Borax Consolidated
Producers of borax and boron products, of 16 Eastcheap, London
1899 The company was registered on 11 January, to acquire the borate and colemanite deposits, boracite mines, railways and factories in the United States of America, England, France, Austria, Turkey, and South America, of various companies, including the Borax Co, the Pacific Borax and Redwoods Chemical Works, and the Societe Lyonnaise. [1]
1908 Public company incorporated
1956 Name changed to Borax (Holdings) Ltdl[2]; 2 new operating companies: Borax Consolidated for the British operation and United States Borax and Chemical Corporation[3]
1957 Research laboratories acquired at Chessington with capacity for 50 chemists[4]
1960 Acquired Spencer Chapman and Messel and sold 45 percent of the shares to F. W. Berk and Co[5]
1961 Acquired Hardman and Holden[6]
1961 Hardmans acquired J. M. Beckett and Son, pigment manufacturers, of Biddulph[7]
1968 Acquired by Rio Tinto-Zinc[8]