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PHOTO FEATURE
Black to white in 120 years
The Schwaebisch Hall-based com- pany "GASTI" celebrated its 120th anniversary in November 2020. It all started at GASTI back in the year 1900, when the glue manufacturer Adolf Diemer was tired of manually filling leather grease (shoe polish) into cans. It was a mess, especially when the cans were overfilled and the sti- cky grease was spreading on tables and floors. So he looked for a tech-
nical solution and remembered an old light-casting machine in the at- tic, which was used to make stearin candles. Adolf Diemer's vague idea was to use this machine to fill the leather grease into cans. He instructed his me- chanic Karl Ganzhorn to convert them, who – after much trial and error proud- ly demonstrated the result in the small workshop: a pouring trolley – basically the first filling machine.
(Source of all photos: IMA GASTI)
Tube filling machine
View into the shop floor in the 1950s
First machine for filling shoe polish (photo from Erdal)
1965: Filling & sealing machine DG 25/6 for cups
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