01.01.03
Location: Verlaat, The Netherlands
Sales: $47 Million
Description: Key Personnel
Nico Boot, managing director; Albert Feyts, finance director; Paul Verwoerd, sales and marketing director; Jan Sikkenga, production director
ISO status
ISO 9001; 2000 certified since 1993
Processes
Drylaid web forming, chemical and thermal bonding, lamination, coating, impregnating, calendaring, slitting, spooling
Brand Names
Condenstop, Coremat, Finishmat, Soric
Major Markets
Cable, fiber reinforced plastics/composites, construction, building, packaging, automotive, label systems
Lantor BV, Veenandaal, The Netherlands, was able to keep its sales stable in 2002, despite difficult economic conditions and a weak U.S. dollar. Furthermore, earnings levels remained healthy. “One of our key strengths is that we do not heavily depend on one particular business but operate in six different industrial markets and in more than 75 countries,” explained Paul Verwoerd, sales and marketing director. “This way, we are able to balance out industry and regional ups and downs.”
Key markets for Lantor include cable, fiber-reinforced plastic composites, construction, packaging, automotives and label systems. In the cable market, where the company manufactures a polyester chembond/superabsorbent polymer product that is wrapped or folded around the core of the cable, sales increased in the energy and telecommunications industry, despite a general slowdown in these markets. While benefitting from new products, flexible logistics and a proactive sales and marketing team. this segment is not expected to recover until 2005.
Lantor’s composites business has received a boost from the introduction of Soric, a polyester nonwoven containing a pressure-resistant honeycomb cell structure, which was specifically designed for closed-mold processes such as vacuum infusion, RTM and continuous laminating. Meanwhile, Construction, another key market for Lantor, has benefited from the success of the Condenstop product range which controls condensation in corrugated steel buildings, without the use of a coating. Finally, Lantor’s packaging business has lately been characterized by reduced orders but several promising projects are currently in the works. Executives expect the company to benefit from these projects by the end of the year.
Sales: $47 Million
Description: Key Personnel
Nico Boot, managing director; Albert Feyts, finance director; Paul Verwoerd, sales and marketing director; Jan Sikkenga, production director
ISO status
ISO 9001; 2000 certified since 1993
Processes
Drylaid web forming, chemical and thermal bonding, lamination, coating, impregnating, calendaring, slitting, spooling
Brand Names
Condenstop, Coremat, Finishmat, Soric
Major Markets
Cable, fiber reinforced plastics/composites, construction, building, packaging, automotive, label systems
Lantor BV, Veenandaal, The Netherlands, was able to keep its sales stable in 2002, despite difficult economic conditions and a weak U.S. dollar. Furthermore, earnings levels remained healthy. “One of our key strengths is that we do not heavily depend on one particular business but operate in six different industrial markets and in more than 75 countries,” explained Paul Verwoerd, sales and marketing director. “This way, we are able to balance out industry and regional ups and downs.”
Key markets for Lantor include cable, fiber-reinforced plastic composites, construction, packaging, automotives and label systems. In the cable market, where the company manufactures a polyester chembond/superabsorbent polymer product that is wrapped or folded around the core of the cable, sales increased in the energy and telecommunications industry, despite a general slowdown in these markets. While benefitting from new products, flexible logistics and a proactive sales and marketing team. this segment is not expected to recover until 2005.
Lantor’s composites business has received a boost from the introduction of Soric, a polyester nonwoven containing a pressure-resistant honeycomb cell structure, which was specifically designed for closed-mold processes such as vacuum infusion, RTM and continuous laminating. Meanwhile, Construction, another key market for Lantor, has benefited from the success of the Condenstop product range which controls condensation in corrugated steel buildings, without the use of a coating. Finally, Lantor’s packaging business has lately been characterized by reduced orders but several promising projects are currently in the works. Executives expect the company to benefit from these projects by the end of the year.