Tollman

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.