Hahnemühle

The company Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH with its headquarters in Lower Saxony Dassel ( district Relliehausen ) is a papierherstellendes companies. In the area of coated paper for ink jet printing Hahnemühle is the world market leader. Other business segments include production and distribution of artist papers for traditional Technique and filter papers for industry and research.

History

The company dates back to the establishment of a paper mill in Relliehausen am Solling in 1584 by the papermaker Merten spit. The approval was received from the sovereign, Duke Erich II, on 27 February 1584. It was founded on the river Ilme, the Solling offered the high quality paper decisive, particularly soft and pure spring water due to the filtration of the sandstone and provides up today. The well-known with regard to the earlier time in the literature as a paper mill or Relliehausen Dassel operation, initially only one of many of this kind between the Weser and Leine, was able to get a single one of them over the centuries.

By the year 1769 the factory remained in the possession of the spear family. On August 30, 1769 Johann Jacob Heinrich Andrae bought from Petershütte the paper mill for 4500 Reichsthaler. After the early death Andraes his son took over the mill. On August 13, 1884 HJ Heinemann acquired from Hanover, the paper mill by Oskar Andrae and immediately began the construction of a new production facility. As in this case were incurred unforeseen difficulties and costs, he finally felt compelled to issue the factory again and sold it to the Hahne family. Since the takeover by Carl Hahnemann in 1886, the company will continue to operate under its current name Hahnemühle.

In 1902, Hahnemühle merged with the firm Schleicher & Schuell from Düren, which was the sole owner in 1927.

During the Second World War, the paper makers and technicians of the company falsified on behalf of the Reich Security Main Office as part of Operation Bernhard successfully the banknote paper the British Pound.

2004 Hahnemühle from the corporate network Schleicher & Schuell has been released and has since independently again. It has subsidiaries in the United States, Britain, France and China.

Product Areas

Hahnemühle primarily manufactures high-quality fine art papers for digital inkjet prints and traditional painting and printing techniques. These are papers for painters, graphic artists, illustrators, bookbinders, photographers, print service providers that contain a rooster as a watermark.

Hahnemühle applies since the 1990s as the inventor of the Digital Fine Art inkjet papers. On the genuine artist papers that are coated with a special ink-receiving layer, created with durable pigment inks conservation valuable museum-quality prints. These papers and canvases are used for printouts exclusive photography, computer art and painting and photographic reproductions.

In addition, manufactures and sells the Hahnemühle technical specialty papers, for example, restoration and filter papers for research and Indurstrie, which are used in chemical and biological analyzes.