Tata Chemicals Europe
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Tata Chemicals Europe (formerly Brunner Mond (UK) Limited) is a UK-based
History
The original company was formed as a partnership in 1873 (becoming a limited company in 1881) by John Brunner and Ludwig Mond. They built Winnington Works in Northwich, Cheshire and produced their first soda ash in 1874.
In 1911 it acquired soap and fat manufacturer Joseph Crosfield and Sons and Gossage, another soap company that owned palm plantations. A few years later it sold the soap and chemical businesses to Unilever.
In 1917, the company's
In 1924 Brunner Mond acquired the Magadi Soda Company of
During the early twentieth century the company built managers' and workers' houses in Hartford, Cheshire.[1]
In 1991, Brunner Mond Holdings Limited, rapidly
Brunner Mond acquired British Salt, a Cheshire-based brine supplier, in 2010 for around £93 million. This vertical acquisition gave longer term raw commodity price certainty and an economy of transport distance for one of the company's largest factories. The company was bought by Tata Chemicals in 2006. In April 2011, Brunner Mond was re-branded Tata Chemicals Europe.
In 2022, Tata Chemicals Europe set up the UK's first industrial-scale carbon capture and usage plant, which can capture 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum.[2]
See also
- Tata Chemicals Limited
- Solvay process
- Silvertown explosion
- Mond gas
- Timeline of hydrogen technologies
- Ludwig Mond Award
- Melchett Medal
- Baron Melchett
- Robert Mond
References
- ^ "Hartford Village Design Statement" (PDF). Vale Royal Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2007.
- ^ Livemint (24 June 2022). "Tata Chemicals Europe opens UK's largest carbon capture plant". mint. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
External links
- Brunner Mond website
- Magadi Soda website Archived 24 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine