Max Hubacher plays a Swiss industrialist Johann, having learned that Alfred's health is failing, offers to take over the management of the textile mill. Johann is convinced that the future of the industry is in synthetic materials.
Read MoreThese works once belonged to Emil Georg Bührle, a Swiss industrialist who died in 1956 but whose dark legacy haunted the opening of the new $220-million extension. Although it has long been known...
Read MoreDuisburg's Küppersmühle is also the result of the Swiss architecture studio's skillful redesign of an existing industrial building – done around the same time too (the Tate launched in 2000 and the Duisburg project in 1999). The original structure on site was a grain mill, built in 1860 by leading local industrialist Wilhelm Vedder.
Read MorePerhaps it's the kind of dark, satanic mill the industrialist owned and where he recently gave thousands the sack, but his friend and fellows don't concern themselves with that. They need paychecks. Nino's friend is a squat, broad man of the earth. They and the others bitch about the Swiss, but Nino defends them.
Read MoreBy this time, a Swiss industrialist called M de Gonzenbach had bought the premises. He halted the activity at the source and reconsidered. He decided that the source was to become a thermal hotel, with an extra floor added to the building, a new wing built for entertainment of the guests and the garden transformed into an agreeable pleasure park.
Read MoreSwiss style machines were later developed and produced on a larger scale in the 1880's by industrialist Nicolas Junker who founded the company Junker & Cie in Moutier, Switzerland. Although the company has gone through many names changes it remains a viable machine tool manufacturer today and is known as Tornos, SA.
Read MoreComment. As a former tubemaking engineer in Petrotub SA Roman (having 2 Stiefel Process mills and 1 Mannesmann Process mill), I knew that in 1935 year a romanian industrialist named Nicolae Malaxa went in US at Aetna Standard to meet Stiefel and to contract a 6 inches Stiefel Process mill-which started making tubes in Bucharest during 1938 year at Malaxa Works.
Read MoreThe Zurich Kunthaus Museum became the largest art museum in Switzerland with a new extension which includes the masterpieces once owned by Emil Georg Bührle, a Swiss industrialist who died in 1956 but whose dark legacy haunted the opening of the new $220-million extension.
Read MorePhilippe Suchard (9 October 1797 – 14 January 1884) was a Swiss chocolatier and industrialist . Contents 1 Biography 2 Chocolat Suchard 3 Other interests 4 Legacy 5 References 6 External links Biography Philippe Suchard was born in 1797 in Boudry. Six years later he started as an apprentice in his brother Frédéric's Konditorei in Bern.
Read MoreConception, construction, production, start-up, service and training – FEHLMANN incorporates all of these values under one roof at the main works in Seon/Switzerland. This adds up to highly precise milling machines that are convincing due to their well-thought out ergonomics, compelling reliability and compact construction.
Read MoreFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jakob Heusser-Staub (3 March 1862 – 23 August 1941 as Jakob Heusser) was a Swiss industrialist and philanthropist. …
Read MoreIn 1962, With the commencement of operations first flour mill in Chennai, India, Kollur Sreenivasan made the transition from a trader to an industrialist. He was quick to capitalize on the misfortune of the local competition and flexible enough to …
Read MoreeISBN: 9780191737138. Read More. Jump to a year: BCE CE. Year. Event. 1800. Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism. Go to Owen, Robert in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)
Read MoreBetter known by its nickname Hartera, the Rijeka Paper Mill used to be one of the focal points in the city renowned for its (former) industrial glory. Founded by a local industrialist in 1821 and further expanded by foreign investors, the …
Read MoreCarlo Reda, an industrialist from the Piedmont region of Italy, transforms an old mill in Valdilana (in the Biella province) into a veritable wool mill. This marks the beginnings of Reda, which will become a in industry leader in Merino wool textiles. For the first time, Reda acquires wool from Australia to produce top quality fabrics.
Read MoreThe industrialist over the weekend announced a restructuring of his Australian operations with the Swiss bank, which funnelled more than $1bn to Gupta through its suite of …
Read MoreThe mill closed down in 1972. The Museum Küppersmühle (MKM), a project by Herzog & de Meuron dating from 1999, was the first milestone in the transformation of the Inner Harbour into an attractive focus of urban life. As a museum, the former mill, with its historic brick elevations, became the centre of a new, high-grade, multi-use inner-city ...
Read MoreDecember 15, 2021 Brooklyn Eagle History. ON THIS DAY IN 1918, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, "PARIS (A.P.) — This is a greater night in Paris than armistice night. The city is ablaze with ...
Read MoreThyssen, Sachs and Rothschild are among Switzerland's largest law firm clients. Little did Zurich-based lawyer Peter Hafter imagine how things would turn out when he ordered a $2,700 offshore kit to create a front company in the Cook Islands on September 13, 1993. Twenty years on from that day, the fax he sent, the ensuing emails and all his ...
Read MoreFritz Schlumpf was a wealthy Swiss industrialist that owned several successful textile mills in Mulhouse, France. He also happened to be obsessed with cars, most notably Bugattis. I've heard ...
Read MoreHistory tells us that the original name of the Mill was Springwell Forge, so named by George Eckert in the late 1700s. In The History of Lancaster County first published in 1883 by Frank Ellis and Evans, the name was changed to The Osceola Mill by Martin Rohrer, who purchased the property in 1875.
Read MoreBy the late 1870s, the industrialist Nicolas Junker produced this on a larger, industrial scale. In fact, the Bienne area remains a hub for the Swiss watchmaking industries with industry leaders Rolex, Swatch, Omega headquartered there. Modern CNC Swiss machining offers a wide range of advantages and capabilities.
Read MorePhilippe Suchard was born in 1797 in Boudry. Six years later he started as an apprentice in his brother Frédéric's Konditorei in Bern. In 1824 he left Switzerland to visit the United States, writing a book about his experiences. At the end of the year he returned and opened a confectioner's business in Neuchâtel.
Read More2019 The « Swiss Team » led by a Swiss industrialist, acquires the business of Swissmetal, effective on Swiss National Day (1 August 2019), taking over the entire personnel on both sites. The ambition and the vision of the new Swiss owners is to boost the image and the business of this flagship of the Swiss industry.
Read MoreThese works once belonged to Emil Georg Bührle, a Swiss industrialist who died in 1956 but whose dark legacy haunted the opening of the new $220-million extension. Although it has long been known that Bührle made his fortune by selling arms to Nazi Germany, and that he bought art that was looted by the regime, new revelations keep emerging.
Read MoreTravelling to see the mill in all its glory ... in the southern French town of Aureilhan was built in 1873 by industrialist Laurence ... The refinery was then sold on …
Read More1997: Winterthur and Credit Suisse Group merge. 2001: Winterthur International is sold to XL Capital Ltd. 2002: Winterthur acquires Luxembourg-based Premier Life. Company History: Winterthur Group is the largest life and nonlife insurance company in Switzerland, selling a broad range of insurance products. The company operates on a worldwide ...
Read MoreSwiss industrialist Emil Georg Bührle, the longterm chairman and majority shareholder of the Oerlikon-Bührle AG and of German origin, was a German sympathizer. During the 1920s, Hitler personally earned a great deal of money in Switzerland.
Read MoreSwiss industrialist Alfred Kusser Kappeler who was kidnapped at his home in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, on Monday evening (7 June) was released by his captors the following evening.
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