Our History
GrainCorp was founded in 1916 as the NSW Grain Elevators Board (GEB), part of the NSW Government’s Department of Agriculture.
The GEB led the development of Australia’s bulk grain handling system. The first bulk grain elevator was built at Peak Hill, NSW, in 1918, and Australia’s first bulk grain export elevator, located in Sydney at Glebe, was commissioned in 1922.
In April 1981 the Grain Elevators Board changed its name to the Grain Handling Authority of New South Wales (GHA).
In October 1989 the GHA was corporatised, and on 30 November 1990 became the NSW Grain Corporation.
In 1996 'GrainCorp' was the first Australian bulk handler to trade grain in the Australian domestic market.
GrainCorp was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1998, and acquired Victorian based Vicgrain in 2000, Allied Mills in a joint venture with Cargill Australia in 2002 and Queensland based Grainco in 2003.
Our Grain Storage, Handling, and Ports Network
GrainCorp operates at all points along the grain supply chain, from country storage sites, through to export elevators, supplying grain to the domestic market and exporting wheat, barley and oilseeds around the world.
GrainCorp has more than 250 country elevators with a total grain storage capacity of up to 20 million tonnes, spread across a 2,700 km footprint, from Mackay in Queensland, to Portland in Victoria.
We operate seven bulk grain export elevators, serviced by up to 20 contracted trains, with the capability of hauling up to four million tonnes of grain annually.
GrainCorp also manages more than one million tonnes of road transport each year.
GrainCorp ports elevate up to five million tonnes of grain in a normal year, and up to 1.5 million tonnes of non-grain commodities per year.
GrainCorp Malt
GrainCorp is now one of the largest commercial malt producers in the world. Operations are located in
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Canada - Canada Malting Company - Montreal, Thunder Bay and Calgary,
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United States - Great Western Malting - Vancouver (WA), Pocatello (ID),
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United Kingdom - Bairds Malt - England - Witham, Grantham, Scotland - Pencaitland, Arbroath and Inverness,
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Germany - Schill Malz - Worms, Mulheim, Sangerhaussen, and Clingen,
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Australia - Barrett Burston Malting - Geelong, Burnley, Perth, Thornleigh and Pinkenba.
GrainCorp’s malt houses produce over a million tonnes of high quality specialty malts per year, for some of the world’s leading domestic and international brewers and distillers.
As well as supplying brewers and distillers in the domestic markets in Canada, the United States, England, Scotland, Germany, France and Australia, GrainCorp Malt companies export malt to Africa, South East Asia, Japan and South America.
Allied Mills
Allied Mills is a joint venture established in 2002 between Graincorp (60% ownership) and Cargill (40% ownership) and is a leading manufacturer and distributor of food ingredients and semi-finished products, with an extensive range of customers incorporating major manufacturers, retailers, franchisers, and foodservice providers.
Allied Mills has a national manufacturing and distribution footprint, and is recognised as one of Australia’s largest manufacturer and distributor of bakery premixes and flour, representing 70% share of all retail in-store bakeries (ISB) nationally and buys approximately 800,000 tonnes of grain each year.
GrainCorp plays an important role in procuring, storing, and transporting grain for Allied Mills, and coordinates rail and road transport services.
With access to diverse wheat varieties from across Australia, Allied Mills can produce flours and food ingredients that deliver value to the broad range of products produced by our customers.
Allied Mills is moving down the value chain by offering an increasingly wide range of bakery products. This will assist in meeting the growing demand in the retail and foodservice market for value added convenient bakery solutions.
Allied Mills is more than ‘just a flour miller’…. It is a company of passionate people, delivering innovative food solutions to a diverse range of customers across the Australian food industry.