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Nom
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Wittmann & Poulenc
Poulenc frères
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Couverture temporelle
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19th century to date.
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Société
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Etablissements Poulenc frères
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Biographie
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Founded by the pharmacist Etienne Poulenc in association with his father-in-law, Pierre Wittmann, the business originally traded only in chemical products. In 1887 a department dealing in laboratory products and apparatus was added branching out into glassware and other apparatus from 1895 onwards. Prizes were obtained at various international exhibitions at the end of the 19th century. To develope this section in 1900 the firm purchased the precision instrument-making firm of Salleron-Demichel qv ). By this date the company had a capital of 4 million francs, factories at Ivry-Port, Montreuil-sous-Bois and Thiais, and a warehouse in the docks of St-Ouen. During this period the company handled the products of several other companies and in their 1905 catalogue apparatus by Lequeux, Wiesnegg, Pellin, Collot (Balances), Yvon, the Féry pryrometer by Pellin and Beaudouin is to be found. In 1919 the Golaz firm, specialised in high precision mechanics, was acquired, followed by Delaunay fils ainé, makers of areometers and densimeters, and of the thermometer maker Roberteau. The capital in 1920 was 40 million francs and factories in Loriol and Livron (Drôme) and at Le Pouzin in the Ardèche had been opened.
In 1928 the 'Etablissements Poulenc frères amalgamated with the Société des Usines du Rhone, to become the Société des Usines Chimiques Rhone-Poulenc, SA with a capital of 75 million francs. Already in 1929 the trade name 'Labo' was applied to the production of glass laboratory equipment1 and in 1932 the instrument section was renamed 'Prolabo'.1
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Notes biographiques
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1 Agenda Dunod: Chimie, 1929, advertisement p. garde iv; Catalogue 1932, Introduction.
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Bibliographie
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Catalogue des Etablissements Poulenc, 1905
Catalogue des Etablissements Poulenc c. 1912. Catalogue issued in separate fascicles
Fasc III. Outillages et appareils. Objets en platine & argent
Fasc IV. Appareils de chauffage et de stérilisation
Catalogue 51. Bactériologie, physiologie, histologie, July 1912.
Catalogue général. Section des produits et appareils de laboratoire. Ateliers de construction d'instruments de précision, Paris 1920.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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1900 - 07: 122 Blvd St Germain, Paris (branch).
1907-20 : 86-92, r Vieille du Temple, Paris (1907 Didot-Bottin ; 1920 Catalogue G)
63, Bd Richard Lenoir (rue Pelée) Workshops Paris (Almanach Dunod: Chimie 1929).
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Exposition année ; ville ; type ; récompense
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1889, Paris
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1897, Brussels
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1900, Paris
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St Louis, 1904
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London, 1908
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Identifiant
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493
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