more than 360 sites nation-wide.  

For 80 years we’ve been building something great in Australia - rarely a day goes by that you wouldn’t pass one of our sites or trucks, enter a building, use a road, bridge, tunnel, footpath or other critical infrastructure that our people and products have helped enable.  

Our operations in the region  

The Boral Montrose Quarry has provided the foundations for development and growth across the greater Melbourne metropolitan area for almost 70 years. A prime source of hard rock, the Montrose Quarry is located 32 kilometres east of the Melbourne CBD. 

The 82.5 hectare site incorporates the quarry pit and processing area, the operations of both the Boral Montrose asphalt and concrete plants, and buffer zones which include examples of remnant eastern and southern forest. 

The quarry was first established in 1947 under permit no. E/47, issued under the Lilydale Planning Scheme. The quarry also operated under an Extractive Industry Work Authority 100 (WA100), issued under the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act 1990. This allows the operation of extractive activities at the site.  Montrose Quarry and adjoining Boral-owned land is a Special Use Zone (Extractive Industries) under State planning provisions.

Access to the site from Melbourne is via Fussell Road, off Canterbury Road. The operations are located in the foothills of Mt Dandenong, between the suburbs of Montrose and Kilsyth, adjacent to Canterbury Rd. 

Major road projects have been supported from the Montrose Quarry given its accessible location. Early completion of the EastLink was made possible through the supply of all concrete aggregates from Montrose, as well as half the project’s asphalt aggregate requirements and a significant proportion of road base materials. 

 Other projects supplied with concrete aggregates from Montrose include:

• Albert Park redevelopment 
• O'Shanassy dam remedial works zone filter materials 
• South Eastern Freeway grade separation (Burke Road to Toorak Road), Eastern Freeway extension (Doncaster Rd Interchange), Eastern Freeway extension (Blackburn Rd to Springvale Rd), Ringwood By-pass, Eastern Freeway (Springvale Road to Park Road), 
• Heritage Golf Course development 
• Lysterfield Lake dam works 
• Eastland Shopping Centre redevelopment, Knox City Shopping Complex 
• The Melbourne Aquarium.

Through our integrated Victorian operations, spanning hard rock quarries with recycling capacity, downstream concrete batching and asphalt manufacturing plants, we have provided the essential raw and manufactured construction materials needed to build critical urban infrastructure to support the City’s continued growth including motorways, roads, bridges, hospitals, rail, along with the delivery of a range of residential housing.  

Boral's Montrose Quarry has supplied more than 63 million tonnes of quarry construction materials to the Victorian building and construction industry – a major economic pillar of the state.