About us

Your partner for tailor made solutions in yarns

As a high performance company of the Glatz group we produce out of special papers paper yarns and paper cords with diameter from 0,20 up to 30,0 mm.

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GarnTec is the only provider who possesses the know-how to produce thinnest paper yarns. Swellable flat yarns, swellable yarns, swellable tapes, separating tapes an cable insulating paper complete the delivery program for the cable industry.

For the creative range we supply decoration-yarns and paper tapes in different colours. Our products are finding world-wide interest.

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You can imagine, that the application range of our products are various! Please contact us, if we have aroused your interest! If you should recognize applications, which we do not have in our program, we will develop a special product for your application.

Our experience offers a founded basis to successfully meet the challenges of the future.

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The new firm structure assures, that we can react to customer’s requests still more
flexible and faster.

Our strength is it, to fulfill your wishes an make the apparently impossible possible.

Our strengths

individual customers service

high-quality products

reliable supplies

fast & flexible reactions

Portrait

Today

GarnTec is specialist for the production of paper yarns, paper cords, binding twines, decoration yarns as well as for the area of the cable industry swellable yarns, swellable yarns with paper inlay, swellable tapes, separating tapes and cable insulating paper for all kind of cable applications.

2024

Re-certification for DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 through TAW Cert GmbH, New certification for DIN EN ISO 14001:2015 through ALL-CERT Gesellschaft für Zertifizierungen mbH

2020

Re-certification for DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 through TAW Cert GmbH, additional energy audit according to the peak compensation efficiency system regulation (SpaEfV) for analysis and recording of the energy sources used

2018

Re-certification for DIN EN ISO 9001:2015, 14001:2015 and 50001:2011 (Energy Management System) through TÜV Nord

2013

ISO-Certification 50001 (Energy Management System)

2004

renewal of the ISO-Certificate 14001:2004

2003

ISO-Certification 9001:2000

2000

OCTOBER: From the spinning mill of the Julius Glatz GmbH the new company GarnTec was founded

2000

ISO-Certification 14001

1998

Start of the production of paper tapes

1997

ISO-Certification 9001

1996

Start of the production of swellable yarns, swellable yarns with paper inlay and swellable tapes

1992

Start of the production of paper cords for the cable industry

1945

After the destruction of the paper spinning mill during the Second World War the reconstruction was started. Paper cable yarns for paper-isolated telephone cables have become main sales products.

1914

Paper yarns replace textile yarns due to lack of raw materials

1912

The paper spinning mill moved from Julius Glatz into the buildings of Hemmer machine factory AG. Developing and patenting of the production of paper yarns by Dr. Erwin Glatz. Start of the production of paper cable yarns and vine binding twines.

1907

Julius Glatz acquires the Hemmer AG machine factory in Neidenfels