Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1927 Company founded as Scapa Dryers.
1968 Acquired Porritt and Spencer.
1985 Acquired United Wire Works.
1987 Acquired Rotunda.
1988 Acquired Lindsay and Williams.
1997 Acquired Sellotape.
1999 Scapa divested its traditional papermakers' felts business to concentrate on adhesive tapes.
2006 Sold its Megolon cable insulation business to AlphaGary.
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