The team folded at the end of the 1979 season, but Johnson was able to utilise some of its resources to establish his own team for the following season with financial hold from Johnson's long time friend Ross Palmer and his Brisbane-based business Palmer Tube Mills.
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In the following years the company s position in the export business, which was important from the beginning, was consolidated and expanded by the acquisition of the Mannesmann tube mill in Landore / Wales and by the founding of a Mannesmann tube mill in Dalmine / Italy.
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A tube mill is a revolving cylinder of up to five diameters in length used for fine pulverization of ore, rock, and other such materials; the material, mixed with water, is fed into the chamber from one end, and passes out the other end as a slurry.
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In the following years the company s position in the export business, which was important from the beginning, was consolidated and expanded by the acquisition of the Mannesmann tube mill in Landore / Wales and by the founding of a Mannesmann tube mill in Dalmine / Italy.
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In a settlement of federal antitrust charges, the FTC said Insilco will sell two of the five aluminum tube mills in South Carolina that it is buying from Germany's Helmut Lingemann GmbH, along with tooling, machinery and other equipment that a buyer would need to operate a competitive business.
