Sadolin & Holmblad 1777-1987
- 1777 Holmblad & Co., Danish paints company, founded by Swedish born Jacob Holmblad in Copenhagen.
- 1907 Sadolins Farver, paints company, founded by Gunnar Asgeir Sadolin in Copenhagen.
- 1909 Sadolins Farver enters the field of inks - later named Sadolin Printing Inks.
- 1912 merger of Sadolins Farver and Holmblad & Co. as Sadolin & Holmblad.
- 1914 Sadolin & Holmblad divide its operations into Sadolin Paints and Sadolin Printing Inks.
- 1933 founding a joint venture Polish-Danish Ink Factory in Poland, lost the shareholding in 1939.
Sadolin Paints growth
- 1949 Sadolin & Holmblad Norge A/S in Oslo, Norway.
- 1954 Sadolin Oy/AB in Helsinki, Finland, Dyo A.S. in Izmir, Turkey, together with Durmuş Yaşar, and opens a decorative coatings factory and marine coatings factory.
- 1958 Sadolin France S.A. in Paris, France, Sadolin ve Yasarin A.S. in Izmir, Turkey opens an industrial resins factory.
- 1959 Sadolin Paints (E.A.) Ltd. in Nairobi, Kenya.
- 1960 buys Farve- og Lakfabrikken Svend Overgaard, A/S in Aalborg, Denmark.
- 1962 Sadolin Bilfarg, A/B in Stockholm, Sweden, Sadolin GmbH. in Geesthacht, West Germany, Arrigoni-Sadolin S.p.A. in Milan, Italia, Sadolin Paints (Tanzania) Ltd. in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
- 1962 buys O.F. Asp Lak- & Fabrik, A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1962 Sadolin ve Yasarin A.S. becomes Dyo ve Sadolin A.S. and opens an automotive refinishes factory, a metal and plast industrial coatings factory and wood finishes factory in Izmir, Turkey.
- 1964 Sadolin Paints (Uganda) Ltd. in Kampala, Uganda.
- 1968 Sadolin Paints (Ethiopia) S.P. in Addis Abba, Ethiopia
- 1968 marketing companies Sadolin (U.K.) Ltd. in Saffron Walden, England (in 1981 moves to Huntingdon); Division Technique du Bâtiment Sadolin S.A.R.L. in Paris
- 1970 P.T. Danapaints Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia.
- 1970 rebuild Kemo-Skandia, A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark from a chemical factory to a paint factory.
- 1973 sells Sadolin France S.A. in Paris, France, the company continues with a licensing agreement.
- 1975 merges Kemo-Skandia, A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark, into Farve- og Lakfabrikken Svend Overgaard, A/S in Aalborg, Denmark.
- 1975 loses Sadolin Paints (Ethiopia) S.P. in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, which is nationalized.
- 1976 buys the paint factory Danlac A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1976 Sadolin Paints (Oman) Ltd. in Muscat, Oman
- 1977 buys an interest in Pars Sadolin Chemicals Ltd. in Tehran, Iran
- 1977 marketing company Sadolin Produkten B.V. in Rotterdam, the Netherlands - serving Benelux
- 1978 marketing company Sadolin A/G in Zürich, Switzerland - serving Austria and Switzerland.
- 1980 sells Sadolin Paints (Oman) Ltd. in Muscat, Oman, the company continues with a licensing agreement.
- 1981 buys an interest in the paint factory Chemcraft Sadolin Inc. in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.
- 1982 buys Mercandia Sie's Farve- & Lakfabrik, A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1982 sells Sadolin Paints (Tanzania) Ltd. in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and Sadolin Paints (Uganda) Ltd. in Kampala, Uganda, the companies continues with licensing agreements.
- 1983 Sadolin of America, Inc. and Sadolin Technology. in Greensboro, North Carolina, US.
- 1984 sells Pars Sadolin Chemicals Ltd. in Tehran, Iran, the company continues with a licensing agreement.
- 1984 buys Sadolin Paint Products, Inc. in Walkertown, North Carolina, US.
Sadolin Printing Inks growth
- 1946 Sadolin Fargfabrik, AB in Stockholm, Sweden.
- 1955 Sadolin Painovarit Oy in Helsinki, Finland.
- 1960 Sadolin Trykkfarvefabrikk A/S in Oslo, Norway.
- 1967 Dyo ve Sadolin A.S. makes an ink factory in Izmir, Turkey.
- 1977 buys Corona Trykfarver in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1986 Sadolin Iberica S.A.. in Barcelona, Spain.
Saldolin other activities
- 1934 founding the Danish color and textile pigments and herbicides company Kemisk Vaerk Koege (KVK) or Chemical Works Koege .
- 1946 becomes a parent company, when Kemisk Vaerk Koege is transferred to a new subsidiary company
- 1948 co-founds a chemical factory in Copenhagen, Denmark, Kemo-Skandia, A/S.
- 1958 sells 50% of its shareholding in Kemisk Vaerk Koege, A/S (KVK) to the American pigment group Inmont.
- 1959 takes full control over Kemo-Skandia
- 1960 sells consumer and industrial adhesives business and the Danish 3M agency to Lars Foss,
- who founds Lars Foss Kemi (the 3M agency is in 1963 sold to 3M.
- 1971 Sadolin & Holmblad buys back the 50% shareholding in Kemisk Vaerk Koege, A/S (KVK) from Inmont.
- 1975 Sadolin & Holmblad merger with Lars Foss Kemi, A/S in Fredensborg, Denmark,
- renames the business to Sadofoss.
- Also included in the merger is "Espe-Foss Oy/AB" in Helsinki, Finland, renamed in 1977.
- 1976 founding the adhesives factory Sadofoss S.A. in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
- 1987 Nobel Industries acquires Danish paints group Sadolin & Holmblad.
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