1963

Dalston and a New Factory

Leopold died in 1963 and in the same year the growing business moved from Stoke Newington to factory premises in Tyssen Street, Dalston where 50 people were employed. Plastics began to supplement wood as the main materials of manufacture. Kesslers was now recognised as one of the leading UK manufacturers of display and merchandising material and clients included Sellotape, Mary Quant, Biba and Yardley. Vacuum forming introduced HI Styrene Sheet and the problems of heating but not over-heating the material. The first injection moulding machine - a 30 ton Negri Bossi - seemed miraculous.