Bakelite Ltd

Sectors:

  • Chemical production Plastic production
  • Rubber & plastic products manufacture Plastic products manufacture

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Established 1926 through merger of three plastics producers including Damard Lacquer Co Ltd of Birmingham. Made plastics and plastic products. Owned by the Union Carbide Corp of USA from 1939. 1963 merged with British Xylonite Co Ltd, then owned by the Distillers Co Ltd, to form Bakelite Xylonite Ltd, subsequently fully owned by Union Carbide.

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