Bayer, Herbert

One widely used solution was the creation of new chemical entities through various spinoffs. Thus, between 1993 and 1999, Kodak gave birth to Eastman Chemical Company, American Cyanamid to Cytec Industries, Ciba-Geigy to Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Sandoz to Clariant, Monsanto to Solutia, and Rhone-Poulenc to Rhodia. Some more complex cases had to be solved differently. Hoechst, for example, proceeded in successive steps in 1994 it set up a fiftyfifty joint venture with Bayer, called Dystar, for the purpose of managing their respective dyestuffs businesses. In 1997 it transferred its specialty chemicals operations to Clariant in return for a 45 percent stake in the enlarged company finally, in 1999, it passed its industrial chemicals assets on to Celanese—the U.S. corporation it had acquired twelve years earlier—and passed Herberts, its coatings company, on to Du Pont. 

Herberts Unitherm Brandschutz-Systeme, Product sheet of Herbert GmbH. 1980 Fomox Brandschutzmassen. Bayer Presse-Information, April 1982... 

I visited several archives, some for an extended period, and many archivists have helped me along the way. I particularly want to thank those at the American Heritage Center, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the Deutsches Museum, the Sidney M. Edelstein Center at the Hebrew University, Emory University, the Hagley Museum and Library, Harvard University, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Post Street Archives. Several corporate archives allowed me access to their records BASF, Bayer, E. Merck, and Merck Company. 

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