Morgan Matroc
1964 Morgan Crucible Co acquired Steatite and Porcelain Products Ltd, Stourport-on-Severn, which was later renamed Morgan Technical Ceramics Ltd, Stourport
1972 Acquired Park Royal Porcelain Co of Sandy
1982 Acquired Anderman and Ryder Ltd, of Molesey, Surrey
1984 Acquired Advanced Materials Engineering Ltd, subsequently rebranded as MTC Stourport
1984 Launch of Morgan Matroc Ltd and Morgan Matroc Inc.
1986 Acquired Duramic Products, later combined with WESGO, later known as WESGO-Duramic Products, Fairfield
1987 Acquired Spoumd SA, France. Became Morgan Matroc SA and relocated to Collegien - subsequently sold to a management buy out team.
1987 Acquired Unilator Ltd, Ruabon. Transferred to Morgan Electro Ceramics in 1999
1989 Acquired Alberox Inc, New Bedford, MA, USA
1989 Acquired Vernitron, Bedford, OH, USA and Vernitron, Southampton, UK. Both were transferred to Morgan Electro Ceramics in 1999.
1991 Acquired WESGO Inc Belmont, CA and Fairfield NJ, USA, plus WESGO Gmbh, Erlangen, Germany. This acquisition included the Ceramics and Precious Metal activities of WESGO Inc.
1992 Acquired Lodge Ceramics, Rugby, from Smith's Industries
1995 Joint Venture formed in Jaiding, China creating Shanghai Morgan Matroc Technical Ceramics Co. Ltd - subsequently closed at the end of 2008
1997 Acquired W. Haldenwanger Gmbh, Waldkraiburg and Berlin, Germany, together with JV operation in Yixing, China and Bolt Technical Ceramics, a distributor in Conroe Texas, USA - Bolt subsequently relocated to Fairfield in 2005.
1998 Acquired GBC Materials, Latrobe, PA, USA
1999 Launch of Morgan Advanced Ceramics and Morgan Electro Ceramics
2000 Acquired the Electroceramics Division of Philips in Eindhoven
2001 Acquired Performance Materials Inc, Hudson NH, USA and Diamonex Inc, Allentown, USA
2003 Merger of Morgan Advanced Ceramics and Morgan Electro Ceramics to form Morgan Technical Ceramics
2007 Closure of the Eindhoven Electroceramics sites, with relocation of the business to Ruabon and Southampton
2008 Acquired Certech and Carpenter Advanced Ceramics
2010 Technical Ceramics and Thermal Ceramics were merged to become Morgan Ceramics
2013 Morgan Ceramics and Morgan Advanced Materials were merged.
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Morgan Technical Ceramics