Sandoz Chemical Co
of 9 Arundel Street, Bradford and 131 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, subsidiary of a Swiss chemical company.
1916 Swiss Colour Works (involving the Society of Chemical Industry, Sandoz Chemical Co, Messrs Geigy, and Messrs Durand and Hugenin) were recognised by the British Cotton and Wool Dyers Association for their contribution to maintaining supplies of dyes in the face of the German embargo. [1]
1917 Advert. Aniline colours
1919 Took premises at Trafford Park[2]
By 1993 the main UK companies were Sandoz Holdings Great Britain and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals
1996 Sandoz merged with another Swiss chemical company, Ciba-Geigy, to form Novartis. The speciality additives business, which made additives for the plastics, coating and paper industries, was spun-out as Ciba[3]