Degussa goes America | 食品添加物合法業者資訊網

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There, next to his living quarters, the 26-year-old Franz Roessler set up a small laboratory in which on July 1 he began producing gold foil for decorating porcelain and glass. The younger brother of Degussa’s two founders, Hector and Heinrich Roessler, had only immigrated to the United States shortly before. He had been given 30,000 Mark to take with him by the supervisory board of the Frankfurt-based company with instructions to establish a business in North America and meet the growing demand in the U.S. porcelain and glass industry for high-quality decorations.

Within a very short time, Franz Roessler was so successful that Degussa decided to expand its activities to include the distribution of chemical products. To this end, Jakob Hasslacher, who had done a commercial apprenticeship at the Frankfurt headquarters, traveled to New York. When he, too, demonstrated rapid success, Degussa decided as ear...