History of Elementis Elementis was launched in 1998 as a highly focused international specialty chemicals group. History Harrisons and Crosfield plc, the pre-cursor to Elementis, was a large, diversified conglomerate. In 1997, the company directors took the decision to concentrate the business around its performance chemicals expertise and in 1998 relaunched as Elementis plc. Key events 1997 - return of capital - over ￡400 million returned to shareholders 1998 - exit from non core sectors - i...