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1792 - 1899
In 1792 Johann Peter Bemberg, a merchant in Elberfeld, Germany, founded a yarn-dyeing company - Johann Peter Bemberg, Dyes - using the Turkey red process.
Some seventy years later, in 1865, his grandson Friedrich-Adolf Platzhoff built a new factory in the Oehde, to the east of Oberbarmen and some of the original factory buildings exist to the present day.
After the enterprise was expanded (to include piece dyeing in Barmen,
textile dyeing and finishing works in Krefeld and tinted weaving works in Augsburg), it became a public limited company with 2.4 million Marks share capital. The Bemberg company was renamed the J. P. Bemberg AG in 1903.
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textile dyeing and finishing works in Krefeld and tinted weaving works in Augsburg), it became a public limited company with 2.4 million Marks share capital. The Bemberg company was renamed the J. P. Bemberg AG in 1903.
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