Lenzing - Leading Fiber Innovation

• Fibers 90.0 %
• Engineering 1.9 %
• Plastics Products 8.1 %
• Others 0.1 %

Source: Annual Report 2011

These are industrially produced fibers made from natural (for example wood) raw materials.

Lenzing produces pulp at two sites: in Lenzing, Austria and in Paskov, Czech Republic. The Lenzing site uses pulp made from beech wood. Major competitive advantages arise from the fully integrated production at the Lenzing site. Subsequent process steps yield marketable by-products, such as acetic acid, furfural and xylose. Our efforts of recent years have increased the utilization rate of the raw substance to high-value products to over 50%. The remainder is used as the most important biogenic source of energy at the Lenzing site.

The fiber production facilities at the non-integrated sites are primarily provided with pulp on the basis of long-term supply contracts and to a lesser extent with pulp purchased on the free market. There are only a few producers of dissolving pulp in the world. The Lenzing Group receives its pulp from Europe, the Americas and South Africa.

By the year 2015 Lenzing also intends to produce up to two-thirds of the pulp required as a raw material for fiber production by itself.

About 1,000,000 solid cubic meters are delivered to Lenzing annually. The half of these originate in Austria, the remainder is imported from adjacent countries, such as Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany or Hungary. The wood is obtained exclusively from forests which are managed along the sustainabily regulations detailed in forestry legislation. Lenzing AG (location Austria) processes 95% of the native beech wood that accumulates during thinning (pre-utilization) and final utilization.

Nonwovens are materials that are "not woven". Fleece fiber materials like these are used in sensitive areas, such as hygiene, medicine and cosmetics.

Business Unit Nonwovens

The complete production chain, from wood processing to fiber production, is concentrated in one location. The location Lenzing is the world's largest integrated pulp and viscose fiber production.

Source: Annual Report 2011

B&C Privatstiftung (B&C Private Foundation) together with its direct or indirect subsidiaries is the majority owner of Lenzing AG with more than 50% of the voting rights. The B&C Private Foundation considers itself to be the long-term oriented core shareholder of Lenzing AG. The purpose of the foundation is to fosta Austrian entrepeneurship. In additional Oberbank AG owns more than 5% of the voting rights.

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Tencel is a fiber produced with the lyocell process. The lyocell process dissolves pure wood-derived cellulose and directly reconverts the cellulose solution into fiber form. The auxiliary solvent is highly water soluble and can easily be removed form the fiber. It is environmentally sound, biodegradable and 99% recyclable.

Lenzing markets its Lyocell fibers as TENCEL®.

Business Unit Textile Fibers

Lenzing Modal® is a cellulose fiber speciality distinguished by its particular softness. It is preferably used for high quality clothing. The fiber has enhanced user properties (strength, dimensional stability and others).

Business Unit Textile Fibers

Lenzing Viscose® is regenerated cellulose fiber produced with the viscose process. Natural cellulose is dissolved as a chemical derivative which is then regenerated, that means it is reconverted to cellulose during spinning.

Business Unit Textile Fibers

No, the Lenzing Group produces fibers. Spinners use these to produce yarn, which in turn is used to weave and knit fabrics. These fabrics are then used to produce clothes and other textile applications.

Business Unit Textile Fibers

The reasons are historical. The business unit Plastics was created because fiber bales required plastic wrapping. Lenzing Technik was created from the core sector viscose technology. The historical business units have continued to develop into new product areas and markets.

Business Unit Plastics & Filaments
Business Unit Engineering

The principles of sustainability (see Sustainability in the Lenzing Group) were incorporated into our company at an early stage.

Lenzing views sustainability not just as a strategy for the short-term safeguarding of its interests, but as a long-term process with ecological, social and economic dimensions.

Utilization of the renewable resource wood, environmentally sound processes in production, economic effective productivity and job creation make Lenzing an exemplary sustainability company.

Its high environmental standards make the Lenzing Group a global forerunner in the cellulose and Viscose fiber industry.