A Melbourne company has sought to reassure Mayfield residents that a proposed $40 million cement plant on the former BHP steelworks site will be clean and safe.
Independent Cement and Lime met with residents yesterday to discuss its plans to build a plant near the old BHP wharf, producing up to 170,000 tonnes of cement products annually.
CEO Michael Byrne says an environmental assessment should be complete in the next few days, but the proposal is still in its early stages.
"It's part of a long process in terms of getting a development accepted by the residents, customers and in fact our own organisation," he said.
"We're basically telling the residents it's a very, very clean process, and there's a great deal of experience in Melbourne, where we are only a few kilometres from the CBD."
Mr Byrne says it will be much smaller than the Victorian plant, which has no negative environmental impacts.
"Our experience tells us that if we are able to show and convince the residents, it makes life easy for everybody," he said.
"And gives them a sense of security that we're not doing anything at all of a disturbing nature, whether it be noise, dust or any of those issues."
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