INMR
‘‘ Family Album’’
Part 1
ALMOST EVERYONE HAS A TREASURED FAMILY ALBUM THAT SHOWS HOW THEY LOOKED AS YOUNGSTERS, WITH VINTAGE PHOTOS OF PARENTS, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. INMR IS NO EXCEPTION. SEARCHING THROUGH ARCHIVES OF BOXES FILLED WITH THOUSANDS OF EARLY PHOTOS – REMEMBER, BACK AT THE START WAS A TIME OF PRINTS, NOT DIGITAL FILES – WE UNCOVERED THIS INTERESTING SAMPLING WHAT FILLED OUR PAGES DURING THE EARLY YEARS.
MZ
� This is actually the very first photo INMR published, appearing in Issue 1 in September-October 1993 and deliberately taken in black & white since the first issues were planned to be only two color. In spite of our being a total newcomer, Dominique Bour, then Marketing Director at Sediver in Paris, accepted to meet me and took INMR on our first factory tour of the huge glass insulator plant in St. Yorre. Neither of us could ever have guessed at the time that INMR would outlive the plant( which closed years ago) and that this same photo would appear 20 years later in our 100th issue. Merci Dominique, wherever you are!
“ We have chosen to acquire more factories because we have come to believe that you cannot be a reliable porcelain insulator supplier today while being relatively small-sized.”
Anders Bohm, CEO( retired) Ceram Group Austria June 1993
Photos: INMR ©
� Management at Norsk Teknisk Porselen in Norway( from left: Terje Thomassen, Ketil Thoresen and Rune Johannessen) appeared in Issue 2 when they invited INMR into their plant in Fredrikstad, during the autumn of 1993. NTP management viewed the growing consolidation of insulator manufacturing at the time not so much as a threat but rather an opportunity for them to offer customers an alternative for electrical porcelain and thereby maintain healthy competition.
26 20
YEARS
Q2 2013