Our heritage

Decades of experience

The production site in Bad Hersfeld, has a long history of filament and yarn production. Originally designed by Hoechst, production started back in in 1966.

  • Development of several new technologies in cooperation with our customer and constant development of the existing portfolio
  • Highest quality and technology leadership in multifilament yarns in Europe
  • 60 new employees since 2017

Timeline

Site design by Hoechst

1963

1966

Start up LDI production

Start up HDI production

1967

1971

Highest Head Count à HC: 2,200 employees

Highest production v. 50,630 MT / HC: 1,420

1990

1993

First DIN ISO 9001 certification

Acquired by KOSA

1998

2004

Transition to Invista

Acquired by Performance Fibers / Sun Capital

2006

2009

Equipment transition from Bobingen

Product transition from Guben

2012

2014

Production of 21,000 MT / HC: 347

Transition to DuraFiber Technologies / Sun Captial

2015

2016

Implementing Sales & Finance from LUX

Management Buy-Out and transition to “The FilamentFactory” Production of 24.000 MT / HC: 400

2018

Factory 1968

Factory 1970