British Acheson Electrodes
From Graces Guide
of Wincobank, Sheffield, Yorkshire
1915 Company founded.
1915 Private company.
1937 Manufacturers of amorphous carbon and graphite electrodes.[1]
1954 Many Rotherham streets were flooded and work was stopped at the South Yorkshire Chemical Works and British Acheson Electrodes in Midland Road, Kimberworth.[2]
1961 Manufacturers of carbon and "Acheson" graphite arc furnace electrodes, graphite powders, nuclear graphite, "Karbate" impervious graphite and carbon chemical engineering plant and equipment. 1,250 employees.[3]
1967 Had developed a new grade of graphite for the Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors[4]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ [1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries]]
- ↑ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 21 August 1954
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Nov 03, 1967