Bemberg

JP Bemberg AG was a traditional German textile company, which went up in 1971 by the merger with Glanzstoff AG in the Enka AG.

History

1792 founded the merchant Johann Peter Bemberg in Elberfeld (now Wuppertal to ) a wine shop, which developed into a Turkey-red dyeing on trade in dyes, cotton and wool.

The husband of his granddaughter Therese, Friedrich Platzhoff, the company moved in 1865 after Öhde and expanded by start-ups or acquisitions of factories in Barmen ( today Wuppertal), Krefeld and Augsburg, Mechanical Art silk weaving, which emerged from the acquired 1896 Weaving Max Triepke. In 1903 it was converted to a stock corporation under the name " J. P. Bemberg AG ".

From 1900 Emil Thiele the stretch-spinning process for copper silk ( DRP. No. 154 507 and 157 157 ) begins with attempts to develop what in 1904 led to the start of production of copper rayon production and from 1909., Even after the now production-ready stretch-spinning method In the following years, exclusive copper rayon was produced, because the dyeing was added in 1918 finally on. In the early 1930s began with the production of the Bemberg Bemberg cellophane " Cuprophan ." International offices, including in Italy, Bemberg SpA, Milan, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, Beaunit Mills Inc., New York, carried out.

1925, the majority shareholding was acquired by the United Glanzstoffabriken AG who worked since 1916 due to contractual agreements with Bemberg. Glanzstoff are in the period following the copper process completely on, except for the production of copper Sirius ( a monofilament thread in stark titer sg artificial. Horsehair ), which is still maintained for some time. In the same year Glanzstoff and Bemberg found the American Bemberg Corporation New York with factory in Johnson City / Tenn. Also, both companies participate in the formation of the Seta Bemberg SA in Gozzano / Italy. Since 1927, the company focused on the art of silk production. 1929 founded together with Glanzstoff and the Asahi Kenshoku Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Bemberg Kenshi Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka. The two Japanese companies are for 1933 Asahi Bemberg Rayon Co. pooled. 1940 reports the Bemberg » Dureta " process for the continuous production of artificial silk by the copper method for a patent (DRP 763 735 ). During World War II the production of parachute silk predominated (up to 40 tons of silk per day, 4,400 employees).

On March 13, 1945 70 % of the production facilities were destroyed in an air raid. With the end of the war lost the foreign branches. 1946 was a new company with about 300 employees. The production flourished with Perlon, starting in 1962, but sales of Glanzstoff and cuprammonium silk Bemberg ®, cuprophane, Bemberg Lavabel and tissues of the mechanical art silk weavers in Augsburg under his own name. In 1963 it reached 3,083 employees generated sales of 100 976 000 DM capital at this time was 45 million DM of which had the VGF 80.8 %, the AKU 8.7 % interest and free shareholders 10.5%. Against 1969 were back about 3,800 employees busy. 1971 merged with Bemberg Glanzstoff AG, the new company operated under Enka Glanzstoff AG.