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John Bennet Lawes and Co (of Mincing Lane)

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of Mincing Lane, London EC

1867 John Bennet Lawes bought the insolvent Atlas Chemical Works at Millwall (which produced tartaric and citric acid).

1870 John Bennet Lawes, manufacturing chemist (Atlas Works)[1]

1890 John Bennet Lawes and Co, citric and tartaric acid and cream of tartare manufacturers, of Mincing Lane and Atlas Chemical Works[2]

1901 George Frederick Berry, manager of Atlas Chemical Works, Millwall, and John Bennet Laws and Co of Mincing Lane, EC, chemical manufacturers, patented "A New or Improved Method or Process for the Recovery, Collection and Utilization of Waste Carbonic Acid Gas given off in the Manufacture of certain Acids and Acid Salts" and " Improvements in or relating to Cements or Plasters, and in the Manufacture of Bricks, Tiles, Slabs, Artificial Stone, Electric Insulating Compositions, and the like." In 1902 they also patented "A New or Improved Material or Substance and Method or Process to be Employed in the Manufacture of Heat Non-conducting Compositions."

1905 John Bennet Lawes and Co, manufacturers of Citric and tartaric acid, carbonic acid gas, "Gypo" plaster and Lawes' "Keen's" cement, and non-conducting materials for boiler and steam pipe covering, of Mincing Lane and Atlas Chemical Works [3]

1909 John Bennet Lawes and Co of Mincing Lane, EC, chemical manufacturers, and William Alfred Davis, chemist, of Bromley, Kent, patented "Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Tartaric Acid"


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