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Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited Guide to Records

Listed by Barbara Cytowicz, Ann McCarthy, Gavan McCarthy, Michael Jones, Rachel Tropea

This is a guide to a substantive collection of records assembled by Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd), a joint venture between Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand Limited, and BASF Australia Limited. PMA Ltd operated a pigments plant at Laverton, Victoria, from 1970 until 1991. The collection includes files, publications, photographs and colour samples. [Details]

About the records
Provenance - creators and former custodians
Series list and summary descriptions
Inventory listing by series
- Series 1 - Early Records
- Series 2 - Plant Construction And Operation - Material On Display
- Series 3 - Photographs of Plant Construction, Staff And Factory Operations
- Series 4 - Alan Barlee's Files
- Series 5 - Management - Development, and Research and Development Files
- Series 6 - Miscellaneous Management and Administrative Files
- Series 7 - Correspondence Files
- Series 8 - Visit Reports - Files
- Series 9 - Overseas Visit Reports and Papers
- Series 10 - Rob Thomas and Kerry Hewitt - Superintendent Files
- Series 11 - Derek W. Richards - Management and Supervision Course Notes
- Series 12 - Colour Slides
- Series 13 - Production and Operations Records - General
- Series 14 - Authority to Dispatch Forms
- Series 15 - Minutes of Meetings
- Series 16 - Management Committee Meeting Minutes, and Other Papers
- Series 17 - Meeting Records - Production Copy
- Series 18 - Monthly Reports
- Series 19 - Budget Production Costs - ICI Dyestuffs Division
- Series 20 - Production Costs - ICI Dyestuffs Division
- Series 21 - Profit Plans
- Series 22 - Production Planning and Financial Records - Development Copy
- Series 23 - Staff Suggestions, Social Club, Bonus Schemes, Credit Union, Miscellaneous
- Series 24 - Staff Matters, Awards, Press Cuttings, Orders, Stores, and Other Papers
- Series 25 - Staff Training and Safety Information
- Series 26 - Safety Records - Operations files
- Series 27 - Safety and Job Procedure Training, and Other Safety Records
- Series 28 - Emergency Procedures, Guides, Insurance records
- Series 29 - Hazard Tests for Materials
- Series 30 - ICIANZ Safety Brochures
- Series 31 - ICI Safetygraphs (held by Museum Victoria)
- Series 32 - ICI handbooks, NSCA posters
- Series 33 - Industrial Data Sheets: Artificial Lighting
- Series 34 - Technical References
- Series 35 - Technical Conferences
- Series 36 - Technical Information
- Series 37 - Technical Tests and Complaints
- Series 38 - Customer Complaints
- Series 39 - Laboratory Notebooks (Miscellaneous)
- Series 40 - Laboratory Notebooks (Derek W. Richards)
- Series 41 - Lance E. Rowley's Notebooks
- Series 42 - Analysis Books
- Series 43 - Training Notebooks
- Series 44 - Training Materials
- Series 45 - Development, and Research and Development - Technical Files
- Series 46 - Improved Quality of Benzidine Yellow - Research Project
- Series 47 - Development Reports
- Series 48 - Results of Laboratory Testing of Fanal Pink and Fanal Blue
- Series 49 - Photomicrographs of Dispersed Paints
- Series 50 - Colourist's Records
- Series 51 - Blending Records
- Series 52 - Blend Cards
- Series 53 - Blend Sample Cards
- Series 54 - BASF Blend Sample Sheets
- Series 55 - Blend Sequence Numbers for Azo and Monastral Blue
- Series 56 - WIP Stock Cards
- Series 57 - Process Information/Operating Instructions
- Series 58 - Production Efficiency Sheets
- Series 59 - Batch Sheets
- Series 60 - Laboratory Preparations/Procedures - Reference Manuals
- Series 61 - Acid Treatment Plant
- Series 62 - Plant Logs
- Series 63 - Computer Print-outs
- Series 64 - Photographs and Display Materials
- Series 65 - Pigment Industry Information
- Series 66 - Effluent Monitoring Log
- Series 67 - Effluent from Gypsum Plant
Gallery
Index
Search
These records are managed by the State Library of Victoria. All queries relating to access should be made to the Manuscript Librarian quoting MS 13626 and the required inventory identifier(s).

Published by the The University of Melbourne, eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, December 2008
Listed by Barbara Cytowicz, Ann McCarthy, Gavan McCarthy, Michael Jones, Rachel Tropea
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Updated 30 March 2009
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/pigm/pma.htm

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