Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,148 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Coolag

From Graces Guide

of Glossop, insulation manufacturer

1965 of WREN NEST MILLS, HIGH STREET, GLOSSOP, member of the Truscon Group of Companies[1]

1966 House insulation with Coolag Granulated Polyurethane Foam[2]

1967 COOLAG Ltd described themselves as a young and progressive subsidiary of a large industrial group, marketing a new material which is already established as the best of its kind[3]

1975 Tarmac Ltd., Wolverhampton, has completed its purchase of Coolag Ltd. from Truscon Ltd. Coolag has factories at Glossop and Ashto ...[4]

1983 Tarmac Building Products is to sell its Coolag Industrial Division to the Coolag management who will in future trade as Kooltherm Insulation Products.[5]

1986 Pilkington Brothers bought Kooltherm Insulation Products, a company specialising in low temperature insulation.[6]

1987 Coolag Purlboard, whose head office is at Heysham, is part of the international Tarmac group. It is UK market leader in the manufacture of rigid urethane foam products primarily for the building industry.[7]

1990 Manufacturer of rigid polyurethane insulation boards for the building industry

1990 Coolag was part of the highly successful Tarmac Group.[8]

1991 Tarmac Industrial Products sold Coolag ,Ltd, the Heysham based manufacturer of building insulation products, to Shelter-Plaschem. [9]

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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Evening News 02 September 1965
  2. Evening News (London) 12 January 1966
  3. Birmingham Daily Post 03 May 1967
  4. Wolverhampton Express and Star 19 June 1975
  5. Wolverhampton Express and Star 11 February 1983
  6. Wolverhampton Express and Star 27 February 1986
  7. Lancaster Guardian 03 April 1987
  8. Lancaster Guardian 29 June 1990
  9. Lancaster Guardian 13 December 1991