The Tanglefoot Company
The Tanglefoot Company was founded in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1885 and was one of the earliest manufacturers of environmentally friendly pesticides . The adhesive tape against flies made the company famous. In 2009 it was taken over by the Canadian company Contech Enterprises .
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history
In 1880, William Thum, a German chemist, began making fly paper in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He still had great difficulties with the production because the glue dried out too quickly. After handing over production to his four sons Otto, Hugo, William and Ferdinand, they took care of the further development of fly paper. They developed a mixture based on castor oil, resin and wax that lasted much longer and did not soak the backing paper. In 1887 they patented their now perfected fly paper and began exporting it to Europe. In 1909 the brothers sold the company. In 1923 it was renamed from "The O&W Thum Company" to "The Tanglefoot Company". As there were fewer and fewer flies and other insects in cities due to increasingly better hygiene, the product range was expanded to include environmentally friendly pesticides for agriculture. When it was taken over by Contech in 2009, the main production facility for Tanglefoot products was left in Grand Rapids.
In German literature, Robert Musil created a memorial to Tanglefoot flypaper in his text "The fly paper" from around 1913 ("The fly paper Tangle-foot is about thirty-six centimeters long and twenty-one centimeters wide; it is coated with a yellow, poisoned glue. .. ").
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Pest Management Pioneer, Tanglefoot, Acquired by Contech Enterprises ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release, October 26, 2009
- ↑ a b David A. Rider: Flypaper ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Heinz J. Drügh: In the text laboratory. The descriptive dialogue with the image medium in Robert Musil's fly paper . In: Matthias Luserke-Jaqui , Rosmarie Zeller (ed.): Musil-Forum: Studies on the Literature of Classical Modernism, Volume 27, 2001–2002, Walter de Gruyter 2003. S. 169, S.186 ("... die first version of the text comes from the Roman diary booklet with the number 7, which dates from the period between March 1913 and January 1914 ")
