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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.
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.
Their protest to the Basel City Council about the “pestilential stench” eventually led to a ban on production. Alexander Clavel reacted very quickly to this prohibition, as Walter Dettwiler explains: “Of course, Clavel did not want to lose the lucrative dye business.
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.
Henri Dreyfus, who was working for Hoffmann La Roche at the time, asks the entrepreneur Alexander Clavel-Respinger for financial support and assistance in the production of fireproof celluloid out of cellulose acetate.
Sep 20, 2013 · 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. Three years later, the...
