ICI Alkali Division

part of ICI

1926 Brunner, Mond and Co merged with three other British chemical companies to form Imperial Chemical Industries, an organisation that grew to become one of the world's largest and most successful companies.

1926 United Alkali Co had been one of the largest chemical companies at the time of its formation in 1890 but its members used the Leblanc process for soda manufacture which was inferior to the Solvay process used by Brunner, Mond and Co, another key member of the new combine, ICI. Brunner Mond's ammonia-soda plants became the nucleus of the Alkali Division.

1926 Opening of the Wallerscote Works

1933 Fawcett and Gibson discovered polyethylene at Winnington Works

1937 Alkali Division took the lead on development of electrical and other uses of polyethylene.

1947 British Industries Advert. Invitation to visit its Exhibits. (Chemicals, etc. Section - Olympia and Earls Court)

• ICI of Nobel House. Manufacturers of Heavy Chemicals, Acids, Alkalis, Dyestuffs, Auxiliary Products, Rubber Chemicals, Plastics, Paints, Metals, Explosives, Limes, Fertilizers, Pharmaceuticals including "Paludrine" Antimalarial drug, Insecticides including "Gamexane", "Methoxone" Selective Weed Killer, "Polythene" new Plastic. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. A.1023)

1964 ICI General Chemicals and Alkali Divisions merged to become ICI Mond Division.

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