Corporate Body

Rocla Industries Limited (1920 - )

From
1920
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Functions
Manufacturing industry
Website
http://www.rocla.com.au
Reference No
ABN 97 009 643 672
Location
6 Thomas Street, Chatswood New South Wales, Australia 2067

Summary

Rocla Industries Limited began as a small Australian reinforced concrete business in 1920. The company has grown over the intervening years and in 2001 could boast a total of 69 manufacturing facilities in Australia alone.

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  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_r.html. Details
  • Lewis, Miles ed., Two hundred years of concrete in Australia (North Sydney: Concrete Institute of Australia, 1988), 137 pp. 'Rocla Pipes Ltd.', pp.90, 116. Details

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