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    Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken (VGF, United Rayon Factories) was a German manufacturer of artificial fiber founded in 1899 that became one of the leading...
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    of cuprammonium rayon for textiles started in 1899 in the Vereinigte Glanzstoff Fabriken AG in Oberbruch near Aachen.[citation needed] An improvement...
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  • of cuprammonium rayon for textiles started in 1899 in the Vereinigte Glanzstoff Fabriken AG in Oberbruch (near Aachen).[citation needed] Improvement by...
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  • rayon production advanced on an industrial scale. In 1899 Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken AG with headquarters in Elberfeld was founded. Eventually the...
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    known as Bemberg®. J. P. Bemberg came under the control of Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken and eventually disappeared after a series of mergers and divestitures...
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  • healthy trout within five minutes." In 1927–28 Courtaulds and Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken (VGF) gained control of the Italian rayon manufacturer SNIA Viscosa...
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    manufacturers. Fremery and Urban became involved in developing synthetic fiber (Glanzstoff) in the mid-1890s. The success of the nitrocellulose fiber developed by...
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  • for spinning the fiber. On 19 September 1899 they launched Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken (VGF) with 2 million marks of capital. VGF quickly became a successful...
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    (Royal Salt Organon; KZO). The AKU was formed in 1929 when the Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken (est. 1899) and Nederlandse Kunstzijdefabriek (ENKA, est. 1911)...
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    led the March 12, 1929, walkout of 523 female co-workers at American Glanzstoff, beginning the 1929 labor strikes William Gannaway Brownlow – governor...
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