THE O. HOMMEL CO.
About thirty-five years ago, in a room in a building in the
downtown section of Pittsburgh, O. Hommel, the head of
this company, started the business by supplying makers of
picture frames, gilders of ornaments, lithographers, painters
and manufacturers of other surfaced material with a bronze
powder imported from Germany. This room enclosed the
office and the receiving and selling departments. The busi-
ness progressed and from this humble beginning has arisen
a large factory, covering approximately three acres of ground
at Carnegie, Pa., with general and executive offices at Car-
negie and Pittsburgh and sales offices in the most important
sities of the United States, the vested interests approximating
syne half million dollars.
“Quality First” was the motto, coupled with the watch-
word “Service,” and Mr. Hommel realized that, in order to
insure to the trade uniform material and satisfactory de-
liveries, it would be necessary to go into the manufacturing
business. Bronze Powder has an extensive use in surfacing.
You see it on wall paper and moldings, picture frames, lamp
bases of every variety and shades of bronze; labels; letter
heads; Christmas cards; radiators; pipe; gilt painting, es-
pecially on iron objects, indoors and out, and on many other
sbiects.
Soon after the bronze factory was well established the
company embarked in the production of oxides and colors
for use in glass, pottery and iron enamel tiades.
With the motto “Quality is remembered long after
price is forgotten,” always in view, the company is always
reaching out for something better. With Mr. Hommel’s
long experience and study of industries which it serves and
with his staff of expert assistants this branch of the business
has grown to large proportions, and has become one of
immense value to the ceramic industry. Every color of
oxide and almost every shade of colors are produced for the
iron enamel trade, and all varieties of known colors are
brought out for the glass and pottery trade and art decora-
tors.
