CSR Limited is a major Australia

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n industrial company, producing aluminium

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 and building products. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange

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. In 2009, it has approximately 10,000 employees and during a period of a major cyclical downturn the company made an after-tax profit of A$

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134 million on sales of A$3,500 million. The company has a diversified shareholding with predominantly Australian fund managers and retail owners.

Founded in Sydney in 1855 as the Colonial Sugar Refining company, the company first began refining imported raw sugar, expanding into the Melbourne market in the 1870s.