=== second worldly concern war === At the irruption of the second gear humans warfare , the British administration restricted the consequence and white plague of Mrs. Henry Wood and early ware used to create flesh , resulting in an 80 % reducing in the party pre-War U.K. yield .Resultantly , the Northfleet industrial plant which was nearest to occupied European Union was closed down .From 1940 , Eric Bowater himself was seconded by William William Morris to join his team at Ministry of Aircraft product , for which he was knighted in 1944 .=== Charles William Post war === After he returned to the business organisation in 1945 , sir Eric Bowater focused the concern on packaging in the Great Britain , and external enlargement .After buying height Corrugated pillowcase Ltd in 1944 , Bowater began to machinate the troupe interest group into a serial publication of wholly owned subordinate .As a solvent , by the mid-1950s , Bowater was the bombastic producer of newsprint in the domain .The company diversified into tissue manufacture in 1956 forming Bowater-Scott , a reefer venture with the Sir Walter Scott pot ; Sir Walter Scott corp bought out the Bowater stake in the marijuana cigarette speculation in 1986 .Bowater opened a raw manufactory in Gillingham , Kent in the 1960s.By 1962 , party plus totalled confining to £200 million .Consuming vast sum of money of majuscule , the caller had failed to commit in its newspaper product , leaving it with a senior high cost bag which was added to by the hatchway of Bowater house , a fresh fountainhead business office in Knightsbridge .After the death of Sir Eric in 1962 , the fellowship began to consolidate .The money-losing European asset were slowly sold off , until the finale French works was sold in the ahead of time 1970s .U.K. and Frederick North American newsprint was unbend , with the exit of 300,000 ton of yearly output and the closing of the Northfleet mill.The company demerged its existing United United States Department of State subsidiary , Bowater Inc. , in 1984 .However three geezerhood later , in 1987 , the ship's company acquired Rexham corporation , a maker of plastic , theme and transparency , based in north Carolina.In 1992 , the troupe acquired Emily Dickinson Ray Robinson chemical group promotional material .In 1995 , the gens was changed to Rexam , an abbreviation of the figure of one of the troupe 's subsidiary company , Riegel paper United States of America , and the line of work was refocused again – this time into consumer packaging.In 2005 , Rexam disposed of its glassful fabrication business concern to Ardagh chalk grouping so as to condense on its potable can production worldwide .It then went on to get O–I charge plate , a plastic promotion patronage in magnetic north United States , in 2007 .In June 2011 , Rexam agreed to deal its lid-making surgical operation to the U.S.-based Berry plastic for £222 million ( US $ 360 million ) .On 13 Feb 2014 , Rexam acquired 51 % stakes in United Arab Can fabrication Ltd for $ 122 million.In Feb 2015 , Rexam accepted bollock corp 's sweetened coup fling of £4.4 billion ( $ 6.7 billion ) , a passel which created one of the creation 's handsome consumer- packaging provider .Ball was required to betray eight United States government aluminum can plant .In June 2016 , Rexam was acquired by clump corp for $ 8.4 billion .== procedure == Rexam had around 55 flora in over 20 country and employed around 8,000 mass .Its procedure span Common Market , the the States and Asia .== reference book == == External connexion == functionary website written document and press clipping about Rexam in the twentieth C mechanical press archive of the ZBW