Imperial Aluminium Co
of Droitwich.
1937 Extruded sections and aluminium mattings.
of Witton, Birmingham (1965)
WWII: ICI was asked to design, build and operate a new aluminium plant at Waunarlwydd in South Wales.
1959 ICI and Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) formed a JV called Imperial Aluminium Co to make wrought aluminium products in the UK; ICI owned 51 percent.[1]
Brand name Impalco
ICI and Alcoa acquired Invicta Foil Co and the aluminium foil division of the Prestige Group
1960 ICI acquired on behalf of itself and Alcoa the issued share capital of Almin Ltd, parent company of Associated Light Metal Industries Ltd[2]
1960 Modernisation and expansion started at Waunarlwydd
1966 Sold the site formerly occupied by Southern Forge at Langley to Ford[3]
1966 completion of expansion at Waunarlwydd[4]
1968 Supplied aluminium busbars for IMI when they opened the first liquid-metal-cooled vacuum titanium-melting furnace at Birmingham.[5]
c.1968 ICI sold its share in the business, with Alcoa then owning 75 percent and Elektrokemisk (Elkem) of Norway the other 25 percent; the company's name was changed to Alcoa of Great Britain[6]
1971 Alcoa Manufacturing (G.B.) Limited (formerly Imperial Aluminium Company (Wales) Limited) of Waunarlwydd Works, P.O. Box 68, Swansea[7]
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