International Combustion Limited was a major engineering business based in

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offering products for the nuclear engineering industry. International Combustion Australia Limited was a separate non-affiliated company.

History

The Company was founded by W. R. Wood, an American, in 1898 in

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as the Automatic Furnance Syndicate.International Combustion Ltd from American roots to Sinfin Lane
Byegone Derbyshire, 1 February 2010 It changed its name to the Underfeed Stoker Company in 1902 and then to International Combustion Engineering when it moved to

in 1922. At that time it concentrated on the production of

casting Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. The solidified part is also known as a casting, which is ejected or ...

s from its new

foundry A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing the mold material after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals pr ...

. It acquired

Clayton Equipment Company Clayton Equipment Company Ltd, now known simply as Clayton Equipment Ltd or CEC and CEL, is a locomotive construction company that specialises in rail equipment, design and build, tunnelling, mining, metro, mainline and shunter locomotives. In ...

in 1957. By 1959 it had expanded its activities such that it was awarded the contract to provide the

boiler A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, centra ...

s for

Trawsfynydd nuclear power station Trawsfynydd nuclear power station () is a former Magnox nuclear power station situated in Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, Wales. The plant, which became operational in 1965, was the only nuclear power station in the UK to be built inland, wi ...

. It was acquired by

Clarke Chapman Clarke Chapman is a British engineering firm based in Gateshead, which was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange. History The company was founded in 1864 in Gateshead by William Clarke (1831–1890). In 1865 Clarke took in a partne ...

in 1974 and then absorbed into

Northern Engineering Industries Northern Engineering Industries plc (NEI) was a British engineering firm, which for over 10 years was one of the largest employers on Tyneside. Its headquarters were based at the Regent Centre at Gosforth in Newcastle upon Tyne. History The com ...

('NEI') in 1977; in 1989 NEI was itself acquired by

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and they decided to pass on International Combustion to

ABB Group ABB Group is a Swedish-Swiss multinational electrical engineering corporation. Incorporated in Switzerland as ABB Ltd., and headquartered in Zurich, it is dual-listed on the Nasdaq Nordic exchange in Stockholm, Sweden, and the SIX Swiss Exch ...

in 1997.UK Business Park

References

External links

Grace's guide
{{ABB Group Engineering companies of the United Kingdom Manufacturing companies established in 1898 Companies based in Derby 1898 establishments in England Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1997 1997 disestablishments in England