The Frankston Brick Company, was established in 1887 with works at the corner of Lee Street & Cranbourne Road. Thomas Ritchie, who established a chain of produce stores that still operates as Ritchie's Supermarkets
The company used the Frankston pier for shipping bricks to Melbourne and receiving firewood for their brick kilns on the foreshore. They excavated sand from a nearby quarry for the manufacture of lime silica bricks in the 1950s.
The company was run by Colortone Holdings from 1932 to 1961. Calsil, a Perth based company specialising in calcium silica bricks, acquired Colortone in 1966 and expanded the works, then in 1988 Boral bought out Calsil.