The bird of Zschimmer & Schwarz can be held to be January 2nd 1894, when Max Schwarz and Otto Zschimmer registered the company in the register of companies as a shop for the sale of chemical products and colours.
After more than a century, the Zschimmer family is at the head of a group made of 20 companies with over 800 employees in Europe, Asia and America.
Zschimmer & Schwarz Italy has about 80 employees with a turnover in 2005 of 55 millions of Euro.
In Italy the Zschimmer & Schwarz group is made of:

• Zschimmer & Schwarz Italy which produces surfactants for cosmetics and detergents
• Zeta Esse Ti which produces auxiliaries for the textile industry
• CERAMCO which produces auxiliaries for the ceramic industry
• ZS Leder which produces auxiliaries for the leather industry

all together in the Zschimmer & Schwarz Finance.
Zschimmer & Schwarz Italy produces surfactants of different types. These surfactants are the result of constant research and advanced production methods.
The production of Zschimmer & Schwarz Italy, of about 100.000 tons per year, is made on 4 productive plants:

• a continuous sulphatation plant
• two esterification plants
• a mixing plant