Øresunds Chemiske Fabriker
Øresunds chemiske Fabriker (literal translation, lit. "Øresund Chemical Industries"), colloquially known as Kryolitfabrikken (The Cryolite Factory), was a cryolite processing plant established in 1859 at Strandboulevarden in Copenhagen, Denmark. History The company was established as Fabrikken Øresund by Th. Weber & Co. in 1859 based on a plan by professor Julius Thomsen (1826-1909) for manufacturing Sodium carbonate, washing soda from cryolite from a cryolite factory in Greenland. The activities were later that same year expanded with an alum plant and a few years later with a ''Stråmasse'' plant. Gustav Adolph Hagemann started working for the company as a student in 1864. In 1865, when he had completed his exams, Kryolit Mine og Handelsselskabet sent him to the US to oversee the deliveries of cryolite to the Pennsalt Historic District, Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company. In early 1856, he travelled to the US to provide technical support in connection with the first del ...
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