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Melrose Industries plc is a British aerospace manufacturing company based in Birmingham, England. It is the parent company of GKN Aerospace. The company's shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange as a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Melrose Industries was founded in 2003 by David Roper, Christopher Miller and Simon Peckham. In terms of ...
The Hamilton Falls Power Corporation became known as the Churchill Falls Corporation in 1965 when the name of the falls was changed to commemorate former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. CF(L)Co began construction on Churchill Falls Generating Station in 1966 and on May 12, 1969, signed a power contract [2] with Hydro-Québec.
The company was founded in 1920 as a manufacturer of parking meters, trading as Fisher Limited.The name was subsequently changed to Fisher Karpark Industries ('FKI'). In 1987 it merged with Babcock International to form FKI Babcock [1] but then demerged the heavy engineering parts of Babcock again in 1989. [2]
On 1 July 2008 Melrose plc, a specialist investor in the manufacturing industry, bought FKI. [ 5 ] During the last 125 years, various Brush companies (Brush Switchgear, Brush Transformers , Brush Traction and Brush Control Gear) have existed on the Falcon Works site, but throughout this period Brush Electrical Machines Ltd manufacturing ...
The Churchill Machine Tool Co ceased trading in the early 1970s along with several other companies in the Alfred Herbert group, during a period of huge contraction of the manufacturing sector in Britain's economy. A part of the Charles Churchill & Co group became Matrix Churchill through a convoluted corporate process.
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The station cost almost a billion Canadian dollars to build in 1970. Commissioned from 1971 to 1974, it is owned and operated by the Churchill Falls Labrador Corporation Limited, a joint venture between Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (65.8%) and Hydro-Québec (34.2%). Workers at the station live in the purpose-built company town of Churchill ...
In March 2023, Melrose Industries announced that it would demerge GKN Automotive and GKN Powder Metallurgy from GKN as Dowlais Group. [3] The name selected, "Dowlais Group", was intended to evoke the Dowlais Ironworks where GKN licensed the Bessemer process, using it to produce steel, in 1865.