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Erinoid Ltd

Other Business Names:

  • Light Pill Mills
  • Kleeman, O & M, Ltd

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Stroud, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, South West, England

Sectors:

  • Wearing apparel & footwear production Button & other clothing fasteners & accessories production
  • Rubber & plastic products manufacture Plastic products manufacture

Notes:

Traced origins to 1914 when started to make casein plastics using milk products at Light Pill Mills, Stroud, formerly used by the plastics business, Syrolit Ltd. Produced a horn type material used early on for making buttons, etc. Developed as a significant plastic products manufacturer. 1957 acquired by O & M Kleeman Ltd who sold the business in 1961 when renamed Mobil Chemicals Ltd

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