Lenzing celebrates 75 Years

This week Lenzing AG is celebrating its 75th anniversary together with 3,000 invited guests – employees, customers, business companions, politicians and partners.

The company presented them with the book 75 Years of Innovation published to mark the occasion.

Several decades ago there were more than 30 viscose fibre production plants in Europe. Today there are only two, one of which is the headquarters of the Lenzing Group. The Austrian company has emerged as a global player as well as the market and technology leader for man-made cellulose fibres for nonwovens and textiles. Lenzing fibres were once a cheap substitute for cotton but are now highly sought-after premium products which are valued due to their renewable raw material and environmentally-compatible production.

Innovations to minimise the environmental burden of the production process have made Lenzing the best practice model in the industry. At the same time, the company has developed Tencel as a forward-looking technology which will shape the cellulose fibre industry in the coming decades.

Lenzing manufactured just 30,000 tons of fibre 75 years ago, but today production volume will soon reach a level of 900,000 tons.

The Lenzing Group operates the world’s leading research center for cellulose and fibre chemistry at the Lenzing site. About 170 employees work there to further develop products and production technologies. Some 1,400 patents and patent applications in 57 countries demonstrate the effectiveness and performance of this team of specialists. Research expenditures of about €28 million annually underline the importance the group attaches to research and development. An important objective of research projects is to develop ecological production methods and sustainable products with increasingly specialised areas of application.