Tollman

industrial markets. Dodson has found that businesses that are getting their products in the US, find the costs to be substantial - mainly after seeing the US dollar going against them. In turn, these companies have asked Tollman to produce product equivalents, which it has been doing, successfully, for many a customer. Big talk, but Dodson does proclaim Tollman to be probably most versa- tile chemical company in Australia in terms of the types of chemicals it can make: “There’s not a lot of small chemical companies / independently owned companies like us in Australia that can offer the services we do. There are companies that do certain things, and companies that do others, but there are none that cover the range we do. If we exited the market now, there’d be a fairly big hole on what these compa- nies can get done in Australia.” Indeed there is a lot of local demand for things that need to be made quick- ly and promptly, and where only one company in the whole country makes a certain product, or if businesses have to order their products from Chi- na, there’s always the potential for a six week lead time if not more. Hence, Tollman recently had a titanium reac- tor built in China which is on the verge of getting shipped to Australia. “This reactor means we can cut the lead time from months, to a week. That big stretch of water from here