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* Billingham ( in Stockton-on-Tees ) and Wilton ( in present day Redcar and Cleveland ): ICI used the site to manufacture fertilisers in the 1920s and went on to produce plastics at Billingham in 1934.

During World War II it manufactured Synthonia, a synthetic ammonia for explosives.

The ICI Billingham Division was split into the ICI Heavy Organic Chemicals Division and ICI Agricultural Division in the 1960s.

From 1971 to 1988 ICI Physics and Radioisotopes Section ( later known as Tracerco ) operated a small General Atomics TRIGA Mark I nuclear reactor at its Billingham factory for the production of radioisotopes used in the manufacture of flow and level instruments, among other products.