The Morgan Crucible is one of the largest UK

United Kingdom

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 manufacturers of carbon and ceramic products for industrial use. It is a constituent of the FTSE 250 index.

History

The company was founded in Battersea

Battersea

Battersea is an area of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is an inner-city district of South London, situated on the south side of the River Thames, 2.9 miles south-west of Charing Cross. Battersea spans from Fairfield in the west to Queenstown in the east...

 in South London

London

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 by the six Morgan brothers in 1856 as The Patent Plumbago Syndicate Limited to make graphite

Graphite

The mineral graphite is one of the allotropes of carbon. It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789 from the Ancient Greek γράφω , "to draw/write", for its use in pencils, where it is commonly called lead . Unlike diamond , graphite is an electrical conductor, a semimetal...

 crucible

Crucible

A crucible is a container used for metal, glass, and pigment production as well as a number of modern laboratory processes, which can withstand temperatures high enough to melt or otherwise alter its contents...

s. The current name of the company, The Morgan Crucible Company, was adopted in 1881 and it diversified into carbon

Carbon

Carbon is the chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalent—making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds...

 brush

Brush (electric)

A brush is a device which conducts current between stationary wires and moving parts, most commonly in a rotating shaft. Typical applications include electric motors, alternators and electric generators.-Etymology:...

es in 1904.

In 1954 the company became one of the first businesses in the UK

United Kingdom

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 to computerise its financial records. The company relocated its manufacturing operations from Battersea

Battersea

Battersea is an area of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is an inner-city district of South London, situated on the south side of the River Thames, 2.9 miles south-west of Charing Cross. Battersea spans from Fairfield in the west to Queenstown in the east...

 to Morriston

Morriston

Morriston is a community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales and falls within the Morriston ward. Morriston is sometimes referred to as a distinct town , however Morriston never had a town charter, and is now part of the continuous urban area around Swansea, the centre of which lies three...

 in Wales

Wales

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 and Norton

Norton, Worcester, Worcestershire

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 in Worcestershire

Worcestershire

Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...

 in 1976.

Operations

The company has four divisions:

• Carbon
• Technical Ceramics
  Morgan Technical Ceramics
  Morgan Technical Ceramics is a division of The Morgan Crucible Company plc, comprising Morgan Advanced Ceramics and Morgan Electro Ceramics . The group manufactures products from a comprehensive range of ceramic, glass, precious metal, piezoelectric and dielectric materials...
  
  
• Thermal Ceramics
• Molten Metal Systems