Grisuten
Grisuten is a trade name for the polyester fiber PE. In the GDR , grisuten was a widely used raw material in the clothing industry.
The synthetic fiber PE was first developed in England in 1946 and was given the trade name Grisuten in the GDR at the end of the 1960s. Companies that marked their textiles with Grisuten were members of the "Trademark Association for Plastic Products of the GDR eV". Grisuten (older name: Lanon ) had similar performance properties as the polyamide fiber Dederon . In the consumer goods sector, Grisuten was particularly suitable for the production of so-called low-maintenance blouses, for raincoats, suit, costume and skirt fabrics, curtains and swimwear. Other end products were filters, tarpaulins and artificial arteries. The advertisements highlighted the effortless cleaning (especially compared to cotton clothing), which no longer required starching and ironing.
The starting product for the Grisuten outerwear, terephthalic acid , was produced in the Schwedt oil processing plant and processed further in Premnitz . In 2017, Grisuten fibers are still being produced at this location by Märkische Faser GmbH (Grisuten is their registered trademark ).
Terephthalic acid filled in sacks, the raw material for Grisuten.
"Jugend73" fashion, made from the "new, easy-care and hard-wearing fabric Grisuten-esturan".
Advertising for fashion from Grisuten in the Centrum Warenhaus Berlin 1975.
Web links
- History of the chemical fiber industry of the German Democratic Republic
- www.alltagskultur-ddr.de: Chemization of everyday life - the change in the everyday world through plastic products
Individual evidence
- ^ The large lexicon of GDR advertising (page 129), Simone Tippach-Schneider, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-539-2 .
- ^ History of the chemical fiber industry in the German Democratic Republic
- ^ History of the Märkische fiber GmbH