Acta Musealia

Reich's Glassworks - an Impact of Technology on the End Products at the Time of the Biggest Expansion of the Company

Reich's glassworks in Krásno nad Bečvou was inherently recorded in glass-making history and enterprise of the town of Valašské Meziříčí, this not only largely thanks to its founder and owner, Salomon Reich, but above all thanks to its quality and unparalleled products in the glass industry market. Customer demands often changed and so the company had to be continuously transformed to be able to offer the most up to date products to a wide range of customers. To protect its know-how and proprietary rights, the company took out many patents. The products were decorated in certain ways, which gradually became simpler to speed up the production. Thanks to its high quality goods the company achieved unrivalled success, which was due to the management skills and excellent knowledge of competition as well as continual interest in improving the technology of production. The most popular item manufactured in the biggest quantities was lighting glass produced in many variations - different colours, shapes and even historic periods styles. The production continued until 2002.

Keywords: Glass, glassworks, development, technology, products