Marchon Division
In 1955 Albright and Wilson purchased Marchon Products Ltd. based in Whitehaven, which produced phosphorus-based detergents by the "wet" process. The A&W Group now controlled production of phosphorus compounds by both important manufacturing routes. However, the phosphate detergent business, which was the bread-and-butter market for Marchon, ran into terminal decline in the late 1970s as the eutrophication of inland waterways by pollution from detergent phosphate residues pressed the detergent formulators to move away from phosphates, thus removing Marchon's prime product application area.
The name "Marchon" ended when the French company, Rhodia, took over Albright and Wilson in 1999.
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