Imperial Aluminium Co
of Droitwich.
of Witton, Birmingham (1965)
1937 Extruded sections and aluminium mattings.
WWII: ICI was asked to design, build and operate a new aluminium plant at Waunarlwydd in South Wales.
1959 ICI and Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) formed a JV called Imperial Aluminium Co to make wrought aluminium products in the UK; ICI owned 51 percent.[1]
Brand name Impalco
1968 Supplied aluminium busbars for IMI when they opened the first liquid-metal-cooled vacuum titanium-melting furnace at Birmingham.[2]
1971 Alcoa Manufacturing (G.B.) Limited (formerly Imperial Aluminium Company (Wales) Limited) of Waunarlwydd Works, P.O. Box 68, Swansea[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times June 25, 1959
- ↑ The Engineer of 10th May 1968 p742
- ↑ London Gazette 1 July 1971