Bostik Inc. (Wauwatosa, Wis.), founded in the 1800s in Massachusetts, recently celebrated its 125-year anniversary.
It’s a much different company than it was back then. Bostik started as the Boston Blacking Company in 1889. The Boston Blacking Company was a leather treatment business for the shoemaking industry.
Thereafter, it started having luck with its adhesive experiments. The company introduced a potato starch-based wallpaper adhesive in 1922, packaging and application techniques for hot melt adhesives in 1960, an elastic attachment adhesive for disposable diapers in 1975 and a silyl-modified polymer-based grab adhesive in 2001.
"We continue to pursue innovation just as vigorously as our predecessors, and look forward with confidence to the next 125 years,” said Bernard Pinatel, Bostik CEO, in a statement.
