A farmer in Australia is harvesting a crop of eucalyptus for eucalyptol. the oil found in leathery leaves. the farmer sell the crop to an Australian processing company, which spends about four weeks extracting the eucalyptus.
Meanwhile. In New Jersy. Warner-Lambert(WL) partners with a distributor to buy the oil from the Australian company and transport it to WL’s Listerine manufacturing and distribution facility in Lititz, Pennsylvania. The load will arrive at Lititz about three months after the harvest.