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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