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Nobel Industries can refer to: Nobel Industries (Scotland) - A company established by Alfred Nobel in Scotland and merged into Imperial Chemical Industries in 1927;
Nobel Industries Limited was founded in 1870 by Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel for the production of the new explosive dynamite in the United Kingdom. The factory was overseen and run by George McRoberts. [1] McRoberts and John Downie raised the £24,000 needed to found the company rather than Nobel himself. [2]
In 1994 Akzo and Nobel Industries agreed to merge, forming Akzo Nobel, with the new combined entity having 20 business entities a number of divestments were made: Nobel Chemicals, Nobel Biotech and Spectra-Physics. In 1995 the PET resins business was sold to Wellman, Inc.. In 1996 the group sold the crop protection business to Nufarm.
Map showing Imperial Chemical Industries sales regions, offices and factories in the United Kingdom in May 1955. In the 1940s and 1950s, the company established its pharmaceutical business and developed a number of key products, including Paludrine (1940s, an anti-malarial drug), [5] halothane (1951, an inhalational anaesthetic agent), propofol (1977, an intravenous anaesthetic agent), [13 ...
1918 Nobel Industries is formed, containing all the explosives industry in the UK, by Sir Harry McGowan, the head of British Nobel; 1926 ICI is formed from four large companies on 4 December, with a capital value of £65; 1939 ICI started its first polyethylene unit at Wallerscote in Cheshire. Fisons was also formed
In 1926 Nobel Industries merged with Brunner Mond, the United Alkali Company and the British Dyestuffs Corporation to form Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). The merger, orchestrated by Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett and McGowan, created one of the world's largest industrial corporations at the time.
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After World War I it merged with Nobel Industries. [3] In 1926 the company acquired Eley Brothers, an ammunition business. [4] The company, by then known as Nobel Explosives, was one of the four businesses that merged in 1927 to create Imperial Chemical Industries. [3] The Witton site became the head office of ICI Metals. [3]