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Backgrounder on Lantal Textiles
Key data
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1886:
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Founding of the company, a family-owned, joint-stock operation
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Subsidiaries:
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Lantal Textiles, Rural Hall NC/USA, Rohner Textil AG, Heerbrugg/Switzerland
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Sales Offices:
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Zürich/Switzerland, Bellevue WA/USA, Toulouse/France
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Chairman&Delegate
of the Board:
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Urs Baumann
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Board of Directors:
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Renata Baumann, Peter Geiser, Dr. Thomas Staehelin, Uwe Mangold, Dr. Urs Rickenbacher
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Number of employees:
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467
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Nature of the company
Upholstery fabric and carpet weaving mill with own yarndying facilities. Lantal is a well-known brand in the aviation and ground transportation industry. The customers include over 250 airlines and all of the major aircraft and seat manufacturers, more than 150 public transportation systems and coach operators, all well-known coach and seat manufacturers, more than 80 railway companies and most railway and seat manufacturers.
Company headquarters
Langenthal, in the region of Berne/Oberaargau, Switzerland
On the company’s history
Lantal Textiles has been specialized in textiles for commercial aviation since 1954. The first customer was the Dutch airline KLM. The plant in Rural Hall NC/USA and the sales office in Bellevue WA/USA were founded in 1972. Comitted to excellence, we have a FAA-authorized laboratory since 1978 and a quality management system certified to ISO 9001 since 1992.
Most important figures
Production of around 2'100’000 meters of upholstery fabric and 500'000 square meters of carpet per year in Switzerland and the United States.
Products and services
- Aviation: Flame-retardant upholstery fabrics of wool/PA or Trevira CS, carpets, drapery, velvets, leather, headrests and low heat release wall tapestries. Functional fabric Climatex® LifeguardFR™ for climate controlled seating – FR stands for flame-retardant – in licence from Rohner Textil AG, a subsidiary of Lantal Textiles.
- Ground transportation: durable high-quality velvets, upholstery fabrics and carpets in wool and synthetic fibres.
Look toward the near future
As a multicultural enterprise, Lantal Textiles aspires to gain and maintain recognition as the global market leader in the design and manufacture of interior design textiles for commercial air, rail and road transportation vehicles.
The launch of Climatex® LifeguardFR™ has everything to take a new era in cabin interiors for commercial aviation. People-driven, quality-conscious airlines will embrace Climatex® LifeguardFR™ because their choice reflects a true concern for the passenger’s well-being and a decidedly intelligent approach to seating comfort.
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