From 13 to 15 October 2026 AGATEX will be at Chillventa in Nuremberg, the world’s leading exhibition for refrigeration, air conditioning and ventilation, and heat pumps. Georg Bauer (CEO), Harald Hochgatterer (Head of Refrigeration) and Sascha Celedin (Key Account Manager) will be on site. If you are in Nuremberg too, we look forward to meeting you.

A family company with more than 100 years of experience

AGATEX is an independent family company from Edt bei Lambach in Upper Austria, now run by the fourth generation. The company was founded in 1921 as Alpenländische Industriegaswerke, so handling gases, pressure vessels and filling has been part of our craft from the very beginning. Refrigerants have been one of our core businesses for decades.

Our customers notice that experience day to day: short distances, personal contacts and decisions made in-house.

A complete supplier for everything refrigerants

Whether automotive, commercial or industrial: we support our customers across the entire life cycle of a refrigerant.

Supply. Refrigerants across the full spectrum, from established refrigerants through the new generations to natural refrigerants, in packaging from the service can to the drum.

Accessories from a single source. Refrigeration oils, leak detection agents and A/C service units come from the same source as the refrigerant itself.

Take-back, reclaim and disposal. We take back used refrigerant, reclaim it in our own plant and properly dispose of whatever is beyond recovery.

Advice. Our people are trained and come from the field. On any question about refrigerants, conversions and handling you get an answer you can work with.

Our own infrastructure

What we offer, we do ourselves. In Edt bei Lambach we run our own filling plant and our own laboratories. For the periodic inspection of refrigerant cylinders and drums we operate a TÜV-certified test centre on site. Our quality and environmental management is certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.

Member of Euredia

AGATEX is a member of Euredia, the European association of refrigerant distributors, fillers and reclaimers. Euredia works for the effective implementation of EU regulations. This puts us at the table where the framework of our industry is shaped, and we pass that knowledge on to our customers.

Let’s meet in Nuremberg

Chillventa is where the refrigeration and HVAC industry meets every two years. If you want to talk about your refrigerant supply, about take-back and reclaim, or about the inspection of your cylinders: get in touch, we will arrange a meeting and are happy to come to your stand.

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The Euredia board has confirmed our admission: AGATEX is now a member of the European Refrigerants Distributors and Reclaimers Association. We are joining the European association of the companies that distribute, repack and reclaim refrigerants in Europe.

Who Euredia is

Euredia was founded on 24 June 2026 by ten companies from nine countries — the first pan-European association of its kind. It is based in Brussels, Avenue des Arts 47. It represents the distributors, repackers and reclaimers of refrigerants across Europe — that part of the value chain responsible for making sure refrigerants reach the European market legally, safely and responsibly, and leave it properly at the end of their life.

The association has set itself three priorities:

Compliance. European climate legislation — the F-Gas Regulation above all — only delivers if it is actually complied with. Euredia works to keep the rules applicable to every market participant alike and workable in practice.

Market integrity. The illegal trade in F-gases is not a fringe phenomenon. It undermines the quota system, exposes users to material of unknown quality and penalises every company that plays by the rules. Euredia brings the industry’s voice together towards the Commission, the Member States and customs authorities.

Circularity. Recovery, recycling and reclaim are the lever that absorbs the shrinking quota volumes. Reclaimed refrigerant reaches virgin-equivalent quality, is not counted against the quota, and is the environmentally sounder route. Euredia works to see these routes strengthened rather than obstructed by regulation.

Why we are joining

The refrigerants business is no sideline for AGATEX. We supply refrigerants across the full spectrum — from the classic HFCs through the HFO generation to the natural refrigerants — along with refrigeration oils, leak detection agents and A/C service units. We take back used refrigerant, reclaim it and properly dispose of what is beyond recovery. For the periodic inspection of refrigerant cylinders and drums we operate a TÜV-certified test centre, and filling is done on our own site.

“Refrigerants are a strategic business for us. As a full-service supplier — from delivery through take-back and reclaim to proper disposal — joining Euredia is a logical step. We see ourselves as a long-term partner to the refrigerants industry, and we want to help shape the framework where it is made.”

Georg Bauer, CEO of AGATEX

A company that covers the entire life cycle of a refrigerant is touched by every change of rules in several places at once: in the quota, in take-back, in the inspection of the containers, in whether a given substance may still be placed on the market. That is precisely why we want a seat at the table where those rules are discussed — rather than learning about them when they appear in the Official Journal.

What it means for our customers

Nothing changes about supply. A good deal changes in what we can add to it:

Knowing earlier. Quota volumes, substance restrictions, the PFAS debate, the current discussion around TFA as the degradation product of HFO refrigerants: all of this decides availability and price over the medium term. We will now receive these developments first hand and pass them on in our technical advice.

Shaping rather than following. As a member we bring in the perspective of an independent, mid-sized distributor and reclaimer — the perspective, in other words, of the companies that have to put the rules into practice every day.

Reclaim with a tailwind. The more firmly circularity is anchored in regulation, the more attractive the take-back of used refrigerant becomes — for the environment as much as for our customers’ costing.

About AGATEX

AGATEX is an independent family business with roots going back to 1921, headquartered in Edt bei Lambach, Upper Austria, with an office for the Asia-Pacific region in Bangkok. We specialise in the distribution, development and production of speciality chemicals and refrigerants for industrial processes — for vehicles as much as for commercial and industrial refrigeration.

Questions about your refrigerant supply, about take-back and reclaim, or about the inspection of your containers? Get in touch.

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AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH · Aichham 11, 4650 Edt bei Lambach, Austria

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Process chemicals for the fibre industry — and an application lab to prove them. A look back at three days in Dornbirn, and at why close cooperation is the only way innovation happens in this industry.

Fibre chemistry, up close

The Dornbirn Global Fiber Congress is one of the few places where the entire fibre world sits in one room: producers, machine builders, research institutes and brand owners. That is exactly why we were there — to present our process chemicals for the fibre industry, and to talk to the people who actually run the lines.

Events like this matter more than their programme suggests. The fibre industry does not move forward in isolation. Everyone holds one piece of the puzzle, and progress only happens when those pieces get put on the table together.

What we brought with us

Our range covers the fibre process from spinning through to finishing:

Our own application lab

A product list on its own does not solve anyone’s problem. What makes the difference is being able to test, adjust and reformulate before anything goes onto a production line. We run our own application lab for exactly that purpose: we reproduce the relevant steps of the process, measure the values that matter to the customer, and iterate until the result fits.

For hygiene applications that means strike-through, rewet, run-off, repeated liquid strike and surface tension. For spinning it means running behaviour, deposit formation and downstream processability. The data comes before the trial, not after it.

An extended workbench, not a catalogue

Many of our customers work with us the way they would work with an in-house development team — as an extended workbench. They bring us the fibre, the line parameters and the target values; we bring the chemistry, the test capacity and the formulation experience. The product that comes out at the end is built around that specific process, not picked from a shelf.

That approach only works if we stay close to the industry. Congresses like Dornbirn are a large part of how we do that: the conversations at the booth tell us what producers are working on long before it appears in a specification.

Proud to be part of this chain

Many excellent conversations at our booth, strong presentations throughout the programme, and once again that reminder of just how versatile fibres can be. Our process chemicals sit at a small but critical point in the fibre process — and helping our customers get their product right is what we are here for.

Our thanks to the organisers for the work behind the scenes, and to everyone who took the time to talk with us.

CALL TO ACTION

Missed us in Dornbirn?

Tell us your fibre, your line and your target values — we will take it from there. Samples, trials and joint development are all on the table. Write to salesFC@agatex.at.

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One web, four requirements

Designing a hygiene nonwoven today does not mean solving one problem. It means solving four, usually at the same time.

The topsheet has to wet fast, repeatedly, and give nothing back. The back sheet and the barrier layers have to repel. On the card the web must not build up static, or fibre fly, web uniformity and line speed all suffer. And as soon as a nonwoven moves towards vehicle interiors, medical or construction, flame retardancy is added on top.

In many projects those four functions arrive from four different suppliers — four contacts, four document packages, four schedules. At AGATEX they come from one.

The four functional finishes

Hydrophilic finishes — LAMBAFIL®. Durable and temporary hydrophilic finishes for topsheet, ADL and corewrap, for hygiene, medical and agriculture. Designed for PP, PET, PLA, viscose, lyocell and bicomponent fibres, applied on the fibre as a spin finish or on the web — inline at the oven, by foulard, or through the bath.

Water repellent finishes — LAMBAPHOB®. PFAS-free, based on natural raw materials and readily biodegradable to OECD 301. In use for back sheet and barrier layers, agricultural fleeces, roofing membranes and outdoor applications.

Antistatic agents — LAMBAFELT®. For PP, PET and PA nonwovens in spunbond, meltblown and needlepunch. Antistatic is the finish that appears least often in the specification and costs the line most often — fibre fly at the card, wraps, stoppages.

Flame retardants — CABERTEX®. Halogen-free finishes tested to FMVSS 302 and ECE R118, complemented by barrier function and oil and chemical resistance. Main applications are vehicle interiors, headliners, filter media, protective textiles and construction.

The range is completed by wetting agents (LAMBATOL®) and defoamers for spunlace water circuits (LAMEX®).

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Where the formulations are built

Behind the four product families sits our own application technology centre, the AGATEX Innovation Center. It runs what would otherwise have to be tried out on the customer’s production line:

– Fibre carding

– Nonwoven application on a laboratory foulard

– Fibre sink time measurement

– Hygiene nonwoven testing: lister, wetback and run-off tests to EDANA methods

– Analytics: HPLC, GC, Soxhlet extraction, tensile testing

This is why AGATEX formulations do not come out of a catalogue. A customer sends their substrate, we set the finish to it, measure in house and supply the figures with the product. The trial series on the production line therefore does not start from zero.

Why a European producer

AGATEX has been developing and producing chemical auxiliaries since 1921 — at its home site in Edt bei Lambach, Upper Austria, and now from a second production site in Prachinburi, Thailand. For European nonwoven producers that means production inside the EU, a REACH compliant way of working, certification to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, short routes and one contact instead of a supply chain running across several continents.

Let’s meet in Cascais

Thomas Maier, Head of Application Technology, will be at OUTLOOK™ 2026. Whether it is a specific finishing task, a substrate change, or the question of which function can realistically be applied on your line — we will take the time.

Book a meeting: office@agatex.at · +43 7245 32341-0 · www.agatex.at

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• LAMEX® deaerators release the air already entrained in the colour, so the applied film comes out homogeneous instead of pockmarked. Silicone-free options earn their keep especially in graphic and coated grades, where any silicone carry-over shows up as spots on a surface that’s meant to be flawless.
• LAMBATOL® wetting agents lower surface tension, improving how the colour wets the base paper and how the film levels out. Faster, more even flow-out — fewer streaks, fewer fish-eyes.

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Everything from a single source

Anyone servicing vehicle air conditioning today works with several refrigerant generations in parallel, with different oil specifications, and with a regulatory framework that keeps being tightened. In many businesses, that is spread across four or five suppliers.

At AGATEX, it comes from one source:

• R-1234yf — the standard in every passenger car newly registered since 2017
• R-134a — for the existing vehicle parc, commercial vehicles and agricultural machinery
• R-744 (CO₂) — for heat pumps and thermal management in electric vehicles
• Refrigeration oils, additives, leak detection agents and flushing products for the whole circuit

Thanks to our own filling plant, you decide the format: from workshop cylinders to bulk supply for entire service networks, with your own label as a trade brand if you want it.

Experience since 1921

AGATEX was founded in 1921 and is run today as a family business in the fifth generation. From Upper Austria, we supply customers in more than 40 countries.

We are not a trader with a warehouse attached. We are a chemical company with our own analytics and our own filling operation. Purity analysis, batch traceability and labelling all sit under our own roof. Questions about oil compatibility, residual moisture or specifications are answered here by people from the laboratory — not by a datasheet.

F-Gas Regulation advice

Regulation (EU) 2024/573 affects practically everyone handling refrigerants. Because we fill, label and ship internationally ourselves, we apply the framework every day. We pass that experience on:

• Which certifications your business and your personnel need
• Which record-keeping and reporting obligations apply
• Which labelling and GWP declaration is mandatory — particularly under your own brand
• Which containers are permitted
• How ADR-compliant dangerous goods handling works in practice

This advice is part of the supply relationship, not a separately invoiced add-on.

Let’s meet in Frankfurt

Let’s talk about consolidating your range, your own trade brand, your open compliance questions, or preparing your service network for R-1234yf and R-744.

Automechanika Frankfurt, 8–12 September 2026 Book a meeting: office@agatex.at

The week books up fast — best to get in touch today. Not travelling to Frankfurt? Write to us anyway: we will send our product overview and arrange a call.

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AGATEX at Cinte Techtextil China 2026

From 1 to 3 September 2026 AGATEX will be at Cinte Techtextil China 2026 in the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Halls E1–E7. Three days on nonwovens – and on the chemistry that decides whether a web wets in half a second or sheds water for ten years.

AGATEX GmbH · Edt bei Lambach, Austria

Cinte Techtextil China 2026: why this show matters to us

Cinte Techtextil China is the Asian daughter show of Techtextil in Frankfurt and covers twelve application areas of modern textile technology. The 2025 edition brought together more than 300 exhibitors from twelve countries and regions across 32,000 m² of exhibition space, with close to 20,000 professional visits. The 2026 edition adds further emphasis on AI, sustainability – and on textile chemicals, including a dedicated Textile Chemicals and Dyes Zone.

That is exactly where we live. We are not coming with a standard range, but with one question: how does your line actually run? Which substrate, which process, which requirement at the end of the chain.

What we want to talk about

LAMBAFIL® – fibre preparation and hydrophilic finishes

Spin finishes and durable or temporary hydrophilic finishes for all common processes: spunbond, meltblown, SMS/SMMS, spunlace, needlepunch, airlaid, thermobonding and carding. Whether topsheet, ADL or wipe – sink time and wetback behaviour do not happen by accident, they come from a formulation matched to the substrate.

LAMBAPHOB® – water repellency without PFAS

Completely PFAS-free, based on natural raw materials and readily biodegradable per OECD 301. In use on crop covers, roofing membranes, geotextiles and outdoor applications. The regulatory pressure is coming – we already have the answer at production scale.

LAMBAFELT® and LAMEX® – antistatics and defoamers

Antistatics for PP, PET and PA nonwovens, plus defoamers developed specifically for the water circuits of spunlace lines. Two unremarkable product groups – until the day they are missing.

CABERTEX® – functional finishes

Halogen-free flame retardancy to FMVSS 302 and ECE R118 for vehicle interiors, antimicrobial finishes, barrier function and oil and chemical resistance – for automotive, medical, filtration and construction.

From sample to line: the AGATEX Innovation Center

Before a formulation goes into production, it runs through our own application technology centre: fibre carding, laboratory foulard, fibre sink time measurement, hygiene nonwoven testing to EDANA (lister, wetback and run-off tests) plus analytics with HPLC, GC, Soxhlet extraction and tensile testing. Bring a sample or a specification – we will turn it into a trial plan that holds up.

Austrian formulation, production in Asia too

AGATEX has been developing and producing chemical auxiliaries for the nonwovens and fibre industry since 1921 – for 105 years from Edt bei Lambach in Upper Austria, certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, REACH compliant, and a member of EDANA and CIRFS. Our second production site in Prachinburi, Thailand, significantly shortens lead times and supply routes for customers across Asia.

Who you will meet

Xu Wang Nigl supports our customers from the first enquiry through to the running line, and will be in Shanghai for the full duration of the fair. Bring a specification, a problem line or a sample – that is what the three days are for.

Topics: Cinte Techtextil China 2026 · Shanghai · nonwovens · spunlace · spunbond · LAMBAFIL® · LAMBAPHOB® · PFAS-free · CABERTEX® · flame retardancy

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AGATEX at Yarn Expo Autumn 2026

From 25 to 27 August 2026 AGATEX will be at Yarn Expo Autumn 2026 in the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai. Three days on fibres, yarns – and the chemistry in between, which decides how quietly a card runs and whether recycled material becomes spinnable at all.

AGATEX GmbH · Edt bei Lambach, Austria

Yarn Expo Autumn 2026: why we are coming to Shanghai

Yarn Expo Autumn is where the Asian fibre and yarn world meets. The previous edition brought together around 580 exhibitors from 16 countries and regions and more than 22,000 visitors. For 2026, over 500 exhibitors from Asia and Europe are expected again – from cotton, wool and flax through man-made fibres to elastic, fancy and biodegradable yarns. The fair is organised by Messe Frankfurt (HK) together with the Sub-Council of Textile Industry, CCPIT, and runs alongside Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Autumn Edition, CHIC and PH Value.

We are not coming to hand out a catalogue. We are coming to talk to fibre producers, spinners and recyclers about specific lines: which finish on which polymer, which add-on at which speed, and where in the process the disturbance actually starts.

What we want to talk about

Spin finishes for staple fibre and filament

Our LAMBAFIL® spin finishes are applied directly to the fibre and tuned to the polymer and the downstream process – PP, PET, PLA, PA and bicomponent fibres. Friction, cohesion, filament bundling and static behaviour are not independent variables; they are set together. That is precisely what a formulation is for.

LAMBAFIL® R: making recyclate spinnable

Mechanical textile recycling rarely fails for lack of intent – it fails on fibre length. Tearing shortens the fibres, the short-fibre content rises, dust increases and the card runs rough. LAMBAFIL® R addresses exactly that:

• increased fibre length, reduced short-fibre content
• reduction of static charge
• less dust, improved fibre transport
• stable carding and yarn spinning processes

If you are running a recycling line or planning one, this is the conversation worth booking a slot for.

Antistatics, hydrophilic finishes, PFAS-free water repellency

LAMBAFELT® antistatics for PP, PET and PA keep the line quiet even under demanding climatic conditions. LAMBAFIL® hydrophilic finishes are available as durable and temporary versions. And LAMBAPHOB®, our water repellent range, is completely PFAS-free, based on natural raw materials and readily biodegradable per OECD 301 – a topic now gaining the same momentum in Asia that it gained in Europe before.

Tested before it reaches production

In the AGATEX Innovation Center we test formulations under application-like conditions: fibre carding, laboratory foulard, fibre sink time measurement, tensile testing, plus HPLC, GC and Soxhlet analytics. What starts as an idea at the booth can be substantiated before a production line has to stop for it.

Austrian formulation, production in Asia too

AGATEX has been developing and producing chemical auxiliaries for the fibre and nonwovens industry since 1921 – for 105 years from Edt bei Lambach in Upper Austria, certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 and REACH compliant. Our second production site in Prachinburi, Thailand, significantly shortens lead times and supply routes for customers across Asia.

Who you will meet

Xu Wang Nigl supports our customers from the first enquiry through to the running line, and will be in Shanghai for the full duration of the fair. She is glad to talk about specific fibre lines, recycling trials or sample requests – ideally with a specification in hand.

Topics: Yarn Expo Autumn 2026 · Shanghai · spin finish · LAMBAFIL® · LAMBAFIL® R · textile recycling · antistatics · PFAS-free · LAMBAPHOB®

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Why we are coming

Much of what a diaper, a feminine care pad or an adult incontinence product actually delivers is decided at the fibre and web surface. That is exactly where we work — since 1921, from Edt bei Lambach in Upper Austria, today serving customers in more than 40 countries.

The second reason is Asia. AGATEX is building a second production site in Prachinburi, Thailand. For converters across South and Southeast Asia that means the same formulations, but with short lead times, local availability and a response speed that shipping from Europe cannot match. ‘RIGHT’ HYGIENE is where we want to discuss that with the people it matters to.

The five conference tracks — and where we fit

The programme runs across Markets & Trends, Materials & Innovation, Process & Technology, Consumer Rights and Sustainability. The material side and the sustainability debate matter most to us: requirements for auxiliary chemistry are shifting faster than in the previous decade — PFAS regulation, recycled fibre entering hygiene applications, cost pressure with no tolerance for lower performance.

What we want to talk about in New Delhi

• Topsheet and ADL: reproducible hydrophilicity with LAMBAFIL® — sink time, strike-through, wetback and run-off, including multiple-insult testing. Permanent or temporary, depending on the product concept.
• Backsheet, leg cuffs and barrier layers: LAMBAPHOB® is 100% PFAS-free, based on natural raw materials and readily biodegradable to OECD 301. We have been developing PFAS-free alternatives for over a decade — not since the EU restriction debate began.
• Fibre preparation: LAMBAFIL® spin finishes for PP, PET, PLA, viscose, lyocell and bicomponent fibres — matched to carding, spunbond, needlepunch and spunlace.
• Process stability: LAMBAFELT® antistatics against fibre fly and machine downtime, LAMEX® defoamers for spunlace water loops and finishing baths.
• Development instead of a catalogue: at the AGATEX Innovation Center (AIC) in Austria we develop together with the customer — lab carding, lab padder, sink-time measurement and hygiene web testing to EDANA methods. The deliverable is not a test report, it is a formulation that runs on your line.

Who you will meet

Ravi Shindale, Application Technologist Asia, will be on site for both days. He advises converters across Asia at the machine and brings their requirements back into the AIC, where our lab develops the formulation. The path from “this does not work on our line” to a first trial sample is short here — the advantage of a family business with its own laboratory.

Book a slot

Two conference days, limited slots. Reach Ravi in advance at apac@agatex.at

Learn more:

www.agatex-nonwovens.com

www.agatex-fibers.com

AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH · Chemical auxiliaries for the fibre and nonwovens industry since 1921 · Production in Austria and Thailand · ISO 9001, ISO 14001, REACH · EDANA member

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