Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,617 pages of information and 246,219 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Tenneco International Holdings

From Graces Guide

British subsidiary of Tenneco International

1973 Company incorporated as holding company

1978 Acquired the remainder of Albright and Wilson that it did not already own.

1995 Tenneco divested many of its assets; parts of the original core of Albright and Wilson were transferred into a new public company, Albright and Wilson Plc which was floated on the stock market, in February of that year.

1999 However, just four years later, following disappointing results, the French chemical company Rhodia acquired Albright and Wilson and the century-and-a-half old name finally disappeared.

Parts of the original Albright and Wilson company are now owned by the Huntsman Corporation.


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