Laporte plc, chemicals manufacturers

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Alternative name(s):	Laporte Industries Ltd (Formerly known as)
Date:	1888-2000
Places:	London Luton, Bedfordshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Chemicals > Inks, dyes, pigments and paints \| Chemicals > Chemicals and gases
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C105175 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B15995 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1888-2000: Company documents and photographs	Science Museum Library and Archives	LAP	NRA 33578 Laporte See Annual Return 2017
2	1938-1943: plant record books	Science Museum Library and Archives	MS/0501
3	1888-2000: Incl legal agreements, photo albums rel to plants in Warrington and Luton, and photographs, films and documents relating to fire, explosion and contamination tests for various chemicals	Science Museum Library and Archives
4	1925-1928: papers rel to the unsuccessful Monk-Irwin process for producing titanium dioxide pigment from ilmenite.	Science Museum Library and Archives