| What have Garden Gnomes and Vials in common? We often hear this question, the answer is simple: Both are from Gräfenroda. |
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The Gräfenroda garden gnome Gräfenroda is considered the birthplace of the Garden Gnomes, where, since 1874, the Philipp Griebel Garden Gnome Manufactory produces the familiar Garden Gnome from terra cotta. The manufactory survived two World Wars and the nationalisation in GDR times to VEB Terrakotta; today it is run in 4. generation by the great grandson of the founder. The garden gnomes are hand crafted by Reinhard Griebel and lovingly painted by hand by his team. Thus each gnome is unique and an evidence of the Thuringia craftsmanship. Gnomes are considered to represent the miners and symbolise diligence, honesty, hard work and modesty by their shortness. The gnome lives in dualism of reality and virtuality and perceptive people call him patron of home and yard. That's why the gnome, perceived as virtual personality, is given a name. |
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Glastechnik Gräfenroda GmbH Glastechnik Gräfenroda GmbH was founded after the "Wende" (reunification) and produces laboratory vials for Chromatography and chemical analysis. It is a small, traditional, family owned producer, attached to its home county Thuringia. The Swiss/Thuringia co-operation infochroma ag and Glastechnik Gräfenroda GmbH look back on a co-operation of many years and we both want more than just produce and offer products in our field: we are consistently questioning and optimising every step from the development to the final control of a product, in order to supply you with useful vials as a solution for your daily chemical analysis. Our focus is to achieve a consistently high quality and to maintain it. With deliberate lateral thinking we are looking for solutions, to develop products for new applications. |
With the garden gnome, we have found a symbol for our efforts. |
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2010 With Rosa Maria our Laboratory Lady Gnome we want to present you with a piece of our Thuringia home and its craftsmanship; she will be the patron saint of your laboratory. With her virtual personality, she will, with diligence and honesty, watch over the correctness and accuracy of your analysis and protect your laboratory from wrong. For as the Book of books condescends to say: Faith moves mountains. |
2011 Yetino Rodowitch our Yeti Gnome watches over the purity of the sample and will keep watch over your Chromatography system to prevent it from clogging up. |
2012 Fläschli Joseph (Vial Joseph) stands for the good fight in fairness and respect. Schwingen (Swiss wrestling) is a traditional Swiss contest that does not know any weight categories. The strongest wrestlers are called «die Bösen» (the wicked). Before the match in the sawdust ring, the opponents shake hands and the winner brushes the sawdust off the loser's back after the match. A contest of strength between tradition, strength, technique, friendship, ambition and fairness. Attributes we are confronted with daily at home and at work. Often our personal aims and wishes are in competition with the aims of the community. Like a Swiss wrestler we have to master this friction or free after Apostle Paul: «Fight the good fight ...:» |
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