James Hardie is a global building materials company and the largest global manufacturer of fiber cement products. Headquartered in Ireland, it is listed in two of the major stock exchanges in Australia and the US with a 17.17B dollar market cap. It was first established in Australia in 1888. In the beginning years, It had become famous for manufacturing and distributing building products containing asbestos. Around 1980 as it's been proved that asbestos caused severe human diseases, James Hardie had adopted a new asbestos-free fiber cement that contains wood fibers instead. 

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