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The plant, owned by J. G. Neher & Sons, the aluminium manufacturers, was founded in 1886 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, at the foot of the Rhine Falls, whose energy powered the process.
Short History of the Aluminum Industry. The story of aluminum began as early as 1808 when British chemist and physicist Sir Humphry Davy experimented with a process known as electrolysis. He used it to extract a host of new elements such as potassium, boron, calcium, sodium, and magnesium.
The plant, owned by J.G. Neher & Sons (aluminum manufacturers) started in 1886 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, at the foot of the Rhine Falls - capturing the falls’ energy to produce aluminum. Neher's sons together with Dr. Lauber discovered the endless rolling process and the use of aluminum foil as a protective barrier.
The History of aluminium foil 1910 Robert Victor Neher took out a patent for the continuous rolling process and opened the first aluminium rolling plant in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.
Robert Victor Neher is often credited as the person who invented aluminum foil, but his actual contribution was designing machines to create it efficiently. Heinrich Alfred Gautschi was producing a version of aluminum foil earlier than Neher, though his contribution is often overlooked.
The first aluminium rolling plant in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland was opened by Robert Victor Neher who took out a patent in 1910 for the continuous rolling process. Initially regarded as a replacement for tin foil, by 1911 Bern-based Tobler began wrapping its chocolate bars in alufoil, including the iconic Toblerone.
American, Charles Martin Hall had invented a process for obtaining aluminum from aluminum oxide. It should be noted that Paul L. T. Heroult, a French chemist, also invented this same process independently in 1886.
The plant, owned by J. G. Neher & Sons, the aluminium manufacturers, was founded in 1886 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, at the foot of the Rhine Falls, whose energy powered the process.
It wasn't until the early 20th century that aluminum foil as we know it today was invented. In 1903, a Swiss engineer named Dr. Lauber discovered a way to roll aluminum into thin, flexible sheets that could be used for packaging and insulation. This discovery would change the world forever.
In 1910, a Swiss man named Dr. Lauber invented the first aluminum foil. His foil was made by taking thin sheets of aluminum and rolling them between heavy rollers until they were thin enough to be considered foil.