Noury
In 1838, G.J.L. (Gerard) van der Lande (1792-1854) combined a number of windmills, including "De Eendragt" and "De Hoop" in Deventer in one firm, producing vegetable oil and cement and trading in rapeseed, flax seed, vegetable oil, barley and trass. As wind was replaced by steam, Van der Lande teamed up with A.J. (Anton) Nourij in 1839. The Nourij (later Noury) family, originally French and called Lenoury, had an extensive real estate portfolio in Deventer and traded in yarn and paint. To produce the paint, they needed flax seed oil to mix with the chemical pigments they made. The partnership ended up as a new company, Noury & Van der Lande, that built a flour, a vegetable oil and a cattle feed factory.
Around 1900, chemical products were added, with factories in Germany, Great Britain and France. In 1911, the company name was changed to Industrieële Maatschappij v/h Noury & Van der Lande N.V. Company research developed to the point where it complemented first class scientific research. An oil factory in Emmerik, just across the Dutch-German border expanded into pigments for paint production in 1931. Other developments led to ventures in alcoholic beverages (1930), herbicides and pesticides, pharmacy (1937), cosmetics and perfumes (1949). As plastics moved to being a mainstream product, the company developed its own line.
The company had a flour factory on Pothoofd in Deventer. Later, a citric acid factory called Organisch Chemische Industrie (OCI) was added. Photo: Gilde Deventer. This complex was closed in 1965. From 1932 the company also had a chemical laboratory on Ankersmitlaan and a daughter company, Nourypharma on Emmastraat in Deventer. The former was closed in 1998. The latter moved to Teugseweg in 1964.
From 1965, the company started a partnership with Dutch chemical concern Organon. This resulted in the chemical giant AKZO in 1967. Its headquarters are still on Zutphenseweg in Deventer, once the site of a Noury & Van der Lande grain warehouse. The company name Noury & Van der Lande disappeared in 1972, but in 2018, the chemicals division of AKZO was spun off to the US investor Carlyle Group and Singaporean investor GIC. The new company was called Nouryon, from Noury and Organon. This is the last trace of the Noury name but Nouryon covers the field once explored by Noury & Van der Lande.
| Noury & Van der Lande | ||
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| File:DNL1.jpg | ||
| Filename | DNL1 | |
| Side 1 | Noury logo | |
| Side 2 | blank | |
| Manufacture | Copper-nickel | |
| Size (mm) | 20 | |
| Weight (grams) | ||
| Notes | ||
| Source | Kooij | |
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| Filename | DNL2 | |
| Side 1 | OCI | |
| Side 2 | blank | |
| Manufacture | Copper-nickel | |
| Size (mm) | 22.5 | |
| Weight (grams) | ||
| Notes | ||
| Source | Figleaf | |
