Sefar
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1833/1907 |
| Seat | Thal , Switzerland |
| management | Christoph Tobler ( CEO ) Rudolf Wehrli ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | approx. 2200 |
| sales | approx. CHF 330 million |
| Branch | Textile industry |
| Website | www.sefar.com |
The Sefar Holding AG , based in Thal is an on screen printing - and filtration applications specialized, internationally active Swiss group of companies. In the printing area it provides fabric from polyester and polyamide for screen printing and partially pre-coated fabrics for printing on compact discs and DVDs ago. In the field of filtration, Sefar produces filter fabrics for the process and food industry, for example for centrifuges , vacuum belt dryers , dryers and sieving machines . Sefar is active in 21 countries with subsidiaries and in another 75 countries with agencies.
history
The company was founded in 1907 and is still owned by the six founding families. However, their roots go back to 1830, when Pierre Antoine Dufour started the production of silk bag cloths for flour sieves in Thal in the canton of St. Gallen on behalf of Heinrich Bodmer, who became the richest Zurich citizen through silk gauze manufacture . Three years later, Dufour separated from Bodmer and founded his own company. After his death in 1842, his widow Anna Joséphine continued to run the silk bag factory and expanded it into a successful export company.
In 1907 six of the seven Swiss family businesses that had been created in the meantime merged to form the "Schweizerische Seidengazefabrik AG". Five years later, the “Züricher Beuteltuchfabrik AG” was added. The first important mainstay abroad was the «Fabrique Lionnaise de Soies à Bluter», founded in Panissières near Lyon in 1911. Another international hub was "Tobler, Ernst & Traber Inc.", acquired in 1932. in the USA, which was later renamed "Tetko". In the decades that followed, the company set up further foreign branches. In 1995 the "Schweizerische Seidengazefabrik AG", which until then had operated under different names, was renamed "Sefar".
literature
- «150 years of Switzerland. Seidengazefabrik AG Thal », in: Die Ostschweiz, June 18, 1983
Web links
- Sefar Holding AG website
- Katja Hürlimann: Bodmer (ZH, Zurich). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Peter Müller: Dufour, Pierre Antoine. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Peter Müller: Dufour [-Onofrio], Anna Joséphine. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Welcome to Sefar , Sefar website, accessed February 20, 2012.