GKN Birwelco

1960.

1965.

Note: this is a sub-section of GKN

of Chester Street, Aston, Birmingham

GKN Birwelco, of Wolverhampton.

and

GKN Birwelco (Uskside), of Uskside Works, Newport

1957 GKN acquired L. H. Newton including its subsidiary Birwelco and its associated company Brown Fintube (Great Britain)

1968 Supplied induction furnace to Nissan Motors in Japan

1970 Formation of GKN Birwelco (Uskside), a new trading company amalgamating the electric furnaces division of Birwelco and Usk Engineering

1970 Was building a wide range of capital plant, including a naptha cracker for a Swedish ethylene plant, a dry cooling tower for a South African power plant, and individual heat exchanges for the process industries

1964 Part of GKN Contracting

1974 GKN Birwelco and GKN Birwelco (Uskside) were both part of GKN Engineering

1980 Built a 70 ft high burner test rig for BP's research centre at Sunbury

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