Contributed from Colyton Parish Council Newsletter

In 1965, the Co-op bakery on Sidmouth Road, Colyton, and the adjacent land was acquired by German china and porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal who built a production hall and introduced processing equipment for the electronic industry.

Initially manufacturing resistor bodies for radio circuit boards, further halls were added between 1967 and 1987 for the production of technical ceramics, including fuse bodies from 20 mm to 400 mm long, but mainly the smaller ones for domestic appliance plugs which were then shipped internationally.

Igniters for the gas industry were also made in the early years, and production of substrates for the technology sector began with the introduction of a laser facility in 1989.

The final product range by the time of the factory's closure in 2015 was both impressive and extensive.