 Société Anonyme des Plieuses Automatiques Lausanne

SAPAL (Société Anonyme des Plieuses Automatiques Lausanne) was a Switzerland company founded in August 1906 by Jean-Jaques Kohler.Backed by a group of investors, this chocolate maker from Lausanne, Switzerland, had acquired the US patent for the "folding box" die-fold system, designed by Richard Berger, a German engineer, which enabled an envelope style of wrap around small chocolate blocks, and done in a single operation.