Carmarthen Chemical Works
From Graces Guide
of Pantyffynnon, nr. Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, maker of wood distillation products and gunpowder.
Products included acetates (of lead, sodium, and calcium), naphthas, gunpowder, and charcoal.
Caleb Chivers, a manufacturer who also ran chemical works at Brechfa and at Maescwmmer near Newport, owned Carmarthen Chemical Works. Chivers was also a partner in Pontypridd Chemical Works, Glamorgan.
1871 The Carmarthen works were active
By the 1880s the works had closed.
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Sources of Information
- Archives of the British chemical industry, 1750-1914: a handlist. By Peter J. T. Morris and Colin A. Russell. Edited by John Graham Smith. 1988.