No 6 Kiln

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/15 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

No. 6 Kiln at Kandos Cement Works. Rust has thickened across the cylindrical shell of the rotary kiln, corroded to deep ochres and brown within a lattice of structural steel and diagonal support beams. A green bucket on the sunlit concrete below gives sudden measure to the scale of the machinery overhead. The works produced Portland cement from 1916 until September 2011.

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In situ

No 6 Kiln at Kandos Cement Works, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

No 6 Kiln at Kandos Cement Works, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

No 6 Kiln at Kandos Cement Works, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: No 6 Kiln
Series: Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue: KCW-026
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 February 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/15 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Kandos, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Kandos, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

No. 6 Kiln at Kandos Cement Works is a steel cylindrical rotary kiln roughly 160 feet long, mounted at a slight downward angle on a series of steel piers. The kiln is dark from years of firing. Its insulation is wrapped in steel cladding, mostly intact, with patches of rust where moisture has worked through the seams. The drive gearing at the upper end is still in place; the cooling section at the lower end opens onto the cooler below. A walkway runs alongside the kiln so workers could check the cylinder during operation. The machine is very large for the building it sits in.

A rotary kiln is the central piece of equipment in any cement works. Limestone and clay enter at the upper end as a fine slurry or powder, are heated as they tumble down the rotating cylinder, and exit at the lower end as clinker that gets ground into cement. No. 6 Kiln at Kandos was the largest and most modern of the plant's kilns, installed in the postwar expansion. It fired for decades. When the plant closed in September 2011 the kiln was shut down for the last time. It has not turned since. The cylinder has held its shape, but the bearings have settled and the drive has not been engaged.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A massive rotary kiln stretches deep into the frame, its steel barrel dark with heat scale and chemical residue. The bore is wide enough to stand inside. Steel cradle supports hold it in place along the corridor. Latticed structural bracing lines both sides. Smaller pipework and a second, older kiln sit to the right, its surface wrapped in deteriorating insulation. Concrete dust coats the ground. Sunlight falls hard through the open framework.

Brett Patman

The series

Kandos Cement Works

2016 · 40 photographs

The town's first name was Candos, an acronym of the directors' surnames at the NSW Cement Lime and Coal Company. They bought 100 acres from local farmer John Lloyd Junior for £2,000 in 1913 and had surveyor James Dawson lay out the township. The Postmaster General ruled the name change to Kandos in 1915, and by August 1916 the kilns at the new cement works were firing.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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