14 Facts About Courtaulds

Courtaulds was a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of fabric, clothing, artificial fibres, and chemicals.

Courtaulds had planned to spend more time on his country estate Gosfield Hall near Halstead, but continued to play an active role in the company until just before he died in March 1881.

Courtaulds entered the market of cellulosics in North America with the setting up of the American Viscose Corporation in 1909.

Courtaulds was Canada's only rayon manufacturer in the 1980s, and was criticized for polluting Cornwall, Ontario.

In Europe Courtaulds expanded its cellulosics business both directly and in joint ventures, including British Cellophane.

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In 1945 Courtaulds remained one of the four groups which dominated the man-made fibre industry in Europe.

In 1964 Courtaulds acquired Fine Spinners and Doublers for £14 million and the Lancashire Cotton Corporation for £22 million.

Courtaulds worked hard to prevent publication of this data in the UK.

Courtaulds was one of the earliest companies in the UK to establish an economics department.

Courtaulds had closed many of its UK factories and moved production to new Asian sites.

In January 1993, the Tencel plant in Mobile, Alabama, US reached full production levels of 20,000 tons per year, by which time Courtaulds had spent £100 million and 10 years on Tencel development.

In Europe, Courtaulds had taken much more stringent emissions-reduction measures.

At the time, Courtaulds had about a thousand employees in the UK, of whom 300 were employed at a tights factory.

In 2007, Courtaulds Textiles employed around 20,000 people across 16 countries in Europe, North America and Asia.