Commonwealth Acetate of Lime Factory, Industrial heritage site in Morningside, Brisbane, Australia.

The Commonwealth Acetate of Lime Factory at 82 Colmslie Road, Morningside, is a group of brick and timber buildings erected between 1917 and 1920, laid out by chemist Auguste de Bavay around a three-storey Agitator and Cooler House, a two-storey Fermenting House, a three-storey Settling House, an Acidifier House and a two-storey Evaporator House. Hans Continental Smallgoods has run a modern factory on the southern part since the early 1970s, and the surviving original buildings serve as offices and storage.

Built between 1917 and 1920, the facility manufactured acetate of lime for ammunition production during World War I, using sugar cane products sourced locally. The material was sent to the Maribyrnong Explosives Factory in Melbourne, where it was processed into cordite for weapons.

The site's later names record its reuse: two timber demountable blocks added around 1949 served as the Colmslie Migrant Hostel, and the place was also known as the Fairmile Naval Base and HMAS Moreton, Colmslie. Since 1966 the riverfront fish markets have occupied the northern part of the original factory site.

The property sits on Colmslie Road in Morningside and remains visibly recognizable by its original industrial buildings. Visitors should note that the site operates as an active factory today, so access may be limited or require advance arrangements.

This is the only Commonwealth Arsenal factory built in Queensland before World War II, showing how early the state participated in national defense manufacturing. This distinction makes it a rare example of Australian defense history from that era.