Sujet

Industrial alcohols factory of Folch, Albiñana y Compañía Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 1883. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Industrial alcohols factory of Folch, Albiñana y Compañía Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 1883. In 1874, Joaquim Folch i Solà and Frederic Albiñana i Vila, founded the company Folch, Albiñana y Cía. for the cereal trade. Both partners visited the main European factories to establish an alcohol distillery in Barcelona, building it at the Passeig del Cementiri (now Doctor Aiguader street). The machinery was of German origin, being installed under the direction of the engineer M.P. Kyll, from Cologne (Germany). It was inaugurated in 1883. There was a malting plant, with warehouses that could store up to one and a half million kilos of corn and barley, a building for the brewing and saccharification process, fermentation cellars and a building for distillation. View of the factory's machinery and equipment hall. From "La Ilustración Española y Americana" (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

Date

1883

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A26_066

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

36.6Mo (2.9Mo) / 35.0cm x 26.2cm / 4134 x 3092 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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