Water
The first analysis of Biborteni natural mineral water is performed in 1871. Its subject was the BORHEGYI spring and it was conducted in Budapest by chemist MOLNAR JANOS, a member of the Hungarian Society of Natural Sciences.
In the old days, the internal or external curative usage of mineral waters was made empirically, and knowledge about these treatments was most often transmitted orally, occasionally turning into real legends.
But the development of society
There is no source of information for the exact moment when the exploitation of Biborteni mineral water began. By exploitation we mean the systematic bottling and selling of this product on various market. But Molnar Janos speaks about this mineral water and the fitting out of the spring as early as 1871 in his work
The underground water network gathers rain waters passing through the layers of slate and limestone, this way accumulating many mineral elements.
Carbonated water forms in pools located in underground water-bearing layers of volcanic origin. This structure contains a special type of rocks, called basaltoid andesite, which ensure the permanent enrichment of the water with natural
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1871
There is no source of information for the exact moment when the exploitation of Biborteni mineral water began. By exploitation we mean the systematic bottling and selling of this product on various market. But Molnar Janos speaks about this mineral water and the fitting out of the spring as early as 1871 in his work �A BORHEGYI A�SVA�NYFORRA�S ERDE�LYBEN�. This reference item makes it possible to draw up a timeline of Biborteni mineral water. Thus, between 1871 and 1950 specialists speak of a pre-industrial period, followed by an industrial period until 1994 and the modern period after 1994. Although the mineral water was subjected to a technological bottling process from those very times, one cannot speak of industrial exploitation. Molnar Janos shows that the BORHEGYI spring was fitted out on the basis of a well-designed project. Thus, the channelling of water was supported by a concrete three-feet (about one meter) deep cylinder which covered and protected the spring. This building still exists and an illustration of it can be seen in a lithography made by Kosa Balint, a local villager.
1880
The owner sells the spring to the Biborteni Joint Forest Ownership. The official report drawn up on this occasion shows that at that time the spring complex included buildings and a mineral water deposit; thus, one can conclude that systematic bottling with commercial purposes took place on the site, which assumes the existence of a finished product deposit. The exploitation of the BAROSS spring began in parallel with that of the BORHEGYI spring. The former is located close to the location of the Biborteni I Unit (�old unit�). A Budapest entrepreneur, Endre Szilagyi, purchased the spring and the surrounding land, made the necessary improvements and started bottling mineral water. Bottling was performed manually, in two-litre glass bottles closed with wooden cap.
1892
The spring was purchased by Gotzei Istvan, who introduced a mechanized bottling process. Mineral water bottled this way reaches Moldova and Muntenia under the name of BAROSS OLTUL. 1892 The forest joint ownership sold the spring to Renck Antal; he would lose the spring, which became the property of the lawyer Ioan Ginrejan following sequestration. As proven by the documents included in the National Archive, Sf. Gheorghe county department, folder 353, file no. 4, page 31. 1917 The bottling station becomes the property of a certain Chisineanu, who sold it two years later to Mathe Gyula and Borbath Samuel, two local people. At that time 14 people worked in the bottling station.
1948
The station is nationalized and becomes a part of the Apemin Sf. Gheorghe state enterprise. It is the last year when water was bottled from the BORHEGYI spring, as proven by Harko Jozsef�s work: Data regarding the evolution of the production of mineral water in Biborteni, county of Covasna. This work also mentions that in that year mineral water was transported to the Augustin railway station by ox-driven carts. 1949 A 22-m deep well is dug in the yard of the station and the spring is called �May 1�. With the start of the exploitation of this new spring the pre-industrial period is over; bottling lines that to be made operational will make possible the industrial-scale exploitation of the Biborteni mineral water pool. Under this name � BIBORTENI MINERAL WATER � it will become one of the main players on the Romanian mineral water market. 1953
1978
The BORHEGYI spring is officially closed down. The new spring, called �May 1� provides from now on the raw material for the bottling station opened nearby (the old unit, currently Biborteni 1). The output is constantly rising; it starts from 473 thousand litres in 1950 and it doubles every 3 or 4 years to reach 12,260 thousand litres in 1968. The exploration of the pool ended with the setting up of 3 mineral water springs: F7, F8 and F9, which have been providing water to this day. 1973 The archives of the Spicul Sf. Gheorghe company (which was exploiting the Biborteni springs at the time) we learn that Biborteni mineral water was distributed, besides Bucharest, to 9 counties: Arges, Brasov, Cluj, Constanta, Covasna, Mures, Tulcea and Ialomita. 1978
2003
Production lines for bottling water into 1 litre and 0.5 litre bottles will be operational for almost 20 years and will make the total output of Biborteni mineral water reach a historical peak of 55 million litres. 1989 Due to political changes and to economic and social troubles, there is a strong decline of the mineral water output: from 55 million litres/year to 9.3 million litres/year. 1992 Thanks to the upgrade of technology and sustained investment, the range of products increased to include various packages and contents. 1996 The list of product diversified, reaching 25 distinct products. 2003