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The foundation of this laboratory goes back until 1870. In that year "technical chemist" Lotman founded in Amsterdam a "Bureau for Sugar research" to investigate the composition of sugar beets in the different phases of the growth. After the necessary expansion the laboratory was taken over by technician P. Ferman while the activities enlarged with research on rubber, paper en fuels. Another laboratory, "Bureau for Research on Sugar and other Substances", from Wijnhoff & van Gulpen, analysed besides sugar also butter, margarines, oils and more. Around 1900 this company took over laboratory "Chemical laboratory Dr. W.W. Salomonson". This laboratory performed analyses on foodstuff, metals and ores. Mr. Salomonson stayed until 1925 where after Drs. W.H. Nagel took over the business. Somewhere near 1931 there was a fusion between this laboratory with "Wijnhoff & van Gulpen" and laboratory "Dr. Basenau" and a new name came on, "Vereenigde Laboratoria Drs. W.H. Nagel B.V.". Until 1995 Mr. Nagel was concerned with the laboratory, where after he has sold it to the present owner Mr. R.J.H. Boddaert. |
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