Cosalt, the UK-listed consumer products manufacturer, may entertain offers for some of their non core peripheral businesses, including the Ballyclear childrenswear division. Cosalt's main areas of bus... [more]

The Hunter Rubber Company, the Scottish wellington boot manufacturers, has entered administration. According to KPMG, the administrator, Hunter has already received as many as four approaches from pot... [more]

Polaron has sold Oxford Nanoscience to Imago Scientific Instruments of the US for £2.5m. With the acquisition, Imago now holds almost all of the worldwide patents for such instruments, said Imago pres... [more]

Bekaert of Belgium has acquired Cold Drawn Products, the West Yorkshire-based wire manufacturer with 170 staff, for £12m. Cold Drawn Products (CDP) supplies its high carbon steel shaped wire product t... [more]