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In the first weeks of 1918, Leo Pfluger fulfilled one of his heart’s desires and dared to take the leap into business independence. Together with his cousin Ernst Flury, he founded Agathon AG. The joint-stock company was entered in the commercial register on 31 January of that year and acquired the building and the equipment of the Kully machine factory in Heidenhubelstrasse in Solothurn. This building was to remain the home of Agathon until it moved to Bellach in 1965, but had been expanded three times by then. Leo Pfluger took over the management of Agathon AG, while his cousin did not play an active role in the company, but served exclusively as a consultant.
In the following 36 years Leo Pfluger led his company with iron discipline, business acumen and great ingenuity through the world economic crisis, the Second World War and the following years of economic growth. Already in the first year of its existence the first patents were registered on Agathon AG. The continuous stream of innovations is still one of the company’s identity characteristics today. In the early years of Agathon AG, production was primarily for the then prospering watch industry in the Swiss Jura and Jura region as well as for the bar turning industry. The product range at that time included precision tool grinding and lapping machines, tapping machines, thread cutting machines, support grinding machines and polishing drums. Leo Pfluger died in September 1959, leaving three daughters and two sons behind.