 In 1821, after Bodmer had left the company, the investor Baron David von Eichthal bought the building complex.He ordered Frenchman Benoît Fourneyron to install what was then the most powerful reaction turbine (40 PS) in Europe and further expanded the cotton spinning factory.In 1853, 28.000 spindles were in use at the factory, which accounted for roughly a quarter of production in all of Baden.