John Bennett, Lawes and Co
of Imperial Street, Bromley-by-Bow, London, E.3. (1959)
1867 John Bennet Lawes and Co bought the insolvent Atlas Chemical Works at Millwall (which produced tartaric and citric acid).
1892 Thomas Bennett, manager to Sir John Bennett, Lawes and Co, told the court that his company had been making tartaric acid in lead vessels for 25 years without injurious effects as far as he knew.[1]
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."
1909 John Bennet Laws 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"
1911 Exhibited non-conducting cement at the Chemical Engineering Exhibition, which would adhere directly to structural steel work.[2]
1959 Products:Tartaric and citric acids, cream of tartar, sodium potassium tartrate carbonic acid gas, lithium salts, calcium gluconate, glucono delta lactose (gluconic acid anhydride).