Ongoing Operations and Projects by Industry

Heavy Manufacturing

 

Shoalhaven Paper Mill

Silcar provides maintenance services for the Nippon Paper specialty paper Shoalhaven Mill.

Western Port Steel Mill Maintenance

Silcar Provides mchanical and electrical maintenace for the BlueScope Steel Limited 1.5 million tonne per year capacity Western Port steel strip mill.

High Voltage Technical Services

The High Voltage Technical Services Group (HVTS) provides comprehensive testing and diagnostic services for both primary plants and secondary systems, with a focus on predictive and preventative maintenance to optimise productivity and reliability of high voltage assets.

Mining

Yallourn Mine

Silcar provides mechanical and electrical maintenance services in an Allicance with RTL and TRUenergy for the 18 million tonne per year Yallourn brown coal mine

Power Generation

Yallourn Power Station

As part of an Alliance with TRUenergy, Silcar provides mechanicl and electrial maintenance services along with major outage execution services as part of the 1,500 megawatt brown coal fired Yallourn Power Station.

Rio Tinto Alcan Yarwun

The cogeneration facility is based on an Alstom 13E2 gas turbine and HRSG, generating approximately 160MW of electrical power and 300 tonnes/hr of steam. Steam generation can be augmented with duct firing installed in the HRSG inlet duct. The facility will provide steam and electricity to the refinery, with surplus electricity being sold into the National Electricity Market.

Telecommunications

Customer Wideband Services

The wideband scope of works includes the provision of high speed data services (2Mbit/s and above) to Telstra’s wholesale, business and corporate customers.  These data services include ISDN, ethernet, DDN and wholesale transmission.

Access and Associated Services

Silcar via its Communications business unit is a prime contractor to Telstra for Access and Associated Services in its customer access network

Inter-ExchangeBackhaul Network

The IEN scope of works includes the design and construction of IEN or backhaul fibre cable routes in metropolitan and country areas of VIC/NSW/QLD.  The scope also includes providing significant Customer Access Network (CAN) fibre and Transport fibre cables

3G Wireless (Mobiles) Site Make Ready

The purpose of the project is to provide mobiles infrastructure to increase the capacity and improve the performance of Telstra’s NEXTG & 3GIS Mobile Networks.
The work involves the construction of new sites such as greenfield, rooftops and co-locations as well as the design and construction of special events and/or the augmentation of existing sites, including sectorisations, expansions and tower upgrades across Australia.

Sentinar Joint Venture

Sentinar provides telecommunications support service using its highly skilled field workforce to deliver DC, emergency AC power requirements and Facilities Management Services at Telstra’s exchanges.
Sentinar is a joint venture with Transfield Services specifically created to deliver Telstra's needs.