November's SciBar presentation

Brunner, Mond and Co 

The Building of a Major Chemical Business

Part 1

Bob Roach and David Hornby (with help from Walter Blackstock)

John Brunner, a business man from Liverpool and Ludwig Mond, a chemist from Germany, met when both were working for John Hutchinson, who had established the first Leblanc chemical factory in Widnes. They eventually took the bold step of setting up Brunner, Mond and Co. in Northwich to make alkali using the new Solvay process. Part 1 will cover the factors that influenced and prepared them; how they met and how they began to set up their own chemical manufacturing business. 

Part 2,  at a later SciBar will describe their struggles prior to the business becoming successful, how both became very wealthy and went on to other challenges, and the significant roles played by their descendants.

Presented by Friends of Catalyst & the Catalyst Science Discovery Centre