- Morgan Crucible
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The Morgan Crucible Company plc 
Type Public (LSE: MGCR) Industry Manufacturing Founded 1856 Headquarters Windsor, UK Key people Tim Stevenson, Chairman
Mark Robertshaw, CEORevenue £1,017.1 million (2010)[1] Operating income £93.6 million (2010)[1] Net income £48.0 million (2010)[1] Employees 10,300 (2010)[2] Website www.morgancrucible.com The Morgan Crucible (LSE: MGCR) is one of the largest UK manufacturers of carbon and ceramic products for industrial use. It is a constituent of the FTSE 250 index.
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History
The company was founded in Battersea in South London by the six Morgan brothers in 1856 as The Patent Plumbago Syndicate Limited to make graphite crucibles. The current name of the company, The Morgan Crucible Company, was adopted in 1881 and it diversified into carbon brushes in 1904.[3]
In 1954 the company became one of the first businesses in the UK to computerise its financial records.[4] The company relocated its manufacturing operations from Battersea to Morriston in Wales and Norton in Worcestershire in 1976.[3]
Operations
The company has four divisions:
- Carbon
- Technical Ceramics
- Thermal Ceramics
- Molten Metal Systems
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Categories:- Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
- Companies established in 1856
- Manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
- Companies based in London
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