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James Hardie Industries Ltd. is an industrial building materials company headquartered in Ireland and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange which specialises in fibre cement products. James Hardie manufactures and develops technologies, materials and processes for the production of building materials. For over 20 years, Hardie has also operated a research and development facility devoted solely to fibre-cement technology. The company was a key player in asbestos mining and manufacturing in Australia through most of the twentieth century.〔Australian Council of Trade Unions (2007) ''James Hardie Asbestos Victims Compensation Background Facts'' (), Available from: www.actu.asn.au/Images/Dynamic/attachments/5055/James%20Hardie%20Fact%20Sheet%20080207.doc〕 Working with products containing asbestos - including the building material known as "Fibro" - caused people to develop various pleural abnormalities such as asbestosis and malignant mesothelioma.〔Handen Zeren, E., Gurmurdulu, D, Roggli, V. et al. (2000). ‘Environmental Malignant Mesothelioma in Southern Anatolia: A Study of Fifty Cases’. ''The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences'' 108(11): 1047-1050.〕 The 2009 book ''Killer Company''〔Angela Welsh. (Review: Killer Company ) ''The Walkley Foundation'', 27 October 2009.〕 and the 2012 TV docu-drama ''Devil's Dust'' are about James Hardie Industries. In May 2012 the High Court of Australia found that seven former James Hardie non-executive directors misled the stock exchange over the asbestos victims compensation fund. ==History== James Hardie immigrated to Australia in 1888 from Linlithgow, Scotland, and created a business importing oils and animal hides. Andrew Reid, also from Linlithgow, came to join Hardie in Melbourne, and became a full partner in 1895. When Hardie retired in 1911, he sold his half of the business to Reid. James Hardie Industries Ltd first listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1951. For much of the twentieth century, James Hardie was the dominant manufacturer in Australia of asbestos cement sheet and other related building products which used asbestos as a reinforcing material.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/12563/Corporate_Services_Report_Item_7_Appendix_A.pdf )〕 James Hardie was one of a number of companies involved in the mining of asbestos, and by the middle of the twentieth century had become the largest manufacturer and distributor of building products, insulation, pipes and brake linings containing it. In Australia, it ran asbestos plants in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. Working with the products containing asbestos - including the building material known as "Fibro" - caused people to develop various pleural abnormalities such as asbestosis and malignant mesothelioma.〔 In December 2001, the company shareholders unanimously voted to restructure and relocate the company in the Netherlands as a parent company. This was part of a strategy to separate the company from the stigma of its asbestos liabilities.〔Sexton, E. (2009, 14 March) 'Dust to Dust' ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' () Available from: http://business.smh.com.au/business/dust-to-dust-20090313-8xww.html〕 On 19 February 2010, James Hardie moved its corporate domicile from The Netherlands to Ireland, in a transaction designed to transform James Hardie Industries NV into an Irish Societas Europea company, and James Hardie Industries NV became James Hardie Industries SE. The final stage of the move was completed on 17 June 2010.〔http://www.ir.jameshardie.com.au/jh/corporate_governance.jsp James Hardie move to Ireland〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Hardie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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