Open Day celebrates 125 years of success

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 205 KB
• Volume: 2007
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1350-4789
• DOI: 10.1016/s1350-4789(08)70100-4

✦ Synopsis

Anniversary of the company with

an Open Day at the company plant in Cockermouth, Cumbria, UK.

Attractions included the local Brass Band, Cockermouth Mountain Rescue, M-Sport rally car, a range of entertainment for children, food and factory tours. The event celebrated the anniversary of the start of the company by a Scottish engineer, James Walker, near Tower Bridge in London. He developed Lion Brand High Pressure Steam Packing which helped ensure the success of the new generation of high-efficiency steam engines that powered mankind into the 20th century and set his company on the path to a future in materials technology and fluid sealing. The company is now a global manufacturer and distributor with a group turnover of £125 million.