A001157
revised
AU-VU:EOAS
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
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English
AACR2
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
Corporate Body
created
2001-07-19
human
Ailie Smith
updated
2025-11-05
human
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001157b.htm
corporateBody
James Hardie and Co Pty Ltd
AACR2
1937
c. 1979
Start Place
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Location
Camellia, New South Wales
Building or Construction Industries
Manufacturing Industry
Established in 1937, James Hardie and Co Pty Ltd manufactured fibre cement building products and asbestos cement pipes. The company went on to be one of Australia's biggest producers of asbestos. The company changed its name to James Hardie Asbestos Limited and then James Hardie Industries. In 2001 the company delisted and moved to the Netherlands after a series of asbestos-related court actions taken against the company. It still has major business operations in the USA.
Trove
'James Hardie and Co Pty Ltd', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
James Hardie and Co Pty Ltd
Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
Journal Article: A short history of fibro-cement in Australia
Arthur, Ian
A short history of fibro-cement in Australia
2011
ASHET news
4
3
4-6
Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Technology in Australia 1788-1988
Online
Melbourne
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
2000