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Imperial Metal Industries

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1962 To mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of George Kynoch's percussion cap factory, ICI renamed its Metals Division as Imperial Metal Industries Ltd (IMI).

1966 Imperial Metal Industries was listed on the London Stock Exchange. Initially ICI retained a majority holding. The main components of the business were:[1]

1967 Acquired the titanium business of Jessop-Saville, making the company the only producer of titanium in Britain[2]

1967 IMI Ltd bought The Wolverhampton Metal Company Ltd in Wednesfield, a producer of non-ferrous ingots and billets and owner of several subsidiaries in the metal refining industry. Of particular interest to IMI Ltd was the copper refining business James Bridge Copper Works Ltd in Walsall, which had been bought by The Wolverhampton Metal Company Ltd in 1919, at a time when it was mainly a washing plant of the old jig-type with relatively small furnaces. Both The Wolverhampton Metal Company Ltd and later IMI Ltd, invested heavily in the site and in 1971 it became IMI Refiners Ltd

1971 Acquired Enots, pneumatic controls maker

1972 Acquired Norgren Shipston International, maker of pneumatic equipment, and its US associate C. A. Norgren [3]

1978 Name changed to IMI[4]


See Also

Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times Mar. 7, 1966
  2. ↑ The Times Mar. 26, 1970
  3. ↑ The Times Nov. 3, 1972
  4. ↑ The Times Mar. 20, 1978
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