When we started to make the aluminum plates, we found there was not a sufficient flow of water. Apparently the pipes were corroded. We installed two 500 gallon tanks which were filled at night to have enough water to run the tanks line rinses. Mr. Halpern hired a man in America from Germany to be the president of Poychrome Gmbh . After a number of months we found the sales manager which Polychrome Gmbh had hired was keeping some of the money the dealers paid and he was discharged. A Mr, Richter was hired as the plant manager and Mr. Mintel as the company chemist.
Polychrome Gmbh acquired an empty building In downtown Osterode which had been a furniture factory. The company then made the offset plates there and left Freiheiit. I do not know if the tank line was moved there but they built a copy of our C line. Most of the line was built by Deprieux which had experience building metal plate lines. The anodizing section was obtained from Langbein. We bought from Deprieux two position unwind stands and heat seal units which enabled us to connect a finished roll of aluminum to a new one using a special two sided tape made by 3M.