Trevira
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | January 1, 2010 |
| Seat | Bobingen , Germany |
| management | Klaus wood |
| Number of employees | approx. 1040 (January 1, 2020) |
| sales | approx. 212 million € (2019) |
| Branch | Man-made fibers (polyester fiber specialties) |
| Website | trevira.de |
Trevira GmbH is a manufacturer of branded fibers and filament yarns for technical applications and hygiene products, home textiles, automotive interiors and functional clothing. The company is based in Bobingen near Augsburg in Bavaria. Trevira GmbH is owned by the Thai Indorama Ventures PCL.
Companies
Trevira manufactures textile polyester products, in particular staple fibers, smooth, filament and textured yarns for home and house textiles, automobile interiors and functional clothing as well as for technical textiles and hygiene products. These are, for example, fibers and yarns for flame-retardant textiles (Trevira CS brand) and antimicrobial textiles (Trevira Bioactive brand). Another branch is the production of fibers and filament yarns from the biopolymer polylactide (PLA), which are marketed as a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based fibers. The parent company Indorama Ventures produces recycled chips from PET bottles, which Trevira processes into filament yarns. Textiles that contain sustainable Trevira products are sold with the SINFINECO label.
Trevira GmbH produces around 74,000 tons of staple fibers and filament yarns (polyester, PBT, PLA, bicomponent fibers / hybrid yarns, etc.) annually . In addition, around 27,000 tons of polyester chips are produced each year for sale to third parties (2019). The share of fibers and yarns in total sales is distributed as 20% to the home textiles sector, 13% to automotive interiors, 44% to technical textiles and hygiene articles and 10% to clothing; polyester chips account for a further 13% (2019). The export share to countries outside the European Union was 15% in 2019. Trevira is one of the market leaders for flame-retardant polyester fibers for contract textiles.
Trevira customers are companies in the international textile industry with a focus on the European Union.
Locations
Trevira has three locations in Germany (two of which are production locations) and several foreign branches and agencies.
The company's headquarters are in Bobingen near Augsburg. Here are staple fibers made for the nonwovens industry and technical applications as well as home furnishings and clothing. In addition, Trevira develops new polymers, filaments and special fibers in Bobingen and carries out tests and analyzes for u. a. also external customers.
A second plant in Guben (Brandenburg) produces smooth as well as air and false-wire textured filament yarns for automotive interiors, clothing and home textiles.
Management, marketing and sales are based in Hattersheim near Frankfurt am Main. The service for business partners all over the world is controlled from here. Trevira also has offices in France, Italy, Portugal and North America; in addition, there are 30 other independent agencies worldwide.
International certifications
- DIN EN ISO 9001
- DIN EN ISO 14001
- DIN EN ISO 50001
- Standard 100 by Oeko-Tex
- Authorized Economic Operator (AEO)
history
The Trevira brand started with a linguistic mistake and, to be precise, long before 1956, the year it was first used as a polyester fiber brand. The entry "Trevira" in the trademark register was already made in 1932 at the instigation of Adolf Kämpf, the factory manager of the then artificial silk factory in Bobingen near Augsburg. Among other things, Kämpf initiated the construction of a separate settlement for the workers in the artificial silk factory. In 1933 Trevira was registered as a trademark . The name Trevira is actually based on a mistake by Kämpf, who was not a local: He wanted to derive the name from the Roman name of the city of Augsburg ( Augusta Vindelicorum ), but confused it with Augusta Treverorum , the name Triers. Even when the mix-up was cleared up, the brand name Trevira was retained; its use changed at first, however, at times the name was not used at all. In 1946 and 1947, Paul Schlack (who had developed the Perlon fiber in 1938 at Aceta GmbH in Berlin in IG Farben ) was first operations manager for the Perlon production and later technical director of the artificial silk factory (which had also belonged to IG Farben during National Socialism) .
Introduction of Trevira as a polyester fiber brand
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In 1952, in the course of the separation of IG Farben, the factory became part of Farbwerke Hoechst AG , and Paul Schlack took over the management of Hoechst fiber research in 1955. Hoechst began producing staple fibers from polyester , which was initially marketed under the Diolen brand together with Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken AG (later Enka ). It was not until Hoechst began developing continuous polyester filament threads (filament yarns) at the beginning of 1956 that the name Trevira was used for these. The polyester division expanded rapidly and became the world's largest polyester supplier at the time. Further works in Berlin , Bad Hersfeld , Gersthofen (also near Augsburg), Offenbach and abroad were created.
From the 1970s the focus shifted increasingly to special functional fibers and yarns. The texturing companies Ernst Michalke and Kaj Neckelmann in Denmark were taken over. In 1980, with the sub-brand Trevira CS, a flame-retardant fiber came onto the market, which is still one of the company's main products today. In 1987 Hoechst took over the fiber manufacturer Celanese in the USA, after the reunification of Germany the former man-made fiber combine in Guben .
The new Trevira polyester fibers were initially used in clothing fabrics, then increasingly also in home textiles, technical applications and nonwovens. The "made-to-measure" fibers can be processed into very different textiles: from heavy brocade to jacquard, muslin and taffeta to curtain tulle; woven, knitted or knitted and non-iron. Thanks to thermosetting, the wrinkle-free fabrics could also be given permanent creases. Designers such as Lagerfeld , Castelbajac and Piattelli presented collections made of Trevira fabrics at fashion shows.
Final separation from Hoechst
Ownership has changed several times since 1996, with restructuring, location closings and relocations. The spin-off of the polyester fiber business from Hoechst AG had already begun in 1994; In 1998 the European polyester fiber business was sold to Multikarsa (Indonesia) and Trevira GmbH & Co. KG was founded. In 2000, Hoechst was completely separated and in 2001 it was converted into a GmbH. In August 2004 Trevira GmbH became a subsidiary of the Indian group of companies Reliance Industries . In June 2009, Trevira (Trevira Group and Trevira Holding) filed for bankruptcy and extensive restructuring began.
On January 1, 2010, the operational business of the Trevira Group and Trevira Holding was taken over by the newly founded Trevira GmbH. From July 2011 to April 2017, the owner was a joint venture between the world's largest PET producer Indorama Ventures (Thailand) and Sinterama (Italy), a specialist in polyester filament yarns . In 2012 filament production was concentrated on the Guben location and staple fiber production on the Bobingen location.
Indorama Ventures becomes sole owner
In April 2017 Trevira GmbH became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Thai Indorama Ventures PCL (IVL). The investor bought the last 25% of the shares on April 18 from the former joint venture partner Sinterama.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Trevira GmbH - Facts & Figures. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Trevira GmbH: Sinfineco - Recycling at Trevira. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Trevira: market leader for flame retardant fabrics.
- ^ Information on the trademark no. 456828 Trevira February 14, 1933 in the register of the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA)
- ↑ a b Trevira GmbH - company history. Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Trevira: Sale completed. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Trevira is sold. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. 4th July 2011.
- ↑ New bosses are in charge. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. July 6, 2011.
- ↑ Trevira GmbH completely taken over by Indorama Ventures - Augsburg - B4B Schwaben. Retrieved April 11, 2019 .