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Kalkomania Wałbrzych. Jan Rożniakowski ostatni prezes
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00:00 A factory in Europe with such a range and production possibilities.
00:06 I think there were not many such factories in the world.
00:10 And today?
00:11 Today we have produced, among all Polish factories, the largest.
00:20 The largest customer was Porcelana Wałbrzych, the Porcelana Krzysztof factory.
00:26 The non-existent Książ porcelain factory, which was to be the largest porcelain factory in Europe at the time of its creation.
00:38 We produced porcelain for the Lubiana factory, for Chodzież porcelain, for Ćmiel porcelain, for Porcelita factory in Tułowice, Pruszków.
00:48 And for larger factories, for larger glass huts, because chalcomania was also bought by glass huts, because it also serves to decorate chalcomania and glass and porcelain.
01:01 And a large number of customers were also factories that produced enamel pots.
01:06 There are no more, because this factory is probably so well known, many people probably remember the Olkusz enamel factory.
01:17 So far, there are a lot of these vessels in our home farms.
01:24 There was also a large factory in Myszkow, also pots, and in Rybnik.
01:30 These factories are no longer there.
01:32 Did the factories fall and it was the collapse of the Wolbrzych chalcomania?
01:36 Chalcomania fell directly to the collapse until 2014, because porcelain factories simply charged us a lot of money for this chalco.
01:52 They bought a lot, it was a big debt and their troubles were transferred to us.
02:02 They were credited, financed by our chalco, they were paid with payments.
02:10 It was a direct reason that they did not pay us for invoices.
02:17 The porcelain factory "Książ" fell, I don't remember if it was a million zlotys at that time.
02:25 The porcelain factory "Krzysztof" also fell and left us with debts, although later it overdid it a bit, because it started producing and buying a chalco.
02:35 Porcelain here, in the neighborhood, the porcelain factory "Wałbrzych" also.
02:40 In addition, the porcelain factory "Krzysztof Wałbrzych" led us into such trouble that it ceased to exist.
02:48 We lost a large client.
02:51 It was a direct reason, we had to find a reason why these factories did not pay us and why they fell.
02:59 We all know that. The influx of products from China was the main reason.
03:10 How many employees did the chalco factory "Wałbrzych" employ at that time?
03:17 How many families lived there?
03:19 At the beginning of my career in 1988, there were about 200-250 employees.
03:32 I don't remember exactly.
03:34 At the very end, there were 30 employees, at the end of this activity and this factory, in this old form, before the acquisition by Mr. Adam Witka.
03:48 How did the production look like? How did it work?
03:52 How did the chalco eventually end up on these plates, pots, drinking cups, etc.?
04:00 The production of chalcomania is a kind of polygraphic activity.
04:06 Chalcomania was printed with ceramic paints on sheets of paper, special paper for the production of chalcomania,
04:14 which allowed thousands, if not millions of projects.
04:23 At the very end, it was printed with a sheet printing method, although the beginning of the company was built by Germany.
04:33 It was a lithography method, then we switched to offset.
04:37 At the very end, chalcomania is still made with a sheet printing method.
04:41 It is printed with ceramic paints on special paper, then coated with a so-called opaque varnish.
04:50 When it is put into the water, the varnish allows us to transfer the entire pattern, the entire varnish, to a given product, porcelain, enamel, glass.
05:00 Then it is given, as if not by us, because our clients, porcelain factories, huts, stick it on their products and give it to thermal processing.
05:15 Porcelain is 800 degrees, enamel 800, glass 500, and in porcelain there is a so-called glass fallout, 1200 degrees.
05:27 In short, there is a lot to say about it.