German metal recycling company Gerhard Lang Recycling GmbH has installed an Autosort Pulse unit from Tomra Recycling, also based in Germany, at its metals sorting plant in southwestern Germany as part ...

(Advent actually ends on Christmas Eve.) The first known physical calendars were handmade in Germany in 1851 and evolved in that artisan way until the turn of the 20th century, when Gerhard Lang, the ...

Gerhard Lang later made the concept more Christmassy in order to commercialize it. In recent years, it has been trendy in Germany to hang enormous advent calendars from buildings and add chocolates to ...

Later, Gerhard Lang commercialised the idea by making it more Christmassy. Adding chocolates to the advent calendars, hanging giant advent calendars from buildings in Germany are popular in the ...

The person credited with inventing the printed Advent calendar in the early 20th century is German publisher Gerhard Lang, who was said to be inspired by his mom sewing 24 cookies into the lid of ...

By the early 20th century, printed advent calendars emerged, featuring little doors that opened to reveal Bible verses or festive images. Gerhard Lang, a German printer, is credited with creating one ...

In the 1920s German publisher Gerhard Lang — who is often credited with inventing printed Advent calendars — popularized them in Munich, by working with well-known children’s book ...

Advent calendars have come a long way. Whatever your interests, there’s an advent calendar out there made for you. Here are some of the most interesting ones we could find. This series will help ...

And for many, it’s nearly time to open the first door on their Advent calendar. Advent calendars are increasingly big business. It’s 24 days for brands to put their products in a shop window ...

Until recently, Advent calendars were predictable – a basic cardboard box with a piece of barely passable chocolate behind each numbered flap. How did this quiet holiday tradition explode into a ...