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James Hardie Industries plc is a global building materials company and the largest global manufacturer of fibre cement products. Headquartered in Ireland, it is a dual-listed company, being listed on the Australian and New York Stock Exchanges.
The company acquired James Hardie Irrigation in 1996, Exmark Manufacturing in 1997, Hayter in 2005, Rain Master Irrigation Systems, and Turf Guard Wireless Monitoring Technology in 2007. In 2007, almost 70 percent of the company's sales came from professional markets, versus one-third in 1990.
James Hardie is an Australian manufacturer of construction materials best known for its Hardie Board fiber-cement house siding. The company earned $0.40 in the quarter on revenue of $1 billion, or ...
Predominantly manufactured and sold by James Hardie until the mid-1980s, fibro in all its forms was a popular building material, largely due to its durability. The reinforcing fibres used in the product were almost always asbestos. James Hardie and Wunderlich float ready for the Victory Day procession in Brisbane, 1946
James Hardie Gypsum eventually purchased the mine, and expanded operations there in 1998. It had 150 employees by the end of the decade. [12] In 1999, James Hardie put 2,700 acres of its mine land up for sale, at a price of $45 million. [13] In 2002, BPB agreed to purchase James Hardie's gypsum factory, located at the bottom of Blue Diamond Hill.
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James Hardie Industries is a building materials company specializing in fiber cement siding. James Hardie may also refer to: James Keir Hardie (1856–1915), founding member and first leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom; James Hardie (architect) (died 1889), American architect; James Allen Hardie (1823–1876), American soldier
Bernard Douglas Banton AM (13 October 1946 – 27 November 2007) was an Australian builder and, later, social justice campaigner for asbestos-related diseases.He was the widely recognised face of the legal and political campaign to achieve compensation for the many sufferers of asbestos-related conditions, which they contracted after either working for the company James Hardie or being exposed ...