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Business View Oceania - October/November 2017
The history of Tollman
Established in 2002, Dodson himself
founded the company. The story goes
that Dodson was working for an exist-
ing chemical business that decided to
shut up shop. Seizing the opportunity,
he decided to rent part of the facility
that was being vacated, and contin-
ued on with one of the contracts that
was also being vacated. He negotiated
a 500 tonne chemical creation deal,
rented some equipment, and off he
went.
“I worked on getting some more
business over the next few years,
and eventually built my own facility in
2003 when I couldn’t rent that one any
longer,” says Dodson.
Of course, at the beginning, the busi-
Malcolm Dodson
M
anaging
D
irector of
T
ollman
P
ty
L
td
Malcolm Dodson is a Fitter
and Turner with a Graduate Di-
ploma of Business (Monash
University). Worked as a Main-
tenance Fitter and subse-
quently Personnel Of fice for
H.J. Heinz Co. for 17 years.
Moved to Dollar Sweets as Pro-
duction Supervisor and then
to Operations Manager for 5
years. In 2000 was appoint-
ed to Factory Manager – VSP
Industries a Toll manufacturer
to the Chemical Industry. Af ter
the closing of that factory Mal -
colm built his own manufactur-
ing plant and commented Toll-
man Pty Ltd in 2002. Today is
the Managing Director of Toll-
man Pty Ltd with 15 employ-
ees making Chemicals for In-
dustrial, Paper, Personal Care,
Mining and Agriculture.