In , convalescing from illness, he took his wife on a seven-month trip through Britain, Europe and North America, where he inspected tanneries with Melbourne businessmen Squire Kennon and Herbert Burgess. Having secured new agencies for advanced American machinery, chemicals and dyestuffs, he returned with his health restored, and with a trial shipment of a new type of roofing and lining slate, made by the French Fibro-Ciment Co.
Despite its fragility, fibro-cement sheeting made from cement and asbestos proved popular because of its resistance to heat extremes, ants and termites. Among the firm's earliest Melbourne customers was the Victorian Railways, which built linesmen's huts and roofed the new Spencer Street Railway Station—a 'temporary solution' that lasted until the s—with fibro-cement.
Bald, with a neat, ginger beard, Hardie had a rather severe appearance. The family's homes, successively at Ascot Vale, Hawthorn, Brighton and East Malvern, were named Lithgae or Lithca, diminutives of Linlithgow, his birthplace, which he again visited in during a second world trip with Clara.
In retirement he continued as honorary treasurer of the master tanners' association, which honoured him with a life membership in Hardie died of arteriosclerotic heart disease on 20 November , while visiting Pine Farm, which he had established for his son at Poowong North, Gippsland. Key to this effort is our dedication to our customers, market driven innovation, an inclusive and empowering company culture, and an unwavering commitment to our Zero Harm safety initiative.
While operating with a global mindset, we put great care into how our business impacts the local communities in which we operate and serve by sourcing locally, employing locally and delivering locally. Our business is fast-paced, and our people are smart in the way we solve problems, driven in our pursuit of results, and real in the way we build relationships and work together.
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