wbag lnz industry chemicals founded 1938 zellwolle lenzing ag headquarters lenzing austria key people stefan doboczky ceo hanno b stlein chairman of the supervisory board products textile fibers nonwoven fabrics pulp thermoplastics ptfe acrylic fibers revenue 1.766 billion 2010 1 operating income 231.9 million 2010 1 profit 159.1 million 2010 1 total assets 1.963 billion end 2010 1 total equity 732.0 million end 2010 1 number of employees 6 530 end 2010 1 website www.lenzing.com lenzing ag is a company based in lenzing austria whose main business is textile and nonwovens cellulose fibers such as modal and lyocell and also makes some polymer plastics . 2 lenzing group is an international group of companies with its headquarters in austria and production sites in all major markets . the company initially focused solely on fiber production but it needed plastic wrappings for its fiber bales so lenzing plastics was founded to produce them . the plastics division is still active making 11.7 % of total sales in 2009 . 2 lenzing ag in lenzing the company s history goes back to 1892 when emil hamburger an industrialist operated a paper mill in lenzing austria . in 1938 zellwolle lenzing ag was founded starting pulp and viscose fiber production and in 1962 the company s name was changed to chemiefaser lenzing ag . the old calcium bisulphite method was used for fiber production until 1963 when the new more eco friendly magnesium bisulphite method was introduced . in 1975 the company established a department responsible for the environment and introduced a more green bleaching process for pulp in 1977 . in 1984 the company name changed to lenzing ag and its shares were listed on the vienna stock exchange in 1986 . 3 lenzing group has international branch offices in the united states and asia china india indonesia . its production facilities are located mainly within the european union with the fibers being produced in austria united kingdom the us china and indonesia while its plastics factories are located in austria germany the czech republic and the us . the pulp is produced in the czech republic and the engineering research is done in lenzing austria which is also the largest integrated pulp and viscose fiber production site worldwide . 4 total 2009 sales were eur 1.25 billion with a workforce of 6 021 . the main fiber markets of lenzing are asia 52 % and europe 39 % . the majority owner of lenzing with 90.15 % of voting rights is b & c industrieholding gmbh along with its subsidiaries . 2 as of 2007 the corporate group has an annual production of over 500 000 tons of fibers over 27 000 tons of plastics and over 80 000 tons of paper . 5 the paper division was sold out in 2008 . 6 in april 2015 lenzing sold its german subsidiary dolan along with kelheim and a 91 percent stake in european carbon fiber gmbh to wheb partners growth fund 2 and jan verdenhalven . the sale price remains confidential . 7 references edit a b c d e f annual report 2010 pdf . lenzing . retrieved 18 november 2011 . a b c http www.lenzing.com group en 774 . jsp http www.lenzing.com group en 565 . jsp http www.lenzing.com group en 1977 . jsp http www.lenzing.com sites gb07 english html 1.htm http www.lenzing.com sites gb07 english html 1 1.htm http www.lenzing.com en concern press info detail datum 2015 04 15 lenzing verkauft dolan und european carbon fiber.html external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to lenzing ag . official website english v t e atx companies of austria andritz at & s buwog ca immo conwert immobilien invest erste group bank immofinanz lenzing sterreichische post omv raiffeisen international rhi schoeller bleckmann oilfield equipment telekom austria uniqa verbund voestalpine wiener st dtische wienerberger zumtobel retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lenzing ag & oldid 741655046 categories companies of austriacompanies established in 19381938 establishments in austriahidden categories commons category template with no category setcommons category without a link on wikidataofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages e tinadeutsch italiano edit links this page was last modified on 28 september 2016 at 21 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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