Editing CSR Limited (section)

{{Short description|Australian building products company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = CSR Limited
| logo = [[Image:Csr logo.png|CSR Limited logo]]
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| genre = 
| founded = {{Start date and age|1855}} in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]]
| founder = 
| location_city = [[North Ryde, New South Wales]]
| location_country = [[Australia]]
| location = <!-- this parameter modifies "Headquarters" -->
| key_people = {{unbulleted list|Paul Dalton <small>(CEO)</small>}}
| area_served = Australia, New Zealand, United States
| industry = Building materials
| products = Plasterboard, bricks, insulation, aluminium
| services = Construction
| revenue = {{profit}} {{A$|2.32 billion}} (2019)<ref>{{cite web|title=CSR Financial Results|url=http://www.csr.com.au/Investor-Centre-and-News/Annual-Meetings-and-Reports/Annual%20Report%202012/sites/default/files/Annual_Report_2014.pdf|publisher=Csr.com.au|access-date=2015-05-09|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323164704/http://www.csr.com.au/Investor-Centre-and-News/Annual-Meetings-and-Reports/Annual%20Report%202012/sites/default/files/Annual_Report_2014.pdf|archive-date=23 March 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
| operating_income = {{profit}} {{A$|265 million}} (2019)
| net_income = {{profit}} {{A$|146 million}} (2021)
| num_employees = ~3,000 (2021)
| parent = [[Saint-Gobain | Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A.]]
| divisions = 
| subsid = 
| owner = 
| slogan = 
| homepage = {{url|https://csr.com.au}}
| dissolved = 
| footnotes = 
}}

'''CSR Pty Ltd''' is a major [[Australia]]n industrial company, producing building products and has a 25% share in the [[Tomago aluminium smelter]] located near [[Newcastle, New South Wales]]. It is a subsidiary of [[Saint-Gobain | Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A.]] In 2021, it had over 3,000 employees and reported an after-tax profit of $146 million. The group's corporate headquarters is in [[North Ryde]], Sydney.

Founded in Sydney in 1855 as the '''Colonial Sugar Refining Company''' at the [[Old Sugarmill]], the company expanded into milling cane in [[Queensland]] and [[Colonial Sugar Refining Company (Fiji)|Fiji]] from the 1870s. It quickly became the most important miller and refiner in [[Australasia]], with a virtual monopoly on Queensland and Fiji sugar production up to, respectively, 1989 and 1972. It also sold by-products of the [[sugar industry]], from [[molasses]] to [[ethanol]]. In 2010, CSR sold its sugar and ethanol business, which had been given the name Sucrogen in 2009, to the Singaporean company [[Wilmar International|Wilmar]]. As of 2015, the business is known as [[Wilmar Sugar]].

The company began to diversify into building products as early as 1942, with the construction of a plaster mill in Sydney, and in 1947 the company began manufacturing [[plasterboard]]. It acquired Bradford Insulation in 1959, which produced heat insulation materials for buildings, and currently has a substantial share of the insulation market in Australia and Asia. The company also produces fibre cement sheeting, aerated concrete products, bricks, permanent formwork for walls and systems to support plasterboard construction through [[Rondo]], a joint venture with [[Boral]]. It spun off its interests in heavy building products to a separate listed company, [[Rinker Group]], in 2003. In 2007, CSR established the [[Viridian]] glass company which it sold in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-06-29|title=CSR to buy Pilkington Australasia for $690m|url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/csr-to-buy-pilkington-australasia-for-690m-20070629-gdqi6v.html|access-date=2020-09-29|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|archive-date=11 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811050804/https://www.smh.com.au/business/csr-to-buy-pilkington-australasia-for-690m-20070629-gdqi6v.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

French multinational [[Saint-Gobain]] acquired CSR for {{AUD|4.5|link=yes}}{{nbsp}}billion ({{USD|2.95}}{{nbsp}}billion) in 2024.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/frances-saint-gobain-strikes-agreement-buy-australias-csr-2024-02-26/ |title=France's Saint-Gobain strikes agreement to buy Australia's CSR |date=26 February 2024 |publisher=Reuters}}</ref>