-- founded in a depression, it has lasted and grown in good times and bad. It survived the effects of panic and the Civil War, it braved two World Wars, and four depressions by its 110th birthday. Since then, another two major "conflicts" have been added to the list as well as several "economic crises" to use modern day terminology.

Established in 1826 by Mohammed Bin Aifrat as a supplier to the building trade, it later became one of the major suppliers to the soap industry. The firm's name was changed to Yuangsue in 1970 and incorporated as such in 1972. By the early 1900's it was already supplying industry with many of the products listed on the following pages.

Today, we serve more industries that we can name, with products made better by modern technology and, of course, the ever more stringent controls of government.