Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Macpherson Drynamels

From Graces Guide

of Aldridge

formerly Drynamels

1987 May. 'Macpherson Drynamels took over the former GEC site in Westgate. Aldridge. 18 months ago and made a it to open a manufacture powder-coating plant.....is the amalgamation of powder coating operations from two sites in the West Midlands and one In London into a single 28 acre site. Macpherson Drynamels now employs nearly 100 workers and their new factory is one of the the most technologically advanced of its kind In Europe. Managing director, Mr Brian Parks, said the site had formerly been derelict for six years.....Macpherson's has a turnover of nearly 10 million a year.'[1]

1987 October Taken over by Ferro (Great Britain).[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Sandwell Evening Mail - Friday 01 May 1987
  2. Staffordshire Sentinel - Monday 05 October 1987