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Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company. It was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain. [1] Its headquarters were at Millbank in London. ICI was a constituent of the FT 30 and later the FTSE 100 indices. ICI was formed in 1926 as a result of the merger of four of
Nobel Enterprises (/ n oʊ ˈ b ɛ l /) is a chemicals business that used to be based at Ardeer, in the Ayrshire town of Stevenston, in Scotland.Specialising in nitrogen-based propellants and explosives and nitrocellulose-based products such as varnishes and inks.
Canadian Industries Limited, also known as C-I-L, is a Canadian chemicals manufacturer. Products include paints, fertilizers and pesticides, and explosives.It was formed in 1910 by the merger of five Canadian explosives companies.
It owned an explosives factory [7] at Deer Park, Victoria through ICI's original Nobel holdings. This provided explosives during World War II. ICIANZ became a publicly traded company by ICI (UK) in 1950 and was renamed ICI Australia Pty Ltd in 1971. ICI divested itself of ICI Australia in 1997, which later becomes Orica in 1998.
To manage publicity, the company set it up as a fine press, which, when Kynoch became part of ICI in 1926, continued as a division and kept its name, The Kynoch Press. The Kynoch Press not only handled the firm's printing, but performed independent work, operating at times like a small press , and at other times like a fine press , and yet at ...
The Nobel explosives factory (later ICI, then Orica) in Deer Park was set-up in 1873 to produce explosives, especially gelignite and dynamite, for quarries, mines, as well as for road, rail, dam and tunnel construction with the intention to become independent of imports from Britain and South Africa.
On May 31, 1961, shortly after the Atlas Powder Company closed its Giant facility, it changed its name to Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc. as it started to move away from producing explosives. On July 21, 1971, Atlas was purchased by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (UK) and became its American affiliate under the name ICI Americas Inc.
Ammonium compounds are used not only for fertilisers, but also explosives. Billingham-on-Tees was a small village in 1917, when its Grange Farm was chosen to be the site of a large chemical works. On 22 March 1918, the Minister of Munitions approved the site to be developed as a factory that would make ammonium nitrate . [ 1 ]