Corporate Body
James Hardie Industries Ltd (1916 - )
- From
- 1916
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Functions
- Building or Construction Industries and Manufacturing Industry
- Location
- Sydney, New South Wales
Summary
James Hardie Industries is a Public Listed Company. The majority of the company's income is generated from non-metallic mineral product manufacturing industry. 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 from the Australian Stock Exchange 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.
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Published resources
Books
- Carroll, Brian, 'A very good business': one hundred years of James Hardie Industries Limited 1888-1988 (Sydney: James Hardie Industries, 1987), 256 pp. Details
- Haigh, Gordon, Asbestos House: the Secret History of James Hardie Industries (Carlton: Scribe Publications, 2006), 442 pp. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-551234. Details
Reviews
- Haigh, Gordon, Asbestos House: the Secret History of James Hardie Industries (2006)
McLennan, Peter, Australian Book Review, 280, (2006), 16-17. Details
See also
- 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_j.html. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 19 July 2001, Last modified: 17 June 2010
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