Sax colors

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Sax-Farben, public company

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legal form Corporation
founding 1889
Seat Streaks
management Maja Sax ( Chairman of the Board of Directors )
André Sax (Managing Director)
Number of employees 30th
sales 10 million CHF
Branch Paint and lacquer manufacturer
Website sax.ch
As of December 31, 2013

Sax-Colors is a Swiss colors - and paint manufacturer based in Schlieren . The company has been the only Swiss manufacturer of artist oil paints since 1935.

history

The company was founded in 1889 by the businessman Jakob Sax and his wife Anna Wyss as Sax-Wyss & Cie. founded in Basel . It produced oil paints and traded in color pigments and oils.

In 1912 they moved into the new domicile at Urdorf train station in the canton of Zurich . It was there that Jakob Sax began producing two-component mineral paints based on silicate . He developed more than a dozen patents, including a paint press for transporting and using oil paints. The company operates the only mill still in existence in Switzerland.

In 1935 his son Willy Sax took over the company. He supplemented the range with artist oil paints based on his own recipes. This made the brand name Sax known in artistic circles beyond the Swiss borders. Cuno Amiet began painting with sax colors as early as the 1930s .

During a visit to Switzerland in 1946 , the British statesman and painter Winston Churchill wanted to get to know his paint supplier personally and invited Willy Sax to the Grand Hotel Dolder . A friendship with mutual visits arose from this encounter. There were also exchanges and encounters with artists such as Hermann Hesse and Oskar Kokoschka . For some artists even special tones were mixed, such as B. a special red-violet for Richard Paul Lohse or a royal blue for Winston Churchill.

In 1954, Willy Sax converted the company into a stock corporation. After Willy Sax's death, his daughter Maja took over the company in 1964.

Milling mill for pigment processing (2014)

In 1975 Sax-Farben developed a silicone resin paint in its own research laboratory , which was first introduced in Switzerland and then throughout Europe, and a patent was applied for in 1977. In addition to the aesthetic effect, the «Hydrosil» color system provides vapor-permeable protection for facades from moisture, which preserves the value of the building fabric and extends the renovation cycles. In addition, there were other mineral paint systems for building painting, which makes Sax-Farben the only Swiss manufacturer of two-component mineral paints today.

André Sax, son of Maja Sax, joined the company in 1975. He took over the management in 1996 and continues the family business in the fourth generation.

The interior silicate paint "KaliSan" was in 2005 the first Swiss color with the nature plus - eco-labels awarded. The company has also been a long-standing provider in the field of restoration of historical buildings. In 2011 and 2012, Sax-Farben organized two conferences on monument protection. a. were visited by employees of the building department of the canton of Zurich. For the restoration of the Nikolaikirche Potsdam , the lime paints were mixed for the listed paint at Sax-Farben in Switzerland.

literature

Web links

Commons : Sax colors  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sax-Farben, Aktiengesellschaft  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Internet excerpt, Commercial Register of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on October 4, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / zh.powernet.ch  
  2. ↑ a b media information
  3. ↑ a b Eugenie Holliger, Christina Sieg and Jörg Krichbaum : Swiss Standards: 100 products and objects in Switzerland that represent the whole as a prominent part. Names and terms that represent the quality of the Swiss economy. Werd Verlag, Thun / Gwatt 1994, p. 48.
  4. ↑ Patent search "Jakob Sax" at the European Patent Office , accessed on December 6, 2016
  5. ↑ U.S. Patent 1,544,938, filed June 18, 1923.
  6. ↑ Wilma Fasola: Sax it with color. Punkt Magazin 3/2014, pp. 68–69.
  7. ^ Adèle Tatarinoff-Eggenschwiler: Cuno Amiet: A painter's life. Vogt-Schild, Solothurn 1958, p. 88.
  8. ^ Reginald Augustus Langford: England - Switzerland undecided: How a Briton got to know the Confederates. Diogenes, Zurich 1957, pp. 133-134.
  9. ^ Sophie Rüesch: Urdorf: Winston Churchill and Willy Sax: a kingdom for three shades , Limmattaler Zeitung , October 29, 2015.
  10. ^ Philipp Gut: Champagne with Churchill , Die Weltwoche , edition 44/2015.
  11. ↑ Color as a product , Sax artist paints
  12. ^ Rainer Blasius : Churchill and Switzerland: Royal Blue for Sir Winston , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 21, 2015.
  13. ^ Silicone facade paint, a new coating system , Schweizerische Bauzeitung 1976, issue 4, G 11; Digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-periodica.ch%2Fdigbib%2Fview%3Fpid%3Dsbz-002%3A1976%3A94%3A%3A936%23936~GB%3D~IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D
  14. ↑ Swiss patent CH618462, signed on 14 October 1977th
  15. ↑ Austrian Patent AT374815, filed on November 9, 1978th
  16. ↑ 40 years of silicone resin paints in Switzerland , Applica 5/2014, trade journal for the Swiss painting and plastering trade.
  17. ↑ Malerblatt des Malerunternehmerverband Luzern und Umgebung, December 2005, p. 4.
  18. ↑ Certificate 0602-0508-049-1 at baubook.at, accessed on September 1, 2016.
  19. ↑ Archithese 1/2006, p. 101
  20. ↑ Second monument protection day at the company Sax ( Memento from October 1, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ), Sax-Farben.
  21. ↑ Activity report on archeology and monument preservation 2012 , Office for Spatial Development, Canton of Zurich, PDF, p. 19.
  22. ^ Günter Schenke: Nikolaikirche: 2000 liters of paint mixed in Switzerland , Potsdamer Latest News , September 1, 2011
  23. ↑ Review notes on champagne with Churchill. The Zurich paint manufacturer Willy Sax and the painting Prime Minister at perlentaucher.de
  24. ↑ Werner Vogt: The painting premier and the paint manufacturer , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 5, 2015, p. 43.

Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '28 "  N , 8 ° 26' 11.9"  E ; CH1903:  675350  /  249400