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Organisationally, all domestic gypsum activities were consolidated in the British Gypsum subsidiary and the parent company was BPB Industries. BPB had also acquired the main paper supplier in 1953 – the Aberdeen firm of C. Davidson. [citation needed] The post-war period saw extensive overseas investment through subsidiaries and associates.
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Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O. [4] It is widely mined and is used as a fertilizer and as the main constituent in many forms of plaster , drywall and blackboard or sidewalk chalk .
British Gypsum, Kirkby Thore. Gypsum has been quarried or mined in the area for over 200 years. The local British Gypsum Ltd [8] plant has produced plaster since 1910 and plasterboard since the 1960s. Currently it is more economic to use desulpho-gypsum transported by rail from Drax Power Station than to mine it locally but this depends on Drax ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... British Gypsum: 1987–present Output is used for plasters, renders etc. [1] [2] Boulby Mine:
Distiller and philanthropist John Bley (1674–1731) was born in East Leake and used the profits from his London-based business to fund the construction of a school in the village, which stood on the site of the modern Brookside Primary School. Upon his death, Bley left money to every resident of the village and was buried on the grounds of St ...
The geology of East Sussex includes a number of natural resources, at Mountfield, Robertsbridge there is a gypsum mine which produces significant quantities of gypsum extracted from the Purbeck Beds. As previously mentioned the Wadhurst Clay holds ferrous ore which was extracted up to the 17th century.
Blue Circle Industries was a British public company manufacturing cement. [1] It was founded in 1900 as the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. through the fusion of 24 cement works, mostly around on the Thames and Medway estuaries, together having around a 70% market share of the British cement market.