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1920s
1926
- Agricultural interests stepped up with the takeover of fertilizer importing companies, including one in Rhodesia
- Manufacture of ingredients for cattle dips, sprays and insecticides begins
- First paint manufacturing commences (Durban)
1924
- African Explosives and Industries (AE&I) registered as a company on 21 March, with headquarters in Johannesburg. Formed by a merger between the South African interests of Nobel Industries (UK) and the manufacturing arm of De Beers Consolidated of Kimberley.
Primary purpose is to provide blasting explosives and detonators to the gold and diamond mines but AE&I is also the only South African producer of phosphatic fertilizer. Factories at Modderfontein, Transvaal (1896), Somerset West, Cape of Good Hope (1903) and Umbogintwini, Natal (1908)
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