The company’s origins date back to 1958 with the search for raw materials good enough to produce quality cement. Eventually, those materials were found – dead-coral sand from the Suva Harbor and silica from the Rewa River and its tributaries. Two years later, Fiji Industries Limited (FIL) was registered as a public company.

Based in Lami, just outside the capital Suva, our factory runs 24 hours a day to keep up with demand from our customers in Fiji and the Pacific. But at the forefront of production is concern for the environment and the commitment to go with it.

In 2004, FIL invested over $4m to change the process of how cement was made in Fiji. Gone are the days when cement was first made by burning locally-dredged material in a rotary kiln. FIL is now a grinding plant that processes raw materials through to the final product.

This has enabled us to provide low-cost high-quality cement and raised the bar significantly in our environmental performance. With the process change came the decommissioning of the kiln which has seen an end to carbon dioxide and dust emissions. We also no longer dredge coral sand from the reefs surrounding Suva Harbour and water run-off has stopped.

FIL implements strategies and actions plans for:

• water and resource conservation,
• energy consumption, 
• environmentally safe raw materials,
• waste minimisation,
• pollution reduction, and;
• Protecting the ecosystem that surrounds our plant.z

These measures ensure we meet all environmental standards.

Apart from this, we invest millions of dollars in capital expenditure to keep our plant efficient. Our organization’s operations are continuously monitored and regulated to achieve the highest objectives and levels of environmental awareness, standards and practice.

Such investments have paid off. In 2005, Fiji Industries Ltd won the Fiji Achievement in Business Excellence Award, a crowning achievement for us.