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DECORATION AND PROTECTION OF WOOD |  |
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The company |
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ARTILIN is a small industrial company settled in Colayrac St Cirq near Agen in south west of France.  In France ARTILIN paints are distributed through a network of professional decoration distributors settled all over the national territory.
The little story Léon POJUROWSKI left ODESSA in Russia and went to Germany with his family in 1917, when the Revolution started. Some years later, the rise of Nazism forced him, once again, to go into exile. In 1928, at the age of 18, he settled down in France in Colayrac-Saint-Cirq, near Agen, where his father bought a farm. He was a born inventor and, in 1932, he discovered a cooking oil which could be used to replace linseed oil or to improve its performances. He baptized it ARTILIN, for ARTIficial LINseed oil. On the strength of his invention, he founded a company, also called ARTILIN, to sell his product to painters or to paint manufacturers. In 1935, Leon POJUROWSKI decided to manufacture his own paints. Then came the Second World War. He was made a prisoner at Dunkirk during the Belgian Campaign, but escaped four times before being sent to the camp of Raja Ruska. He succeeded in escaping and in returning to France, where he joined the resistance of the Maquis in the region of the Lot. Having suffered during his internment from attacks from insects and vermin, he started up his company again and swore to invent a product to destroy such creatures. Tenacious and obstinate, he learned everything about insects, even going as far as collecting cockroaches. He finally registered the patent of a long-lasting contact insecticide paint in 1952. Other functional paints have been then developed. |
