| Between 1913 and 1914 the company bought the [[A. Morton & Co.]], who was reputed to be the oldest gold nibs factory in the world. Workers, engineers and machinery were transfered from New York to Heidelberg to teach the techniques of production, while maintaining production of nibs in New York. With the start of World War I most of the American personnel returned home; but in the meantime the production of nibs had become excellent and fully equivalent to the one carried out in New York under the ''[[A. Morton & Co.|Morton]]'' brand. | | Between 1913 and 1914 the company bought the [[A. Morton & Co.]], who was reputed to be the oldest gold nibs factory in the world. Workers, engineers and machinery were transfered from New York to Heidelberg to teach the techniques of production, while maintaining production of nibs in New York. With the start of World War I most of the American personnel returned home; but in the meantime the production of nibs had become excellent and fully equivalent to the one carried out in New York under the ''[[A. Morton & Co.|Morton]]'' brand. |
− | La [[Kaweco]] raggiunse l'apice delle sue dimensioni agli inizi degli anni '20, quando diventò il primo produttore della Germania, con vendite intorno ai 130000 pezzi l'anno. Nel [[1924]] l'azienda dava impiego a circa 1200 persone, ma già nel 1925 si iniziarono ad avvertire i primi sintomi della crisi, con l'azienda che perdeva terreno rispetto alle rivali [[Soennecken]] e [[Montblanc]]. Inoltre in quello stesso periodo nacquero nei dintorni di Heidelberg una serie di aziende concorrenti come la [[Reform]] e la ''[[KWG]]'', ed altre vennero fondate dai migliori tecnici dell'azienda che se ne andavano per creare delle ditte proprie, come i fratelli Böhler con la [[Osmia]] o come Heinrich Hebborn, che nel 1925 acquisì la filiale di Colonia di cui era direttore per fondare la [[Luxor]].
| + | The [[Kaweco]] reached the height of its size in the early '20s, when he became the first manufacturer in Germany, with sales of around 130,000 units a year. In [[1924]] gave the company employed around 1,200 people, but already in 1925 it began to feel the first symptoms of the crisis, losing ground to rivals like [[Soennecken]] and [[Montblanc]]. Also in that same period were born near Heidelberg a number of competitors such as [[Reform]] and the ''[[KWG]]'', and others brand were founded by the best technicians who left [[Kaweco]] to create of their own companies, like the Böhler brothers with [[Osmia]] or Heinrich Hebborn, who in 1925 acquired the Cologne [[Kaweco]] branch, of which he was director, to create [[Luxor]]. |