Coarse textile
The company Grob Textile AG was founded in Horgen , in the canton of Zurich , Switzerland in 1864 and existed until 2010. It was one of the world's leading textile machine suppliers for harnesses (flat steel healds, heald frames, warp thread monitors and lamellas), which exports up to 95% were.
history
In 1864 Jakob Grob founded a weaving reed factory ( reed toothmaking) in the “Heubach” quarter in Horgen. After his death, his wife Regula Grob-Nägeli successfully continued the business with employee Samuel Vollenweider . In 1873 she moved the factory to Löwengasse.
After Samuel Vollenweider had founded his own company in 1880, his twenty-year-old son, Julius Grob (1864–1925), took over the management as a trained sheet maker. Soon he developed his own ideas and converted the leaf dentistry into a weaving harness factory. He succeeded in producing healds with the cold-rolled steel wire that was used for the reed teeth. After the attempts at the silk weaving school in Zurich and the mechanical weaving mill Adliswil MSA were successful, he was able to apply for his first patent for flat steel healds in 1889 .
In 1891 the sole proprietorship was transformed into the limited partnership Grob + Co. and in 1924 into a stock corporation. A personal insurance was created for the workers in 1925, which was expanded in 1931 with a staff welfare foundation. In 1934 the company A. Zipfel & Co. Lachen was taken over.
In 1943, the four textile machinery factories Grob, Schweiter, Stäubli and Vollenweider merged to form the sales and advertising association “Die 4 von Horgen” in order to overcome the difficulties of the time and to be able to maintain their independence.
After the Second World War , several subsidiaries were founded abroad: “Societa Grob Italiana SpA” (1949), “Grob Corporation” USA (1950) and “Nihon Grob Japan” (1973). In 1952 more than 300 people were employed.
In 1974 the production and administration buildings on Horgener Seestrasse were taken over by Wanner AG. Most of the employees continued to work at Grob. When Grob Thusis AG was founded, the Chur branch moved to Thusis into the factory acquired by Feller AG. Most of the former Feller employees found a job at Grob.
In 1991 the new factory building on Seestrasse was ready to move into. Around 1000 employees (half in Horgen) worked for Grob in 1993 for customers around the world.
In 2001 the German Groz-Beckert Group took over the company. In 2008 the company headquarters was relocated to Lachen. The global economic crisis hit the exporting textile industry particularly hard. In 2010 the factories in Horgen and Lachen had to be closed.
literature
- Mittex: the trade journal for textile yarn and fabric production in German-speaking Europe, volume 100, 1993, issue 5 digitized
Web links
- Arthur Schäppi: Grob-Fabrik is transformed into a commercial center in Seehallen. In: Zürichsee-Zeitung of March 29, 2016, accessed on December 28, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The reed presses the woven-in thread (weft thread) onto the finished fabric. The warp threads running in the longitudinal direction of the loom are passed through the slits in the fine metal leaves (leaf teeth) on the reed.
- ↑ All about Heubach - Horgner yearbook 2017.
- ↑ Anniversaries: From the 1000 year old Horgen. In: Communications about the textile industry: Swiss specialist publication for the entire textile industry, Volume 59, 1952, Issue 12.
- ↑ Mittex: the trade journal for textile yarn and fabric production in German-speaking Europe, Volume 100, 1993, Issue 5
- ↑ (SDA): 186 Grob-Textile-AG employees without work - The traditional Grob Textile AG will close its doors until mid-2010. In: Blick vom May 28, 2009, accessed on December 28, 2017.