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 174,011 pages of information and 250,208 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Deeside Titanium

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Deeside Titanium Ltd. of North Wales.

1978 ICI decided to close their Titanium plant (capacity 3,600 TPA) which was 25 years old and needed significant investment.

1982 Opening of the 5,000 tonne a year plant at Deeside, North Wales, which was owned by Rolls-Royce (20%), Billiton UK (62.5%) and IMI Titanium (17.5%), built on 50 acres of land acquired from British Steel Corporation.[1]

1993 THE Government has ruled out any chance of saving the doomed firm Deeside Titanium, a subsidiary of Rolls Royce on the Deeside Industrial Park will close before the end of the year making 73 people ...[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1982/09/23
  2. Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition) 14 September 1993
  • [1] Titanium plant