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Low & Bonar is to sell its Bonar Floors contract flooring business to Forbo Holding of Switzerland for £123m, with the transfer of up to 760 staff. 31-Jul-2008 Low & Bonar is to acquire Westbond, the Barnsley-based flooring and fibres manufacturer, from Cambrosa Holdings for up to £11m. 09-Jan-2008 Low & Bonar is to acquire MTX Group, the German manufacturer of technical coated fabrics with 600 staff, for £119m. 30-Nov-2007 Low & Bonar is to acquire Colbond Investments, the Dutch non-woven textiles manufacturer, for £72m. 10-Jul-2006 Low & Bonar has acquired Geo-Tipptex, the Hungarian manufacturer of non-woven geotextiles, for £10m. 02-Mar-2006 Low & Bonar, the plastics and floorings manufacturer valued at more than £135m, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed company. 05-Dec-2005 Low & Bonar has bought assets of Threshold Floorings, the manufacturer of flooring products, out of administration for £0.1m. 21-Oct-2005 Low & Bonar is to sell its Bonar Plastics division, which has a network of 12 rotational moulding plants, to the Promens subsidiary of Atorka Group of Iceland for £26m. 20-Jul-2005 Low & Bonar has acquired Xirion, the Belgian manufacturer of artificial grass, for £9.4m. 18-Jul-2005 Low & Bonar has acquired LCM Construction Products, the polypropylene fibre manufacturer, for £13m. 08-Dec-2004 Gaskell is to sell its tile division, including sites in Lancashire and London, to Low & Bonar for £17m, while its carpet factory in Kidderminster is expected to close with the loss of 70 jobs. 29-Jan-2003 Low & Bonar has sold Spila, its loss-making Italian plastics subsidiary, to Albanova, for a nominal sum. 02-Aug-2002 Low & Bonar is to invest £1m expanding the capacity at its carpet yarns and artificial grass factory in Dundee. 11-Jul-2002 Low & Bonar is planning to expand its speciality materials business by spending up to £100m on a series of acquisitions this year. 21-Feb-2002 Low & Bonar is considering plans to shed up to 100 jobs at its Sheffield plant, in order to transfer production of plastic parts for off-road vehicles to continental Europe. 11-Jul-2001 Low & Bonar has sold its polymers business to Ineco Acrylics, the former ICI subsidiary, for £11m. 14-Jul-2000 Low & Bonar, the plastics and specialist materials company, is looking to spend up to £100m on acquisitions, and is particularly interested in floor coverings used in airports and hospitals. 12-Jul-2000 Low & Bonar has sold its European cartons business to Malbak of South Africa for £80m. 25-May-2000 Low & Bonar is in talks with venture capitalists and overseas trade buyers about the sale of its European packaging interests, in order to focus on speciality materials and plastics. 27-Apr-2000 Low & Bonar is planning to relocate its head office from Dundee to London, and sell off its European packaging business for about £60m. 16-Feb-2000 Low & Bonar is to sell eight North American industrial packaging plants to Hood Companies of the US for £80m. 01-Feb-2000 Low & Bonar is planning to sell its North American plastic bags operation by the end of November for about £80m, and 20 potential buyers have expressed an interest. 07-Jul-1999 Low & Bonar is looking to sell its North American industrial packaging business, which has sales of about £90m, in order to reduce debt. 10-Jun-1999 Low & Bonar has announced plans to restructure its plastics and packaging business, which is expected to lead to the sale of a number of non-core businesses. 30-Apr-1999 Low & Bonar has acquired two rotational moulding companies in the US - PDM Molding of Colorado and PDM Molding NW of Washington - for an initial £10m. 12-Mar-1999 Low & Bonar is undergoing a reorganisation of its packaging operation by building up its plastics and specialist materials interests, in response to tough market conditions. 08-Jul-1998 Low & Bonar is looking to build up its plastics and specialist materials businesses through acquisition, while its packaging business will be focused on folding cartons and packaging services in Europe and industrial packaging in North America. 18-Feb-1998 Low & Bonar is selling its European polyethylene film business to British Polythene Industries for £7.7m, and also announced a £13m restructuring of its UK carton and North American plastic sack businesses. 02-Dec-1997 Low & Bonar, the packaging company, has acquired Nuway, the flooring business, from BTR for £11m, and plans to make further acquisitions over the next year. 12-Aug-1997 Low & Bonar has lost a £40m a year carton supply contract with Kelloggs, which means it will have to review the future of its Manchester plant. 10-Jul-1997 Low & Bonar is in discussions with the Kelloggs cereal group to extend their successful UK relationship into three other European plants. 18-Feb-1997 Low & Bonar has acquired two Belgian makers of polypropylene yarns and fabrics - UCO Technical Fabrics and UCO Ostend Netting - for £9m. 23-Oct-1996 Low & Bonar, the packaging group, is to invest up to £30m this year on improving manufacturing processes. 09-Jul-1996 Low & Bonar has withdrawn from discussions to buy Rotonics Manufacturing, the plastic rotational moulding concern, as Rotonics has started discussions with another company that is offering a higher price. 10-Apr-1996 Low & Bonar has offered $33m for Rotonics Manufacturing, the US rotational mouldings concern, in order to increase its share of the US plastics market. 20-Feb-1996 Low & Bonar has acquired Ex-Press Plastics, the Norwich maker of glass fibre reinforced plastics, for £4.3m. 30-Nov-1995 Low & Bonar is increasing its investment in its Canadian subsidiary. 01-Sep-1995
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