Note: this is a sub-section of GKN
of Chester Street, Aston, Birmingham
GKN Birwelco, of Wolverhampton.
and
GKN Birwelco (Uskside), of Uskside Works, Newport
1957 GKN acquired L. H. Newton including its subsidiary Birwelco and its associated company Brown Fintube (Great Britain)[1]
1968 Supplied induction furnace to Nissan Motors in Japan [2]
1970 Formation of GKN Birwelco (Uskside), a new trading company amalgamating the electric furnaces division of Birwelco and Usk Engineering[3]
1970 Was building a wide range of capital plant, including a naptha cracker for a Swedish ethylene plant, a dry cooling tower for a South African power plant, and individual heat exchanges for the process industries[4]
1964 Part of GKN Contracting
1974 GKN Birwelco and GKN Birwelco (Uskside) were both part of GKN Engineering[5]
1980 Built a 70 ft high burner test rig for BP's research centre at Sunbury[6]