In the nineteenth century it had been used as a baking soda factory, a grocery warehouse, and as a hall for the Salvation Army.
A short while later, the chemist opened a soda factory where he produced soap and later on soft drinks with fruit flavors.
Ziway is also home to a prison and a caustic soda factory.
From December 1942 to August 1943 this included a Jewish forced labour camp working in the caustic soda factory.
These include a ferrochrome plant, a soda factory, and a number of agri-food factories.
He says they abandoned a large apartment and a soda factory because no one would buy the property.
"That was our mineral water and soda factory."
At least one group used real soda cans to build a soda factory.
In 1925, India's first soda ash factory was founded in Dhrangadhra.
Taillades was a soda factory, a product essential to the manufacture of soap.