The chairman of the board of the Nobel Foundation opens his Swedish home and ...
30.09.11
When Marcus Storch, chairman of the embark on of the Nobel Foundation, bought his summer house in Torekov, the seaside look to favoured by the Swedish business elite, he did not put an Aga cooker into the caboose. “We didn’t need one,” says Storch, 69, who fatigued 15 years as chief executive of Aga, the global industrial gas actors once run by Swedish inventor Gustaf Dalén. “Today’s Swedish houses are well insulated. We have triple panes on our windows with a vacuum in the central. The Aga was once used instead of central heating. It provided Swedish houses with hot tap water,” he says of Dalén’s kitchen invention, sold to a British associates in 1931. “I wanted to buy the cooker division back because of the brand. But they treated the label nicely.”
Storch explains that Dalén created the Aga after he went reckless in an acetylene explosion. “He produced a stove with unchanged temperatures on the burners. That’s the unique feature. You don’t adjust the agitation; you move around the pans. He could make a cup of tea without having to see.” Dalén had over 100 patents, which included the up to date lighthouse and advanced optical lenses, and was awarded the Nobel Best in physics in 1912.
Source: Financial Times
AGA RNGMASTER : It's not all bad news from Waterford!
15.09.11
In what has been a windswept week for Waterford on the jobs front, there is some good news the burghs Waterford Stanley has seen a huge upturn in its stove dealing.
The Stanley stove phenomenon has gone from strength-to-gameness, with homeowners throughout Ireland choosing to find a more efficient means of heating their homes.
This combined with the painfulness of the last two winters and spiralling fuel costs has led to a 20% broaden in sales revenue.
With predictions for another very cold winter, thousands of Irish consumers have been installing hugely efficient Stanley cast-iron stoves to replace their unobstructed fires.
Owen Power, Commercial Director, says: All Stanley stoves including new lines, such as the Cara Wrapround and Reginald stoves both introduced last year, are designed, developed and manufactured in Waterford. The Ptys manufacturing plant in Waterford is currently working at full content to meet demand.
Waterford Stanley, which is based in the metropoliss Industrial Estate, will exhibit its latest range of stoves and cookers, including the fanciful new Lismore stove, a sister stove of the Reginald, at next weeks Citizen Ploughing Championships in Athy, Co. Kildare, 20th to 22nd September.
Source: 4-traders (press release)