Penrite

In 1926, 16 year old Les Mecoles founded Penrite Oil Company from his parents’ home in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.

The first batches of oil were made on his mother's kitchen stove and delivered to service stations, milling factories and the local shipping port using his father's wheelbarrow.

After several years, Penrite again moved to Abbotsford due to further growth as Melbourne and regional Victoria grew in population and the road and railway network expanded across Australia.

In 1965, Penrite again was forced to move to nearby Brunswick East as the Abbotsford site was purchased by the Government of Victoria to make way for the newly commissioned Eastern Freeway.

The business continued to grow, but in 1979, Les Mecoles, suffering from poor health, sold the company to John and Margaret Dymond.

[11] Penrite is a signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant which must meet local and regulatory requirements to minimise any environmental impact by reducing emissions and developing safe and sustainable, production, storage and distribution methodologies.