Following the successful completion of the environmental impact assessment process for the new Tencel production plant in Lenzing/Upper Austria nine months after the formal filing of the project, Lenzing has been formally granted a legally binding building permit by the Office of the Provincial Government of Upper Austria. Construction  has now begun on the new production facility which will manufacture 67,000 tons of the specialty fiber Tencel in Upper Austria in the future. The scope of the project is expected to be two years.

Lenzing AG will invest approximately €130 million in the new factory, making it one of the largest individual industrial investments in Austria at the present time. This project will be accompanied by considerable infrastructure investments. Moreover, once it is put into operation the Tencel production plant will generate 110 additional highly qualified jobs in Lenzing in the long term, as well as a large number of other jobs in the region. The planning and construction of the facility also leads to a corresponding value creation.

“With the Tencel plant the fiber technology of the future and the latest generation of man-made cellulose fibers is returning to our corporate headquarters in Lenzing. The Lenzing pilot plant was the place where 20 years ago the first marketable lyocell fibers in the history of the Lenzing Group were produced. They are now marketed around the world under the Tencel brand name”, says  Friedrich Weninger, member of the management board of the Lenzing Group and COO responsible for the fiber business.