Ovaltine Factory, Tasmania

Hansen Yuncken make its first expansion interstate in 1937, commencing building the T&G Office in Hobart. The company established a branch office in that building once it was completed. In 1941, Hansen Yuncken was contracted to build the Ovaltine factory for Wenden & Co. at Spreyton, south of Devonport.

While the four storey factory and its tall chimney were built using traditional materials and methods – brick and concrete, timber hoists, frames and scaffolds – it represented Hansen Yuncken’s embrace of new transport technologies which enabled it to take on projects in other states that could be administered from the head office in Melbourne.