It’s History
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008With the weather like this I’ve been wistfully casting my mind back to sunny drought-ridden summers of the past and so, in this historical frame of mind I thought I’d share this from the dim and distant past of Droyt Soap Factory.
In the d and d past we had some really interesting products, like moulded soaps and lemon shapes and all sorts. In Germany we used to have a whole department making wooden cartons for shipment by rail all over Europe. I’ve got some photos somewhere which I must scan. That’s on the same list as my videos of Droyt’s manufacturing techniques on You Tube project. Then, of course, there’s the rationalising of lists of unlikely projects project. Maybe that should be in capitals. The ROLOUP project.
Here’s a scan of an old price list from when the factory was in Berlin. I think it must been after the end of hyperinflation as it doesn’t look too expensive.
S Danischewsky & CO GmbH Danico Feinseifenfabrik BERLIN-HALENSEE Joachim-Friedrich-Str. 37 
After Euro 2008 and Wimbledon (not to mention the one day series against NZ, which I’m not going to mention), it’s 30 days to the Olympics, so more than enough time for pollution control in the Beijing area by closing factories and banning cars from the roads. Apparently the world shortage of synthetic Vitamin E (which we use in our soap as an anti-oxidant) has been caused by factory relocation for the Olympics. Some ridiculous figure like 80 percent of the world’s Vitamin E comes from the Beijing area. The price has gone by more than 10 times in the last few months.
My next post may well be about raw material increases, so prepare to be bored as I rant on about biofuels and sustainable palm oil.
Alistair