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Herberts (other)
Herberts may refer to: * Herberts, New Jersey, United States * The Herberts, Wales, United Kingdom * Alfred Herbert (company) Alfred Herbert Ltd was one of the world's largest machine tool manufacturing businesses. It was at one time the largest British machine tool builder.. History The business was founded in 1888 when Alfred Herbert and William Hubbard purchased f ... or Herbert's, British former machine tool manufacturing business * Herberts Gmbh, a German chemical company specializing in protective coatings, now Axalta See also * Herbert (other) {{dab, geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Herberts
The Herberts is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is located immediately to the north of the village of St. Mary Church and southwest of Llandough, 2.2 miles by road southwest of the market town centre of Cowbridge along St Athan Road. The River Thaw The River Thaw ( cy, Afon Ddawan) (also Ddaw) is a river in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. At 20 kilometres/12.4 miles, it is the longest river entirely in the Vale of Glamorgan. Course Its source is in the hills just south of th ... flows through The Herberts. Landmarks The fortified manor house, Old Beaupre Castle, is located to the northeast. Parwg Well and the Howe Mill also lie just to the northeast The old garage in the main street was used as a location for the television series, '' Cowbois ac Injans''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Herberts Populated places in the Vale of Glamorgan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Herbert (company)
Alfred Herbert Ltd was one of the world's largest machine tool manufacturing businesses. It was at one time the largest British machine tool builder.. History The business was founded in 1888 when Alfred Herbert and William Hubbard purchased for £2,375 a small engineering business in Coventry. ''Herbert & Hubbard'' initially made boilers and steam engines. The firm, in Roderick Floud's paraphrasing of Herbert,. "came into machine tool production by accident when Alfred Herbert secured the agency for a French patent of great value in the manufacture of tubes for the fast expanding cycle trade in Coventry. On the basis of his profits from this patent the company began to make machine tools for the cycle trade." In 1894 Hubbard was bought out and the business continued as ''Alfred Herbert Ltd'' focusing on machine tools. The number of employees rose from 180 in 1897 to 1,400 by 1908. Regarding the differences (real or supposed) between American and British practice in the latte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axalta
Axalta Coating Systems, Ltd., also known as simply Axalta, is an American company specializing in coatings in a wide variety of industrial applications, materials and sectors, such as for example automotive paints. The company is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and incorporated in Bermuda. Axalta develops and manufactures coatings for light and commercial vehicles, industrial, and refinish applications. The firm does business in 130 countries, has nearly 13,000 employees, and has more than 100,000 customers. Axalta traces its origins to the German firm Herberts Gmbh, which began in 1866 coating carriages before moving to automotive painting. Through later mergers the company became DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC), part of the American DuPont chemical empire, and was rebranded as Axalta Coating Systems after being purchased by The Carlyle Group in 2013. Axalta went public on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2014 and since then has become fully independent. Carly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
