The chemical company at the centre of two industrial fires in Melbourne’s west, including one that left a worker dead, has collapsed owing creditors more than $5.3 million.
Reports from liquidator SV Partners into the failed ACB Group suggest the site of its factory remains an ongoing fire hazard, stating the EPA advised it posed “significant risk to human health and the environment”.
The first fire at the Derrimut site in 2023 killed a 44-year-old factory worker, while the second in July last year destroyed the company’s factory, sending a cloud of toxic smoke into the air and forcing residents in nearby suburbs inside for days.
Liquidator’s reports also reveal the suspected causes of the two fires, and a previously unreported threat to a…
