Ausdecom

What Ausdecom does

Ausdecom (Australian Decommissioning Services Pty Ltd) is an Australian privately held industrial services company founded in 2013 by Jamie and Sam McKellar, operating from Laverton North, Victoria with regional offices in Brisbane and Perth and delivering projects Australia-wide. The business provides turnkey industrial decommissioning, demolition, dismantling, environmental remediation, hazardous waste management, mobile crushing, and recycling services to enterprise and government clients in oil and gas, petrochemicals, mining and smelting, automotive manufacturing, defence, ports, and utilities. Its core technology is a self-owned, specialised fleet — excavators from 0.5T to 120T including a 30-metre high-reach demolition excavator, a mobile modular crushing plant exceeding 500 tonnes per hour, two pugmills, an in-house servicing and fabrication workshop, and a NATA-accredited on-site laboratory — supplemented by proprietary engineered assets such as a remote-operated D10T dozer with a blast-absorbing shell used on nitroglycerine-contaminated soils, a custom on-site Soil Vapour Extraction system, and 3D structural modelling for engineered demolition lifts.

The company monetises services through tendered, fixed-price or schedule-of-rates project contracts with major industrial asset owners (BP, Toyota, Orica, Alcoa, Dow, BASF, Incitec Pivot, Viva Energy, Department of Defence, EPA Victoria), typically running multi-month to multi-year (Toyota Altona four years; Orica Deer Park nine years). A second revenue stream comes from the sale of recycled aggregates — crushed rock, crushed concrete, drainage aggregate, landscaping materials, and rubble, including Department of Transport Class 2, 3, and 4 products — at the Laverton North facility, where more than 500,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste are processed per annum with a 99.5% recycling rate and direct public sales via the 13ROCK number and an owned transport fleet. Mobile crushing is also deployed to third-party quarry, subdivision, and infrastructure sites, and a 50/50 joint venture with UK-based K2 Polymers (SURF Recycling Services, formed June 2023) targets offshore oil and gas subsea umbilical, riser, and flowline recycling with planned facilities in Western Australia and Victoria.

The business model is asset-heavy, project-based, and relationship-driven, with competitive advantage anchored in capital intensity (plant and equipment value exceeding $30M), ISO 45001/14001/9001 and NATA accreditations, deep multi-generational family expertise inherited from the Alex Fraser Group, and proprietary engineering assets developed on tier-one contaminated sites. Customer concentration is notable, with repeat engagements from a small number of large blue-chip industrial owners, while the project-based revenue cadence and long contract durations (multi-year) create lumpiness but also revenue visibility on awarded work.

Name

Ausdecom

Legal name

Australian Decommissioning Services Pty Ltd

Website

https://ausdecom.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Ausdecom is an Australian privately held industrial services firm delivering turnkey decommissioning, demolition, environmental remediation, and recycling for enterprise and government clients across oil and gas, petrochemicals, mining, automotive, defence, and utilities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Decommissioning and Demolition Services

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Remediation Services (56291), Waste Treatment and Disposal (5622), Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (562211)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Hazardous Waste Management (4955)

akta.pro primary industry

Concrete, Asphalt & Masonry Recycling (Crushing & Aggregate Production) (EUAIAHAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Recycling Processing (BPALADAC), Deconstruction & Salvage (Building Material Reuse) (EUAIAHAJ)

Keywords

• Industrial decommissioning services
• Demolition services
• Environmental remediation services
• Construction waste recycling
• Hazardous waste removal

Headquarters

HQ city

Melbourne

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Project-based decommissioning, demolition and remediation contracts: Major revenue stream from tendered/contracted industrial decommissioning, demolition, dismantling and remediation projects for enterprise and government clients across Australia. Typically fixed-price or schedule-of-rates project work, often multi-year and multi-stage (e.g., Toyota Altona 4 years; Orica Deer Park 9 years).
2. Sale of recycled aggregates and materials: Sale of recycled crushed rock, crushed concrete, drainage aggregates, landscaping materials and rubble (Department of Transport compliant Class 2, 3 and 4 products) from the Laverton North recycling facility, open to the public and via own transport fleet. More than 500,000 tonnes per annum processed.
3. Environmental remediation and specialised treatment services: Specialist contaminated-land services including PFAS, hydrocarbon, heavy metals, asbestos, acid sulphate soils, UXO/explosives, UST/UPSS decommissioning, and groundwater treatment — delivered as contracted project services.
4. Offshore/SURF onshore disposal services and joint-venture recycling: Onshore disposal-phase services for offshore decommissioning (subsea umbilicals, risers, flowlines) via 50/50 joint venture SURF Recycling Services with K2 Polymers; planning, quayside engineering, dismantling, recycling and waste management.
5. Mobile crushing and screening services for third-party sites: Hiring of mobile crushing units and operators for large and remote quarry and subdivision projects (10,000T to 1M+ tonnes).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Ausdecom delivers turnkey industrial decommissioning, dismantling, demolition, environmental remediation, hazardous waste removal, mobile crushing and construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling services across Australia, from project feasibility through to completion, using its own specialised fleet, in-house fabrication workshop and NATA-accredited lab. The company also sells Department of Transport-compliant recycled aggregates (crushed rock, crushed concrete, drainage aggregates, landscaping materials and rubble) from its Laverton North facility to civil construction buyers and the general public, processing more than 500,000 tonnes per annum at a 99.5% recycling rate.

Product overview

Ausdecom (Australian Decommissioning Services Pty Ltd) is an integrated industrial services provider structured around a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core platform comprises four primary service pillars: Decommissioning/Demolition Services, Environmental & Remediation Services, Recycling Services, and Plant & Equipment (excavators, attachments, crushers/screens/pugmills, skidsteers/loaders), which are mutually reinforcing — the equipment fleet enables the demolition and remediation work, and the recycling division processes the resulting materials. Underneath the Recycling Services umbrella, the company sells a specific product line of DoT-compliant recycled materials including 20mm Crushed Rock (Class 2, 3 & 4), 20mm Crushed Concrete (Class 2, 3 & 4), Recycled Type A material, Drainage Aggregates, Landscaping Materials, and Rubble. An offshore service module provides onshore disposal solutions for the offshore oil and gas decommissioning market, and through a 50/50 joint venture with K2 Polymers called SURF Recycling Services, the company extends its offering into subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines recycling. The entire operation is supported by an in-house NATA-accredited testing lab and an extensive $30M+ owned fleet, allowing turnkey delivery from project inception to completion.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Decommissioning and Demolition Services Full lifecycle industrial decommissioning and demolition services Australia-wide for enterprise and government clients, including feasibility studies, budget costing, scheduling, risk assessments, dismantling, controlled collapsing, mechanical demolition and on-site deconstruction. Operates one of the largest industrial demolition fleets in Australia with specialist demolition-spec excavators ranging from 20 to 120 tonnes and a 30m high-reach demolition machine.
• Environmental and Remediation Services Specialist environmental remediation services for sites affected by industrial activities, covering hydrocarbons, PFAS, acid sulphate soils, heavy metals, asbestos, UXO/explosives, UST/UPSS decommissioning, and contaminated water/groundwater treatment. Uses state-of-the-art treatment, stabilisation and abatement technologies including purpose-built on-site Soil Vapour Extraction and remote-operated D10T dozer with blast-absorbing shell.
• Recycling Services Construction and demolition waste recycling at the Laverton North facility, processing more than 500,000 tonnes per annum of rock, concrete, asphalt and brick into Department of Transport compliant products. Recycling facilities capable of processing 600T per hour, with 99.5% of incoming material recycled into products. Includes a NATA-approved on-site lab for product testing and two weighbridges enabling truck turnaround under 10 minutes.
• Recycled Products (Crushed Rock, Crushed Concrete, Recycled Type A, Rubble, Drainage Aggregates and Landscaping Materials) Department of Transport (formerly VicRoads) registered recycled products including 20mm Crushed Rock Class 2, 3 and 4, 20mm Crushed Concrete Class 2, 3 and 4, Recycled Type A material, Drainage Aggregates, Landscaping Materials, and Rubble (60 and 85mm). Used for road base/subbase, hardstand for slab preparation, pipe bedding, backfill and access roads. Sold direct to public at the Laverton North facility (phone 13ROCK).
• Onshore Disposal for Offshore Decommissioning Fully managed solutions for the onshore decommissioning disposal phase for offshore oil and gas installations and subsea infrastructure. Includes port and laydown facility provision, load-in preparations, dismantling, waste management, engineering for quayside load-ins, and environmental reporting and project closure reports in compliance with Commonwealth and State regulations.
• SURF Recycling Services (Joint Venture with K2 Polymers)

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.5% recycling rate at Laverton (0.5% tracked under Green Star certification)
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship — 50/50 australian joint venture, core — social procurement membership, core — industry association, strategic — offshore decommissioning ecosystem partner, strategic — environmental industry partner, strategic — flagship charity partnership, strategic — workplace mental health partner and core equipment partner.

• K2 Polymers (SURF Recycling Services joint venture)flagship — 50/50 australian joint ventureStrategic or Co-development PartnerAusdecom and K2 Polymers formed a 50/50 Australian joint venture called SURF Recycling Services to recycle subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF). The JV combines K2 Polymers' 25+ years of UK SURF recycling expertise with Ausdecom's onshore decommissioning and project management capability, targeting the Australian offshore oil & gas SURF market where disposal routes currently lead to landfill. The JV has completed a Front End Engineering & Design study for a major Australian oil & gas operator covering recycling of 144 km of flexibles, and plans state-of-the-art recycling facilities in Western Australia and at Ausdecom's Laverton North HQ, achieving up to 98% recycling capability.
• Social Traderscore — social procurement membershipGTM or Marketing PartnerMembership of Social Traders supports Ausdecom's commitment to diversity in workforce and procurement processes (social enterprise).
• Supply Nationcore — social procurement membershipGTM or Marketing PartnerSupply Nation member, reinforcing Ausdecom's commitment to diversity and inclusion in procurement and workforce.
• Civil Contractors Federation Victoria (CCF Victoria)core — industry associationGTM or Marketing PartnerCCF Victoria member; Ausdecom attends and sponsors CCF Women in Civil events. Recognised by CCF Victoria Awards 2023 for Kalimna Water Tower project.
• Demolition Association of Victoria (DAIAV)core — industry associationGTM or Marketing PartnerMember of the Demolition Association of Victoria (Australian Decommissioning Services Pty Ltd).
• Master Builders Victoria (MBAV)core — industry associationGTM or Marketing PartnerMaster Builders Victoria member.
• Centre of Decommissioning Australia (CODA)strategic — offshore decommissioning ecosystem partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with CODA, the Australian decommissioning industry body, supporting offshore and onshore decommissioning collaboration.
• Australasian Land and Groundwaterstrategic — environmental industry partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Australasian Land and Groundwater, the regional contaminated-land industry network.
• Beyond Blue (Big Blue Excavator fundraiser)strategic — flagship charity partnershipGTM or Marketing PartnerAusdecom operates a dedicated CAT 352 'Big Blue Excavator' that has raised over $7,645 for Beyond Blue mental health initiatives; 10% of revenue from the excavator in 2022 was donated to Beyond Blue.
• HALT (Hope Assistance Local Tradies)strategic — workplace mental health partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerHALT delivers Conversations for Life early suicide prevention training to Ausdecom employees and on-site visits for International Men's Day and other mental health initiatives.
• Caterpillar / William Adams CAT Laverton Branchcore equipment partnerTechnology or IntegrationEquipment dealer relationship with William Adams CAT Laverton Branch supporting delivery of the Big Blue CAT 352 excavator and ongoing fleet of CAT excavators and loaders (CAT 988, 980, 962 loaders; CAT 390F, 336 excavators).

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Liberty Industrial: Australian specialist industrial demolition, decommissioning and remediation contractor. Directly comparable to Ausdecom in target customers (oil & gas, infrastructure, defence) and service mix (decommissioning, dismantling, contaminated site remediation, recycling). Operates across Australia and has expanded internationally, making it the closest direct competitor.
• Delta Group: Major Australian demolition, environmental remediation and civil contractor with a comparable end-to-end offering (demolition, asbestos removal, remediation, recycling). Overlaps directly with Ausdecom's core service pillars and competes for the same enterprise and government tenders across Australia.
• McMahon Services: Australian industrial services contractor with demolition, remediation, asbestos abatement and civil capability. Comparable to Ausdecom in customer base (mining, oil & gas, utilities, government) and project-based delivery model, though it also operates in broader civil construction.
• ResourceCo: Australian resource recovery and recycling business that processes C&D and industrial waste into recycled products, including aggregates. Comparable to Ausdecom's Laverton North recycling and aggregate sales operation, and an overlapping customer base in civil construction.
• Hi-Quality Group: Australian demolition, environmental remediation and recycling contractor with C&D processing and recycled aggregate production. Competes directly with Ausdecom in C&I demolition and the recycled aggregates market, particularly in Victoria and NSW.

Emerging players

• Repurpose It: Victorian C&D recycling and aggregates producer with a materials recovery focus. Comparable in the recycled aggregates product line (crushed concrete, road base) but smaller in industrial demolition, putting it in adjacent rather than direct competition with Ausdecom.

Broad incumbents

• Veolia Australia and New Zealand: Global environmental services group with large-scale Australian hazardous waste treatment, remediation, and recycling operations. Overlaps with Ausdecom's environmental remediation and waste management services but offers a much broader portfolio (collections, treatment, water) rather than specialising in industrial decommissioning.
• Cleanaway Waste Management: Australia's largest waste management, recycling and industrial services company. Touches Ausdecom's space through solid and liquid waste collection, hazardous waste handling and resource recovery, but is a generalist across municipal, commercial and industrial waste rather than a focused industrial decommissioner.
• Boral: Major Australian construction materials and quarrying company, both a customer of Ausdecom's services and a competitor in aggregates supply. Comparable on the recycled aggregates and quarrying side, but operates a much broader vertically integrated building materials business.
• Holcim Australia: Global construction materials and aggregates group with significant Australian quarrying and recycling operations. Comparable to Ausdecom's recycled aggregates offering and to some C&D processing activities, though Holcim's portfolio spans cement, concrete and aggregates rather than specialist decommissioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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