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How it all started ... 

When Ludwig Friedrich Carl Büsing and Friedrich Ludwig Fasch – at the age of only 28 and 29 – decide in 1883 to set up a trading company for dyed woods, chemicals and oils, Oldenburg is under the Rule of Peter II. (Grand Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter). Dietrich Roggemann is mayor and the city has a population of 19,000 (now almost 170,000). The two cousins become business partners too and buy a plot of land near the station – 11 Bahnhofstrasse – for the sum of 50,000 Goldmarks. Now it can all begin!  
 

  • 1883
    Büsing & Fasch is founded as a chemical trading and import company for dyestuffs and dyed woods.
  • 1931
    The company branches out into the glass industry and takes over the firm Thien & Frerichs.
  • 1935
    Johann Dietrich Kolwey becomes sole owner of the company.
  • 1936
    A major fire destroys the entire factory plant in the night of 30 September to 1 October.
  • 1948
    The currency reform takes place in June (roughly 10 RM become 1 DM).
    Workforce: 70 staff in the first half of the year, 90 staff in the second half
  • 1958
    Büsing & Fasch celebrates its 75th anniversary – the new building at 9 Bahnhofstrasse in Oldenburg with a glass-fronted foyer, offices, laboratories and staff rooms is opened. (It later serves as an events venue for the cultural centre Oldenburger Kulturetage.)
  • 1961
    Activities in the field of reactive resins start and cooperation with BASF begins.
  • 1962
    The foundation stone for the new BÜFA Fabrication Centre in Oldenburg-Ohmstede is laid.
    On 18 July Johann Dietrich Kolwey celebrates his 80th birthday.
  • 1970
    Activities in the field of polyurethane are launched and cooperation with Bayer begins.
  • 1986
    The new plant for the Cleaning Systems Division in Oldenburg-Donnerschwee is inaugurated and commissioned.
  • 1992
    Separation of The company divisions are separated and restructured as BÜFA Farben und Lacke, BÜFA Chemie and BÜFA Glas.
  • 1993
    The paints subsidiary BÜFA Farben+Lacke is sold to SKW Trostberg AG. A decision is taken to build up a quality management system.
  • 1994
    The decision to set up an environmental management system is taken.
  • 1996
    The new plant for the reactive resins division in Rastede-Liethe near Oldenburg is inaugurated and commissioned.
  • 1997
    Büfa taff draft the corporate principles: successful business operation, cooperation, customer orientation and protecting mankind and the environment.
  • 1998
    The new plant for polyurethanes in Oldenburg-Etzhorn is inaugurated and commissioned.
 
 

 

  • 2001
    The chemicals distribution centre for the chemicals trade business division in Hude-Altmoorhausen near Oldenburg is inaugurated and commissioned.

    “BÜFA Chemicals is the germ cell of the BÜFA Group. Today competences exist in the Group in the areas of making up, storage and logistics of chemicals belonging to nearly all danger classes. The company is thus considered an expert intermediary between producers and users.”

BÜFA Chemicals in Hude-Altmoorhausen
  • 2011
    The strategic holding company Büsing & Fasch GmbH & Co. KG is renamed as BÜFA GmbH & Co. KG. Jan Philipp Wuppermann joins the management board of BÜFA GmbH & Co. KG.
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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