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Possibly same as John Player (2)
In the middle of the 19th century, the English entrepreneur John Player founded the smelting and rolling mill Albion, in Neuwied, in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate. There he made black plate. After bankruptcy in 1856, the factory was taken over in 1857 by Buderus and now renamed as black and tinplate plant Germania.[1]
Opened a tinplate works in Neuwied, Germany, in 1851, called it Albion and the company seized to exist in 1856.[2]
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