How it started
History
The site was established in 1941 during World War II to manufacture aspirin and sulfa drugs. For most of its life the site has been owned and operated by the Monsanto Company Corporation. In 1988 Monsanto sold all of its Australian non-agricultural operations to Consolidated Press Holdings and Chemplex Australia Ltd was created.
In 1993 Consolidated Press Holdings and Huntsman Chemical Corporation established the present joint venture partnership i.e. Huntsman Chemical Company of Australia Pty Ltd. The plant was shut down in December 2009 with the polyester business sold to Nuplex. Plant buildings and manufacturing facilities were demolished in 2011. Pelligra purchased the vacated plant site in 2018 to build a business park.
From Wikipedia’s article on Huntsman, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2