Indigo Works Ellesmere Port Cheshire

We are informed that Messrs Meister, Lucius and Bruning Limited, the well-known German colour makers, have this week begun to manufacture synthetic indigo in their new English factory at Ellesmere Port on the Manchester Ship Canal, and that English indigo will forthwith be placed on the market. It will be remembered that in order to comply with the requirements of the new Patents Act, which comes into force on the 28^th inst, the firm bought from the Canal Company at the beginning of the year a site for a factory in which to manufacture indigo and other patented products. The constructional work was entrusted to Messrs Charles Heathcote and Sons, architects of Manchester, and was pushed forward with all possible speed, with the result that Messrs Meister, Lucius and Bráning are, we believe, the first foreign firm to have built and started a special factory in England for the working of English patents under the compulsory clauses of the new Act. It is understood that the British patents of the allied firm of Leopold Cassella and Company of HÅchst (Hoechst)  will be worked at the same factory, while those of another German group of chemical colour manufacturers will be worked at the factory which the Bayer Company is erecting at Port Sunlight. The cost of the factory at Ellesmere Port, including site and equipment, is said to be about £50,000. [Manchester Guardian 22 August 1908 page 12]

In 1916 the Ellesmere Port works of Meister Lucius and Bruning were sold, under the provisions of the Trading With the Enemy Acts, to Levinstein, Limited of Manchester.

Reference           Manchester Guardian 22 August 1908 page 12 Commercial Notes