In 1971, the company installed the largest mainframe computer in Britain, linking a network of computers throughout the country, and sold computer time to outside customers. It established subsidiaries and joint ventures in Jamaica, the Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden and Spain for a number of products which included transformers, magnetising equipment, frozen foods, stable isotopes, radioactively labelled compounds and cryogenic systems. With the plan of expanding into the Far East, it set up British Oxygen (Far East) Ltd, based in Tokyo. Muirhead Ltd, quick-frozen food suppliers, in 1969. It also acquired Ace Refrigeration Ltd and J. One was the refrigeration market and it set up a joint venture called BOC-Linde Refrigeration Ltd., with Linde AG of Germany in 1968. This meant a further increase in business for BOC.īOC diversified into many industries in the 1960s and '70s. In the 1950s, due to the increased demand for automobiles, improved methods of manufacturing steel were invented which required "tonnage" oxygen. After the war, BOC formed subsidiaries in over twenty countries. As in the First World War, the business grew. In the post-war period, it grew by acquisitions, which included Sparklets Ltd, Allen-Liversidge Ltd and the Quasi-Arc Company.ĭuring the Second World War, the gases for munitions and for medical needs were provided by BOC. During the First World War, the business increased significantly as the mass production of needed war machinery-ships, tanks and trucks-involved either metal cutting or welding.
In 1906, the Brin brothers renamed the company the British Oxygen Company, or BOC. The new process replaced the inefficient barium oxide process, paving the way for larger-scale and more efficient production.Īs BOC and expansion (1906–1978) In exchange, von Linde was given a stake and a board position in Brin's Oxygen Company, which he held until 1914. The Brin brothers negotiated an agreement to use the Linde patents. The German engineer and founder of the Linde Group, Carl von Linde, won the patent for the process. Around the same time, new cryogenic air separation processes had been devised independently in Britain, the United States and Germany. The main application for gaseous oxygen at that time was in connection with the generation of limelight, used in magic lanterns and theatre lighting.Ī major new market emerged around 1903, with the development of the oxyacetylene welding process. In the early years, the company manufactured oxygen using a high-temperature barium oxide process, known as the Brin process, developed from the work of French scientist Jean-Baptiste Boussingault. was formed in 1886, by two French brothers, Arthur and Leon Brin. History Early years as Brin's Oxygen Company (1886–1905) īrin's Oxygen Company, Ltd. 1.4 Part of the Linde Group (2006–present).1.1 Early years as Brin's Oxygen Company (1886–1905).
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