In the change of time

The business concept of Emil Heinrich Worlée to serve the home market
with raw material from all over the world was the reason in 1851 for
founding his company E. H. Worlée & Co. Today Worlée is one of the oldest
chemical companies in the world but even before 1851 the ancestors of
Emil Heinrich were known as honourable Hanseatic businessmen for the
import and trade of spices in Hamburg. The successors of Emil Heinrich
continue the tradition of enterprise management. Everyone of them,
commercially educated, had to overcome the challenges of their time in
their own way.

1851		Emil Heinrich Worlée founded the trade house E. H.Worlée & Co. in the Hanseatic town of Hamburg.
1906		Erich von Eben-Worlée joins the company.
1936		Manufacture of rosin based resins begins in Hamburg, destroyed 1943, Restart of the plant for Natural Resins in Hamburg 1951
1943		Destruction of the offices and Stock during a bombing raid. Business activities moved to a private house at Bellevue in Hamburg
1955		After the death of Erich von Eben-Worlée his youngest son Dr. Albrecht von Eben-Worlée becomes managing shareholder
1962		Foundation of the Worlée Chemie GmbH (LTD) and Construction of Resin Plant for alkyd resins (1964) in Hamburg
1974		Move of production from Hamburg into a purpose built plant in Lauenburg/Elbe with three times more capacity
1983		Purchase of a plant for water based polymers in the Haseatic town of Lübeck. Reinhold von Eben-Worlée joins the company.
1990		Move of the Head Office, Chemical Trade and Cosmetic to a new building in Grusonstraße 22, Hamburg
1994		Start of the plant expansion in Lauenburg
2001		150 years of E. H. Worlée & Co. and environmental award for the plant Lauenburg
2004		Expansion of the company warehouse by 40900 sq. feet
2005		Move of the offices of the trade and cosmetic departments into the renovated historic ware house.