Ownership Timeline: Tullis Russell Glenrothes/Markinch sites, general information
Date 2011
Event ID 967488
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/967488
Rothes and Auchmuty Mills:
1800 Rothes Bleachfield built on the banks of the River Leven
1804 Rothes Mill, the first paper mill in Fife is built on the banks of the River Leven
1804 Land leased from the Earl of Rothes to build Auchmuty Mill (NO27724 701761)
1809 Robert Tullis buys Auchmuty Mill and forms R. Tullis and Co.
1836 R. Tullis and Co. acquires Rothes Mill (NO28228 01625)
1846 R. Tullis acquires the Rothes Bleachfield (NO280016)
1865 Mr Leigh Slater funds the paper coating business in Cheshire
1896 Henry and Leigh Slater Ltd is formed
1906 The name of the company changes to Tullis Russell and Co. Ltd
1917 Sixteen acres of previously leased land at Cadham is purchased including Cadham House (NO278019) and Cadham Farm
1927 A Filner-Jacobs forms Vulcanised Fibre Ltd with financial assistance form David Russell, Tullis Russell supply special paper for the manufacture of Vulcanised Fibre (closes 1983)
1944 Remainder of Auchmuty farmlands purchased
1951 Auchmuty farmland sold to Glenrothes Development Corporation for the new town of Glenrothes
1961 Tullis Russell and the American company Crocker, Burnbank and Co. form and association to manufacture capacitor papers. The Russell and Crocker Mill at Markinch which opens in 1963 starts to make capacitor tissue.
1963 Vulcanised Fibre becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tullis Russell.
1965 IPAC Ltd of Manchester who produce crepe paper for the electrical industries is acquired by Tullis Russell and manufacture transfers to the Russell and Crocker Mill at Markinch in 1969. This mill closes in 1995. Production of crepe paper transfers to Rothes Mill.
1982 Coated Papers Ltd founded
1984 Coated Papers Ltd of Cheddleton, Staffordshire is acquired . The company moves from Cheddleton to Bollington , Cheshire in 1989.
1898 Henry Sleigh Slater closes and Coated Papers ltd takes over the Bollington site.
1997 The Markinch Company becomes known as Tullis Russell Papermakers Ltd .
1999 Asia Pacific Speciality Coaters renamed Tulis Russell Coaters Korea Ltd in 2001.
2002 Hanley and Bollington sites amalgamated under the name Tullis Russell Coaters.
Tullis Russell Coated Papers Ltd, 2011
