BAG Turgi
The BAG Turgi was a Swiss company based in Gebenstorfer district Vogelsang. Bronzewarenfabrik AG (BAG) was one of the largest lighting manufacturers in Europe in the 20th century. From 1909 to 1998 products for the lighting of streets, hotels and sports stadiums were manufactured ( Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer 1994 ).
Company history
In 1885 Wilhelm Egloff founded a company for the manufacture of household items in Zurich. In 1887 Albert Meierhofer and in 1888 Hermann Gaiser took a stake in the company that had been running the W. Egloff & Co. metal goods factory at Turgi station since 1890 . In 1900 it took over the buildings and the water rights concession of the former Limmattal cotton spinning mill in the Vogelsang area of the municipality of Gibstorf in order to manufacture lights there. In 1902 the company set up a foundry, which was enlarged in 1907. In the same year Meierhofer and Gaiser left the company and founded competing companies in Zurich . But they came back to Turgi as early as 1909 and founded the Schweizerische Broncewarenfabrik AG (BAG) together with the entrepreneurs Edmund Bebié and Wilhelm Egloff . Since 1918 the company name has been BAG Bronzewarenfabrik AG Turgi .
The company had great success in the 1920s when it had agencies and sales warehouses in Paris , Manchester , Milan and other European cities. Some of the lights manufactured by BAG are among the most striking objects in Swiss design history , such as the widespread Quick 1500 table lamp designed by the designer Alfred Müller , which is also known colloquially as the Swiss Bauhaus lamp .
In 1987 the company changed its name to BAG Turgi AG . In 1995 it was compelled to enter into an alliance with Siemens- Albis, and in the following years it sold various branches of business. The foundry was sold to Turgi Guss + Schilder AG , aluminum processing to Hasler & Matter AG and the hydroelectric power station on the Limmat Canal to Hydroelectra AG .
In 1998 the successor company BAG Turgi Electronics was established , which relocated to Arnsberg in 2002 for the further production of ballasts for fluorescent lamps under the name BAG electronics GmbH .
In the end, the company reduced its business activities to the management of company real estate in Vogelsang. It now operates as BAG Immobilien .
Industrial culture
After the end of the production of lights in Vogelsang, the company handed over its historical product collection to the Museum Aargau .
