The Bavarian family company, PLANATOL, celebrates this year its 75th anniversary. Willy Hesselmann founded the company in Munich in 1932, the 'Planatolwerk W. Hesselmann, Chemische und Maschinenfabrik für Klebetechnik' (Planatol Works W. Hesselmann, Chemicals and Machine Factory) and produced synthetic resin cold glues for bookbinding. A novelty, for until then, adhesives made from natural substances were used in bookbinding, such as starch adhesives or bone and skin glues.

Then, as today, PLANATOL sees itself as a chemicals and machine engineering company with its core competence in 'adhesives', which offers its customers unique experience and knowledge from the development and application in the adhesives segment. In addition to the traditional home markets of the graphics industry, paper processing and packaging, the company delivers today to practically all branches of industry, such as the automotive, construction, aeronautics, plastics, textiles and consumer industries.

In the early decades of the existence of the company, an elephant was part of the PLANATOL corporate logo. As homage to the successful corporate beginning, the company will resuscitate the former corporate logo again in 2007 with a variety of actions. One of these is a nostalgic special edition of the wellknown 30-kg and 5.5-kg cold glue drums. As the model for this, the yellow-blue design of the PLANATOL 1 kg glue tin of the 1950's will be used. Cold glues in the special containers have been delivered to customers since February.

Further information under info@planatol.de.