National Carbonising Co
1933 Company incorporated
1935 Pilot plant for making Rexco was constructed and operated at Mansfield Colliery.
1937 Acquired rights to the the low temperature carbonisation process for making Rexco smokeless fuel from the Coal Research Syndicate Ltd[1]. Pioneered its development[2].
1961 Rexco smokeless fuel was already made at the company's plants at Thoresby and Mansfield; the company applied for permission to build a third plant at Comrie colliery near Oakley in Fife[3]
The tar by-product was sold to Yorkshire Tar Distillers. The company had developed a number of products using this tar including Rexcopine, Rexcote, Rexproof, and Rexgro.
1964 Public issue of shares.
1967 34th AGM. Maker of Rexco smokeless fuel. The subsidiaries were: carbonising subsidiaries, haulage subsidiaries, and other: Mining and General Engineers Ltd and George Saunders Machinery Co Ltd. Had acquired F. D. Brown Ltd from William Cory's. [4]
1969 Rexco acquired South Yorkshire Chemical Works
1969 Division of the company into 2 divisions - one dealing with the Rexco products, the other with the transport and plant hire activities[5]
1971 Acquired the Barrow Barnsley Co. NCC Plant and Transport Ltd acquired Scotts of Nottingham. NCC (Engineers) maintained progress.[6]
1971 One of the 47 companies (in eleven groups) awarded licences to explore blocks of the North Sea for gas[7]
1972 Commissioned new production plant at Snibston[8]
1973 Shut down the plant at Mansfield[9]
1975 Announced closure of the coking plants at Barnsley and Rotherham[10]
1979 Sold its 65 percent interest in NCC Minerals except for its interest in Carock Fell Mining Co[11]
Subsequently renamed NCC Energy Group[12] concentrating on oil, gas and minerals exploration[13]
1980 Acquired Bernard Wardle, some producing gas wells in Pennsylvania and Energy Capital, formerly brickmaker Hamilborne[14]
1987 Appointment of liquidators to the NCC Group[15]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times Sept. 16, 1964
- ↑ The Times May 14, 1963
- ↑ The Times Dec. 11, 1961
- ↑ The Times July 17, 1967
- ↑ The Times Dec. 22, 1969
- ↑ The Times July 29, 1971
- ↑ The Times Dec. 23, 1971
- ↑ The Times Aug. 7, 1972
- ↑ The Times June 22, 1973
- ↑ The Times Aug. 11, 1975
- ↑ The Times Dec. 19, 1979
- ↑ The Times Mar. 16, 1982
- ↑ The Times May 28, 1981
- ↑ The Times Oct. 4, 1980
- ↑ The London Gazette 22 January 1987