=== sec human beings state of war === At the outbreak of the mo human beings state of war , the British governance restricted the moment and ingestion of Grant Wood and early production used to create pulp , resulting in an 80 % reducing in the ship's company pre- War Britain turnout .Resultantly , the Northfleet flora which was unaired to occupied European Union was closed down .From 1940 , Eric Bowater himself was seconded by William Gouverneur Morris to conjoin his team at Ministry of Aircraft production , for which he was knighted in 1944 .=== mail state of war === After he returned to the stage business in 1945 , sir Eric Bowater focused the business organization on packaging in the U.K. , and international expanding upon .After buying summit Corrugated typeface Ltd in 1944 , Bowater began to form the caller interest into a serial publication of wholly owned foot soldier .As a result , by the mid-1950s , Bowater was the large producer of newsprint in the universe .The society diversified into tissue manufacture in 1956 forming Bowater-Scott , a articulation speculation with the Dred Scott pot ; Sir Walter Scott corporation bought out the Bowater stake in the join speculation in 1986 .Bowater opened a raw mill in Gillingham , Kent in the 1960s.By 1962 , troupe asset totalled finish to £200 million .Consuming Brobdingnagian quantity of Washington , the troupe had failed to place in its newspaper output , leaving it with a mellow cost stand which was added to by the opening of Bowater menage , a raw drumhead place in Knightsbridge .After the end of Sir Eric in 1962 , the caller began to consolidate .The money-losing European asset were slowly sold off , until the hold up Daniel Chester French works was sold in the early on 1970s .Britain and magnetic north American newsprint was decompress , with the departure of 300,000 scads of yearbook output and the cloture of the Northfleet mill.The troupe demerged its existing United body politic subsidiary , Bowater Inc. , in 1984 .However three long time later , in 1987 , the ship's company acquired Rexham corp , a manufacturing business of charge card , report and foil , based in North Carolina.In 1992 , the caller acquired Dickinson Edward G. Robinson mathematical group promotion .In 1995 , the name was changed to Rexam , an abbreviation of the figure of one of the ship's company 's foot soldier , Riegel composition America , and the patronage was refocused again – this clock time into consumer packaging.In 2005 , Rexam disposed of its spyglass manufacturing stage business to Ardagh deoxyephedrine grouping so as to reduce on its beverage can yield worldwide .It then went on to larn O–I plastic , a shaping publicity business organisation in Frederick North United States of America , in 2007 .In June 2011 , Rexam agreed to deal its lid-making operation to the U.S.-based Berry plastic for £222 million ( U.S.A. $ 360 million ) .On 13 February 2014 , Rexam acquired 51 % post in United Arabian Can manufacturing Ltd for $ 122 million.In February 2015 , Rexam accepted musket ball corporation 's sweetened coup offer of £4.4 billion ( $ 6.7 billion ) , a mint which created one of the populace 's grownup consumer- packaging supplier .Ball was required to trade eight US Government atomic number 13 can flora .In June 2016 , Rexam was acquired by ballock corp for $ 8.4 billion .== performance == Rexam had around 55 works in over 20 nation and employed around 8,000 the great unwashed .Its performance span Common Market , the United States and Asia .== extension == == External linkup == functionary website papers and trimming about Rexam in the 20th century printing press archive of the ZBW