It all started in Cologne in 1948, a couple of years after the Second World War. Mr. Eduard Huntenburg, owner of a food trading company in Hamburg, was visiting his sister and her husband. The two gentlemen went out one night and joined a round of card players in a shady pub. They probably had a drink or two and in the end Eduard Huntenburg won a couple of coupons for steel. Now it was hard to know what to do with them. Being a clever man with the right intuition, he decided to produce cans from the steel to use for selling shoe polish. He got in touch with Mr. Guido Kahl, a trader with contacts to the carnauba wax business in Brazil. The two businessmen decided to cooperate and founded a company. They used the cellar of a bombed-out school in Hamburg Rothenburgsort near the harbor. They prepared the polish in a boiler and filled it into the cans. Of course, that was a success! We have retained this entrepreneurial spirit and flexibility to this day, always eager to find a good use for our high-quality waxes!