Company Harold Scholz & Co. GmbH has been founded on April 30, 1902 by Karl Anton Rudolf Scholz namely as a trading company dealing with natural iron oxides and lithopone - an important white pigment at that times - both in import and export.At the end of the twenties Scholz agreed to a very successful still lasting cooperation with company Bayer AG. Bayer succeeded in producing high-quality synthetic iron oxides by an aniline procedure.Company Scholz having an excellent reputation in the market of natural iron oxides with best market knowledge was gained as marketing partner. In the years to come the synthetic iron oxides