Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
- Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
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▪ British corporation
major British corporation that was founded in 1926 as Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.
to amalgamate four major British chemical companies: Brunner,
Mond &
Co.
Ltd.,
Nobel Industries Ltd.,
United Alkali Company Ltd.,
and British Dyestuffs Corporation Ltd.
Between World Wars I and II,
ICI was a major competitor of Germany'
s IG Farben,
the cartel formed in 1925 (
and dissolved by the Allies after World War II).
By the late 1970s,
ICI ranked below all three successors to IG Farben (
Hoechst,
BASF,
and Bayer corporations)
in terms of sales but was still the largest chemical concern in the United Kingdom.
ICI'
s headquarters are in London.
ICI'
s constituent companies in 1926 produced chemicals,
dyes,
explosives,
fertilizers,
fibres,
nonferrous metals,
and paints,
and the group went on to produce a wider range of chemicals,
paints,
pharmaceuticals,
synthetic fibres (
especially polyesters and nylon),
and plastics.
In 1993 ICI split off its drug,
pesticide,
and specialty chemical concerns into a new corporation named Zeneca Group PLC.
The parent company continued to produce industrial polymers and other chemicals,
paints,
and explosives.
In 1997 ICI bought the specialty chemicals business of Unilever.
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Universalium.
2010.
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