AGATEX wins the Hermes Business Award in the International category
AGATEX wins the Hermes Business Award in the “International” category
Lambach, [October 10, 2025] – AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH is the winner of the prestigious Hermes Business Award 2025 in the International category. The award recognizes the outstanding performance of the family-owned company, which has stood for innovation, sustainability, and reliability since 1921.
AGATEX is now managed by the fourth generation, Georg Bauer, and the fifth generation, Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt. With its business areas of refrigerants and specialty chemicals, as well as its sister company Pernauer Chemiewerke in the detergent sector, AGATEX is one of the internationally successful medium-sized companies based in Upper Austria.
“This award is a great recognition of what our employees achieve every day – together with our customers, who have placed their trust in us for decades. We are proud that our value orientation, innovative strength, and sustainable development are being highlighted in this way,” says Georg Bauer.
In recent years, AGATEX has invested heavily to further expand its position: With the new innovation center in Lambach, which will open in 2025, research and customer development will be more closely linked. At the same time, construction is starting on a state-of-the-art production facility in Thailand, which is scheduled to go into operation in 2026 and will serve the Asian market more efficiently.
The Hermes Business Award confirms AGATEX’s approach: preserving tradition, but consistently investing in the future and pursuing the goal of creating added value for customers, employees, and society. Prize confirms AGATEX’s approach: preserving tradition while consistently investing in the future and pursuing the goal of creating added value for customers, employees, and society.
About AGATEX
AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH is a family-owned company based in Lambach, Upper Austria. The company has been developing, producing, and distributing specialty chemicals and refrigerants since 1921.
