James Cu***ng was established in Australia in 1909 - Our Purpose is to be a leading manufacturer and supplier of premium, Australian Made products to various industries and leave a legacy of positive environmental impact. James Cu***ng & Sons Pty Ltd was established in Australia in 1909 by James Cu***ng and members of his family, manufacturing Ironfounders’ Blacking using technology developed from
owning and operating similar manufacturing plants in Scotland. The company is still owned and operated by members of the Cu***ng family, and the rock and ore milling and refining plant is still located on the block of land in Western Sydney that James Cu***ng originally purchased from Auburn Real Estate Agent Jack Lang, who later became famous as NSW Premier during the Great Depression. James Cu***ng & Sons was an original supplier to Australian Iron & Steel when it established a spun pipe plant at Port Kembla, on the site of the present Bluescope Steel works. During the 1980’s, the company recognised a need to diversify the markets in which it operated, and developed new coal and carbon products to service those markets. The water treatment industry had been importing anthracite filter media in growing quantities, and there were no Australian producers of a viable equivalent. In 1984, the present Managing Director, John Cu***ng identified a High Rank Coal in NSW which possessed all the properties necessary to produce a high performance anthracite coal-type filter media, and meeting the requirements of the AWA/ANSI B100 Standard for Filtering Materials. At the same time, the Rock and Ore Milling Plant in Sydney was extended and modified to produce C&S Brand Australian Filter Coal to meet the growing market demand for this media.
