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Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Laboratory Alga
In 1926, the pharmacist Vladimir Kezele received the approval by the Ministry of Public Health in Belgrade to start the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Laboratory Alga in Ružićeva Street. The very next year, he teamed up with an equally ambitious Dinko Budak, otherwise a master in the preparation of domestic remedies, one of which was the elixir Alga. The successful operation of this pharmaceutical company culminated in the 1930s and 1940s, when its products transcended the local market and became k ...
Littorale Palace, The liquor factory Pfau & Co, Tin Can Factory, print shop Tipograf
The liquor factory Pfau & Co. operated at the location of today’s Littorale Palace from the second half of the 19th century until the early years of the 20th century. At the time, the building was owned by the Ružić family and it was erected in 1867. The expansion of the production drive in Rijeka was planned in the early years of the 20th century, which means that the factory operated very successfully. In 1905, on the site of the collapsed liqueur company, the industrialist Bluhweis ...
Stabillimento prodotti chimici (chemical industries)
Rijeka had several chemical factories. The factory Stabillimento prodotti chimici operated on Brgudi (Cerovice). The complex of several facilities was located within today’s 3. Maj Shipyard. Topographic sources and the date both show that this chemical industry existed before shipbuilding activities even started in Brgudi and that it later continued to operate alongside the shipbuilding complex. There is a draft from 1923 with the application for a construction permit for a new fence to be ...
3. Maj
The shipbuilding industry in the Brgud area developed in the second half of the 19th century. It all started with the company Rijeka’s Technical Institute, Stabilimento tecnico Fiumano. In the 1890s, by founding the Society for Docking and the Howaldt Society for Shipbuilding, the Hungarian government undertook the obligation to upgrade and prepare the necessary ground for a shipyard on the Brgud coast, west of the Torpedo Factory. In short order, the necessary halls, workshops and slipway ...