Corporate Body

Taig Eucalyptus Company (1960s - ?)

From: 1960s
Arnold, Victoria, Australia
Functions: Chemical Industries

Summary

The Taig family established one of the first commercial distilleries of eucalyptus oil in northern Victoria in the mid 1960s. In 2012, the company appears to have ceased.

Timeline

1890s - 1960? McKean's Eucalyptus Works
1960s - ? Taig Eucalyptus Company

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Resources

McFarlane, Sonia, Members of the Taig family interviewed by Sonia McFarlane. Australian Story Archives - Transcript., Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 20 May 1999, http://www.abc.net.au/austory/series4/9914text.htm. Details
Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1499531. Details
Gordon and Avor Taig and sons Geoff and Peter interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the People's forest oral history project., 1993. http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2976360. Details

Christine Moje

Created: 11 July 2012, Last modified: 8 January 2014

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