WARSAW – LOCAL INDUSTRY
Nowadays Warsaw is the centre of government administration,culture and science.During the period of socialismin Poland it used to be also one of the major centres of industry. Now strategic industrycentres are situated out of the capital city. Talking about various industry sectors in the city limits and on its outskirts we can mention• pharmaceutical industry• food industry• cosmetic industry
We would like to concentrate on some important plants which could represent the above sectors.
PHARMACEUTICALINDUSTRY
Polfa Tarchomin - Polish pharmaceutical
enterprise which has got its seat in Warsaw.
It’s one of the key pharmaceutical companies
in Poland, the biggest producer of antibiotics
and insulin.
The history of this enterprise dates back
to 1823 when a factory called Fabryka Płodów
Chemicznych came into existence in Tarchomin
which in those days used to be a village situated
near Warsaw.
FOOD INDUSTRY
The best example of our local food industry is the first factory of chocolate in Poland – Wedel. From the beginning of 1845 Karol Wedel started his way to this factory while he was working in the cake shop of Karol Grohnert in Warsaw. In 1851 Karol Wedel opened his own shop and a nearby located factory of chocolate in Miodowa Street. In 1865 his factory was extended and moved to Szpitalna Street. In 1855 Wedel brought from Paris a special machine for rolling sweet substance and started production of drinking chocolate what caused a meteoric development of his firm.
In 1876 Karol Wedel presented his son Emil Wedel with the factory.
It was a wedding present.
In the 1930s the production was moved
to a new factory in Kamionek.
Wedel chocolate gained recognition
in the whole central Europe.
WEDEL BRAND SHOP
PATIO NEXT TO THE SHOP
In the summer you can sit here and taste delicious Wedel product.
WEDEL CHOCOLATE FACTORY
COSMETIC INDUSTRY
In nearby Piaseczno there is a factory of cosmetics called
Laboratorium Kosmetyczne Dr Irena Eris.
In its website you can read:” Under the supervision of numerous
specialists in various fields […] its laboratories carry out
multidirectional
research and experiments within the field of cosmetology”.
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