The Munich veneer company
In 1937 the Munich veneer factory was founded, followed in 1943 by the Munich veneer company. In 1946, Commercial Councilor Robert Czerweny von Arland, later with the assistance of his grandson Dr. Otto Friedrich Czerweny von Arland again with the development of the most modern machines for making matches. Robert Czerweny, who had already been involved in the construction of the Czerweny match machine, acquired numerous patents of his own in connection with match production, including grinding drum, wooden wire cleaning machine, impregnation machine, box building and labeling machine and filling machine. In 1950, the general license to build the matchstick machines was granted to the public limited company A. Hering in Nuremberg. dr Otto Friedrich Czerweny von Arland was a member of the supervisory board.
Czerweny matchstick machines were built in large numbers up until the 1980s and, in connection with Hering dryers, pneumatic suction systems, etc., were supplied all over the world for the construction of complete new factories and for the rationalization of existing production lines.
In the 1990s, all Czerweny patents were sold to Swedish Match and the group of companies, now renamed Münchener Fonds AG, was finally dissolved.