Steetley Refractories
of Gateford Hill, Worksop
One of the Steetley Group of companies
1958 Bosworth Gravel Co Ltd was incorporated
1977 Name changed to Steetley Refractories Ltd
By 1984 the business was split into two divisions, the Magnesia Materials Division and the Refractory Products Division.
Magnesia Materials Division extracted and processed dolomite from quarries at Thrislington in Co. Durham and at Whitwell in Derbyshire and produced seawater magnesia at a plant at Hartlepool.
Refractory Products Division had works at:
- Steetley: producing basic magnesia bricks, carbon-bonded bricks, fired dolomite bricks, pitch bonded bricks and basic speciality products.
- Dudley, West Midlands: producing night storage heater bricks, and other alumino-silicate products.
- Rotherham: making basic and alumino-silicate monolithics, and providing a refractory maintenance service including the supply of gunning materials and equipment.
- Thomas Wragg, Sheffield: producing fireclay and high alumina holloware, and other special refractories.
- United Fireclay, Scotland: making standard and special firebricks and other alumino-silicate products.
- Oughtibridge, Sheffield: making metallurgical products such as fluxes, anti-piping compounds, and ceramic fibre insulating shapes, all of which are non-refractory products.
1986 Name changed to Steetley Refractors Ltd
1988 Name changed to Steetley Quarry Products Ltd
1992 Steetley was acquired by Redland who sold the refractories business to the Baker Group; the company was renamed Baker Steetley Refractories Ltd
1993 Renamed Baker Refractories Ltd
See Also
Sources of Information
- Companies House filings
- Monopolies and Merger Commission report [1]