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…a silk-dyeing business owned by Alexander Clavel, who began manufacturing the synthetic dye fuchsine in 1859. In 1873 Clavel sold his business to a partnership, Bindschedler & Busch, which expanded the range of dyestuffs produced.
Ecstasy of colors. When Alexander Clavel – a Basel resident by adoption – relocated from Kleinbasel to Klybeck quarter, the stage was set for the rise of the city’s chemicals industry. Yet, the formula that made his start-up successful was not his own, rather a copy-cat version of a French invention – something which wasn’t unusual at that time.
Mar 22, 2013 · Clavel was a Frenchman who resettled in Basel because that city, situated strategically on the Rhine River between Germany and France, was a thriving center of the textile trade.
Alexander Clavel had laid the foundation for these successes in 1864 with the first dye factory in Klybeck. For a long time thereafter, until the first decades of the 20th century, dyes remained the most important and lucrative business segment for companies such as Ciba, Geigy and Sandoz.
In 1859, Alexander Clavel (1805-1873) takes up the production of fuchsine, a synthetic dye, in his silk dyeing factory in Basel, Switzerland.
6 days ago · Meanwhile in Basel, in 1859, Alexander Clavel took up the production of fuchsine in a silk dyeing factory, before selling the factory to Bindschedler & Busch in 1873.
Apr 25, 2014 · Alexander Clavel’s little dye company was already an international giant by the time Ciba built a sprawling factory at the edge of the New Jersey pinelands in 1952. By then, there was already...
