Textile Recycling Expo 2026 – Brussels

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Date: June 24–25, 2026
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Booth: 2424, Exhibit Hall 3

AGATEX will be exhibiting at the Textile Recycling Expo 2026 in Brussels.

Our focus will be on specialty additives for textile recycling, in particular our LAMBAFIL® R series – FiberLoop Technology, developed to improve the processing performance of mechanically recycled fibers and enable stable industrial production.

Our solutions help to:

  • improve the processability of recycled fibers
  • increase process stability
  • ensure consistent material performance

A key focus will be on our core products within the LAMBAFIL® R series:

  • LAMBAFIL® R100 – adapted for synthetic-rich recycling materials
  • LAMBAFIL® R200 – adapted for cotton and cellulosic recycling materials
  • LAMBAFIL® R300 – adapted for PET-rich recycling materials
  • LAMBAFIL® R400 – adapted for mixed PET/cotton blended recycling materials

These solutions are designed to address the specific challenges of different recycling streams and support our customers in reliably integrating recycled materials into industrial processes.

Visit us at our booth and discuss your specific applications and challenges in textile recycling with our team.

👉 Plan your visit and schedule a meeting:
https://tre2026.mapyourshow.com/8_0/exhibitor/exhibitor-details.cfm?exhid=2424

Building Better Materials Through Strong Partnerships – AGATEX at Techtextil

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Building Better Materials Through Strong Partnerships – AGATEX at Techtextil

During Techtextil in Frankfurt, our colleagues Thomas Maier and Kristian Gavric met with Maria Ström and Roos Mulder from Loop Factory to further strengthen our ongoing collaboration.

The focus of the discussion was clear: how to improve material performance through early and close cooperation. In the fiber and nonwovens industry, the best solutions are rarely developed in isolation — they emerge when different areas of expertise come together at an early stage.

At AGATEX, one principle guides our work:
material performance must prove itself in real production environments.

This means:

  • reliability in processing
  • consistent, reproducible results
  • long-term stability

Together with Loop Factory, we are working along this path — step by step, without shortcuts.

Partnerships like this are a key part of how we operate. They allow us to learn faster, develop better-performing materials, and create solutions that truly last.

We look forward to continuing this collaboration.

AGATEX opens new Innovation Center

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AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH opens new Innovation Center in Edt bei Lambach

Edt bei Lambach, Austria – AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH has opened a new Innovation Center at its site in Edt bei Lambach. Following less than one year of construction and an investment in the seven-figure euro range, the new facilities were occupied at the end of last year.

“This investment is a clear commitment to our Austrian site and highlights the importance of research, development and innovation for our company. At the same time, our parallel investments in Thailand strengthen our international presence and allow us to be even closer to our customers in global growth markets,” says Managing Director Georg Bauer.

The core of the investment in Edt bei Lambach is the expansion of AGATEX’s research and development capabilities. This includes an upgraded chemical laboratory, a new application technology laboratory designed to simulate real customer processes, as well as additional office and meeting spaces. The application laboratory, in particular, enables product testing under realistic, process-oriented conditions.

“With this investment, we can support our customers even more effectively and significantly reduce development timelines. Developing solutions together with our customers is essential to finding the right answers to complex challenges. Our clear goal is to become the preferred partner of our customers,” adds Managing Director Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt.

With the new Innovation Center in Austria and the simultaneous expansion of its international activities – especially in Southeast Asia – AGATEX is setting the course for sustainable growth, technological excellence and closer customer collaboration worldwide.

 

About AGATEX

AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH is an Austrian family-owned company founded in 1921 and headquartered in Edt bei Lambach. The company develops, produces and markets specialty chemicals for the fiber and nonwovens industry, the paper and pulp industry, the wood-based materials industry, as well as other industrial applications.

A second business segment supplies refrigerants for the air conditioning and refrigeration industry as well as for the automotive sector. Through shareholdings, AGATEX is also active in the detergent business.

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AGATEX at Re4tex 2025 – Driving Circularity in the Textile Industry

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We are pleased to participate as an exhibitor at this year’s Re4tex – Recycling for Textiles Colloquium, one of Europe’s leading platforms for circular economy, sustainable fiber development, and innovative recycling technologies.

As a family-owned company with more than 100 years of history, circularity is deeply rooted in our philosophy. We firmly believe that real progress can only be achieved through strong industrial partnerships across the value chain.

Our Contribution: LAMBAFIL® R – Enhanced Performance for Mechanical Recycling

With our LAMBAFIL R Series, we support fiber and nonwoven producers in achieving higher recycling performance without compromising process efficiency:

  • Longer fibers due to improved cohesion

  • Significantly reduced dust formation

  • Smoother processing in carding and spinning

  • Stable and consistent quality, even at higher recycled content

We are delighted that our Head of Application Technology, Thomas Maier, will be present at the event to discuss technical challenges, ongoing projects, and new partnership opportunities.

🔗 More information about our solutions: https://www.agatex.at/en/textilerecycling/

🔗 More information about the event: https://www.stfi.de/en/events/colloquium-re4tex

Let’s shape the future of circular textiles together.
Let’s go Circular together.

AGATEX wins the Hermes Business Award in the International category

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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.

AGATEX (Thailand) Co., Ltd. Groundbreaking Ceremony

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AGATEX Breaks Ground for its First Overseas Production Site in Thailand

On October 10th, 2025, at exactly 11:11 a.m., AGATEX celebrated a historic milestone: the Groundbreaking Ceremony for its first international production site in Prachinburi, Thailand.

More than a century after Hanns Bauer laid the foundation of AGATEX in Lambach, Austria, another foundation was set — this time in Southeast Asia. The event marks the next chapter in our company’s journey of innovation, quality, and partnership.

The ceremony combined traditional Thai spirituality with Austrian family heritage, symbolizing both gratitude and forward-looking optimism. With blessings, incense, and the first pile driven into the ground, the ceremony embodied AGATEX’s philosophy: Building the future with respect for our roots.

Among the guests were Georg Bauer and Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt (Owners of AGATEX Group), Andreas Köck (Managing Director AGATEX APAC), H.E. Dr. Wilhelm Donko (Austrian Ambassador to Thailand), Michael Friedl (Austrian Commercial Counsellor), and many of our valued partners and friends.

The new AGATEX Thailand production site will serve as a hub for specialty chemicals for the fiber, nonwovens, and paper industries in Asia. With its strategic location, the site will enable faster service, closer customer collaboration, and sustainable growth throughout the region.

“This step is both a symbol of our heritage and a commitment to the future,” said Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt. “We are proud to continue what began over 100 years ago — now with an even broader horizon.”

“AGATEX has always stood for long-term relationships built on trust and reliability,” added Georg Bauer. “Our expansion to Thailand follows the same philosophy — growing together with our customers and partners.”

We sincerely thank everyone who has supported us on this journey so far.
This is only the beginning — but a beginning built on strong foundations.

Video of the Groundbreaking

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AGATEX wins the ALC in Upper Austria

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AGATEX wins Austria’s Leading Companies Award 2025 – Thanks to our team, our partners, and our customers

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We are proud and grateful:
AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH has been honored with the prestigious Austria’s Leading Companies (ALC) Award as the best medium-sized company in Upper Austria. 🏆
This award is a great honor for us – and it confirms that we are on the right track: sustainable innovation, long-term thinking, and genuine teamwork make all the difference.

Success built on two strong pillars

Today, AGATEX has two successful business areas:
fine chemicals, where we develop and produce specialty chemicals for fiber, nonwoven, paper, and wood-based material applications,
and refrigerants, where we operate as a full-service provider for the refrigeration industry—with a focus on quality, safety, and responsibility.

This combination of chemical expertise and technical application is what makes us special:
we combine tradition and innovation, industrial know-how and sustainability, regional roots and an international perspective.

A prize that belongs to many

This success is the result of the work of many people.
We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to our employees, who work passionately, courageously, and responsibly every day to develop new solutions—whether in the laboratory, in production, in sales, or in engineering.

They ensure that our customers in Europe and Asia can count on products and services that combine quality, safety, and sustainability.

Partnerships as a foundation

We would also like to thank our partners and customers who have accompanied, challenged, and inspired us for many years.
Together, we create innovations that solve real challenges—in refrigeration technology as well as in specialty chemicals.
This cooperation between equals is the foundation of our success.

Values that guide us

As a fifth-generation family-run business, we know that true strength is based on consistency.
Our values—responsibility, integrity, quality, and entrepreneurial courage—guide us in everything we do.

We invest in people, research, and sustainable technologies to remain a leader and a reliable partner in the future.

Looking ahead

For us, the ALC Award is not a goal, but an incentive.
With the establishment of our new production site in Thailand, the further development of our refrigerant services,
and new sustainable solutions in fine chemicals, we are continuing on our growth path.

Our goal remains clear:
to shape chemistry and refrigeration technology responsibly – for industry, the environment, and society.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who has joined us on this journey—our team, our partners, our customers, and friends of the company.
This success belongs to all of you. 💙

AGATEX at the 38th Hofer Vliesstofftage: Innovation for a sustainable nonwovens future

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On November 5 and 6, 2025, AGATEX will once again be represented at the Hofer Vliesstofftage (Hof Nonwovens Days) – the leading industry gathering for the nonwovens industry in German-speaking countries. As a family-owned company with over 100 years of history, it is particularly important to us to engage in direct dialogue with our customers and partners in order to jointly develop sustainable and efficient solutions.

Our focus at the event:
🔁 LAMBAFIL® R series – For the mechanical recycling of textiles
The textile circular economy is one of the major challenges of the coming years. With our LAMBAFIL® R series, we offer innovative chemical additives that have been specially developed for the requirements of mechanically recycled fibers. Among other things, the products improve:

  • the fiber length after processing,
  • reduce dust during processing,
  • and optimize further processing in carding, combing, or spinning.

In this way, we are making an active contribution to the better integration of recycled materials into existing processes.

🧪 LAMBAFIL® Nonwoven Solutions – Tailor-made chemistry for nonwovens
Whether antistatic, hydrophilic, hydrophobic finishes or defoamers – with our LAMBAFIL® product range, we offer tailor-made solutions for the specific requirements of nonwoven production. Our focus is on process reliability, product performance, and sustainability.

🧬 New AGATEX Innovation Center – Development under real conditions
In order to provide our customers with even better support, we opened our new Innovation Center in 2025. There we can:

  • conduct fiber-specific tests directly in-house,
  • simulate application-specific tests on nonwovens,
  • and develop new formulations much faster and in a more targeted manner.

This means shorter development times, better results, and even closer cooperation with our customers.

 

Visit us at the AGATEX tabletop at the Hofer Vliesstofftage 2025 in Hof.
We look forward to talking to all players along the nonwovens value chain – from manufacturers and machine builders to brands and converters.

📩 For further information, please contact us at: office@agatex.at

AGATEX wins Austria’s Leading Companies Award – national winner in the medium-sized companies category

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We are delighted to announce that AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH has won first place in the medium-sized companies category at the Austria’s Leading Companies Award 2025 at the national level! 🏆

After being named regional winner in Upper Austria a few weeks ago, this national title is a great confirmation of our approach: running a sustainable, innovative, and resilient family business that is fully committed to tailor-made solutions and long-term partnerships.

This award belongs to our entire team. Your daily work, your commitment, your passion, and your innovative spirit make AGATEX what it is. A heartfelt thank you also goes to our customers, suppliers, and partners. Only together can we continue to grow and shape the future of our industry.

For us, this award is not an end point, but a clear mission: we want to continue to push boundaries, develop smart solutions, and move forward with joy and responsibility as a fourth- and fifth-generation family business, represented by Georg Bauer and Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt.

Here’s to a successful future together!