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of Aire and Calder Chemical Works, Castleford
c.1863 Established by William Hunt and his brother.
Maker of saltcake (commercial anhydrous sodium sulphate); sulphuric acid; concentrated sulphuric acid; Glauber's salt; hydrochloric acid.
1949 Acquired by Laporte Chemicals
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