De Danske Bomuldsspinderier (

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: The Danish Cotton Mills) is a defunct

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company which operated

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s in

Vejle Vejle () is a city in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of Vejle Fjord, where the Vejle River and Grejs River and their valleys converge. It is the site of the councils of Vejle Municipality ('' kommune'') and the R ...

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, and

Valby Valby () is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is in the southwestern corner of Copenhagen Municipality, and has a mixture of different types of housing. This includes apartment blocks, terraced housing, areas with single ...

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. Production stopped in 2000 and both production sites have since been redeveloped.

History

The company traced its history back to 1892 when Marius Windfeld-Hansen founded Vejle Cotton Mill in

, Denmark. In 1901, the company was merged with Vejle Cotton Factory, also in Vejle, and the Mogensen Mill in

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. In 1906, it changed its name to Danish Cotton Mills and the following year the production site in Odense was closed and replaced with a modern cotton mill in

, then a suburb of

. The new mill was designed by Alfred Thomsen and constructed from 1906 to 1907. By the 1950s, the production of cotton was no longer as profitable in Denmark and the Valby plant eventually closed. In 1978, the company was sold to the businessman

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and after his bankruptcy in 1980 it survived as a division in the Copenhagen-based textiles company B.W. Wernerfelt-Hansen. The production site in Vejle closed in 2000 as the last Danish cotton mill.

The Danish Cotton Mills sites today

Both of the former production sites of the company have been redeveloped. The Valby site has been converted into

Spinderiet Spinderiet ( lit. "The Spinning Mill") is a shopping centre located next to Valby station in the Valby district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Inaugurated in 2008, it incorporates the converted buildings of a cotton mill from 1907. The mixed use developm ...

, a

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inaugurated in 2007 which combines a

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, office space and apartments. The factory in Vejle has also been redeveloped and now houses various cultural institutions and companies.

References

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Cotton production Danish companies established in 1892 Defunct textile companies of Denmark Manufacturing companies established in 1892 History of Valby Textile mills in Denmark