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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!