Soap factory Sträuli
The soap factory Sträuli (also: Sträuli & Cie.) Was a Swiss company for detergents and cleaning agents in Winterthur .
history
The beginnings go back to a candle manufacturer founded by Johannes Sträuli in 1831 on Kirchplatz in Winterthur. The first expansion took place in 1835 with the relocation of the production facilities outside the city limits of Winterthur at the time. In 1883 a fire destroyed the factories on St. Georgenstrasse. In the course of the reconstruction of the factory, the development towards a chemical factory began. The final changeover to the manufacture of products obtained from the distillation of fatty acids took place under the third generation of the Sträuli family around 1900 and they moved into a new factory near the Winterthur-Grüze train station . As a manufacturer of glycerin , stearin and oleic acid , Sträuli soon became a well-known producer in Switzerland.
From 1925, management passed to the fourth generation of the Sträuli family. In the phase up to the Second World War , the company developed, among other things, the travel detergent "Express", which is still known today. The scarcity of raw materials during the Second World War and the switch to chemical detergents and dishwashing detergents designed for fully automatic washing machines after the war required high investments and a realignment of the company. From 1955, this led to a close cooperation with the Benckiser GmbH company in Ludwigshafen , whose products "Calgon" and "Calgonit" were from then on manufactured and sold under license. In the 1960s, the two cooperation partners got into financial difficulties, so they merged in 1967. Until then as a general partnership managed Swiss company was renamed to Sträuli AG. The production facilities in Winterthur were sold to Coop and from then on it was the sales organization for cleaning, dishwashing and laundry detergents without its own production. In 1979/1980 a high-bay warehouse, which was modern for the time, was built in Winterthur-Seen .
In 1999 "Reckitt & Coleman plc" merged with the Benckiser Group to form Reckitt Benckiser plc. Sträuli AG was then spun off from the group and withdrew entirely from Winterthur to a new location in Wädenswil . The company no longer has anything to do with the products and brands sold by Reckitt-Benckiser. It is now a real estate company and a staff welfare foundation for former employees of Sträuli AG.
literature
- Various authors: 150 years of Sträuli AG. Sträuli AG, Winterthur 1981.
Web links
- Sträuli AG, soap factory in Winterthur Glossary.
Individual evidence
- ^ René Bondt: Soap boiler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Commercial Register Office of the Canton of Zurich. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .