New MehlerHeytex brand combines the best of two worlds
Hückelhoven/Bramsche, March, 2025. From now on, Mehler Texnologies and Heytex will be known by the new name of MehlerHeytex. This name is a visible sign of the merger between the two companies and sets new standards for customers and other business partners – because in future, proven know-how will be preserved and new potential unlocked. With greater innovation strength, MehlerHeytex will continue to stand for the highest quality and first-class service.
“The standardized market presence is an important step towards more clarity and transparency for our customers and other business partners. It represents the best of two worlds. We continue to work at top speed on the merger of Mehler Texnologies and Heytex, so that our customers can benefit from all the advantages of this acquisition as quickly as possible,” Dr. Henk R. Randau, Senior Vice President Coated Technical Textiles, said.
Customers will be kept updated
For the time being, the new corporate brand is the only change for customers and other business partners of the coated technical textiles specialist. All other aspects of business relations such as contacts, addresses and banking details remain unchanged for the present. The further merging of the two companies will take place step-by-step. MehlerHeytex will keep its customers and business partners continuously updated on relevant changes.
Background
Freudenberg Performance Materials Holding GmbH, the parent company of Mehler Texnologies, acquired the core business of the Heytex Group in December 2024. Since then, this part of Heytex with three production locations in Germany and China, as well as all headquarter-related functions, belong to MehlerHeytex, the newly-formed specialist for coated technical textiles.
About MehlerHeytex
MehlerHeytex brings together Mehler Texnologies and the core business of the Heytex Group, both leading global specialists for coated technical textiles. With some 1,000 employees at the production locations in Germany, Czech Republic and China, as well as sales offices worldwide the company serves numerous markets. MehlerHeytex products are used, for example, in truck tarpaulins and container covers, door seals, biogas membranes, drinking water tanks, tents, inflatable boats, as well as advertising media in large-format digital printing.
Contacts for media inquiries
MehlerHeytex
Marcia Moors, Marketing Communications Manager
Rheinstrasse 11 / 41836 Hückelhoven / Germany
Tel. +49 2433 459 255
Marcia.Moors@freudenberg-pm.com
Senta Kespohl, Marketing & Assistant to CEO
Heywinkelstraße 1 / 49565 Bramsche / Germany
Tel. +49 5468 7774 353
Senta.Kespohl@ freudenberg-pm.com
Freudenberg Performance Materials Holding SE & Co. KG
Katrin Böttcher
Manager Global Media Relations
Höhnerweg 2-4 / 69469 Weinheim / Deutschland
Tel.: +49 6201 7107 014
Katrin.Boettcher@freudenberg-pm.com
About Freudenberg Performance Materials
Freudenberg Performance Materials is a leading global supplier of innovative technical textiles for a broad range of markets and applications such as apparel & shoe, building, civil engineering, energy, filtermedia, healthcare, household & living, industrial & manufacturing, mobility & transport, as well as coated technical textiles. In 2024, the company generated sales of more than €1.4 billion, operated 35 production sites in 14 countries around the world and had around 5,000 employees. Freudenberg Performance Materials attaches great importance to social and ecological responsibility as the basis for its business success. For more information, please visit www.freudenberg-pm.com
In 2024, the Freudenberg Group employed more than 52,000 people in around 60 countries worldwide and generated sales of some €11.9 billion. For more information, please visit www.freudenberg.com
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Heytex Group core business now part of Freudenberg
We are pleased to announce that the acquisition of Heytex Group core business has been successfully completed following approvals from antitrust authorities in Germany, Austria, and Poland. Please find further information here.
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Significant parts of the Heytex Group sold to Freudenberg
Bramsche, September 24, 2024- Private equity investor Bencis Capital Partners is selling the core business of the Heytex Group with three production sites (two in Germany and one in China) and all central functions, including sales, research and development and administration, to Freudenberg Performance Materials (FPM). FPM is active in the market for coated technical textiles, as Heytex is, under the Mehler Texnologies brand. In 2023, the relevant part of the Heytex Group generated sales of around EUR 100 million with approximately 400 employees. The transaction is subject to the approval of the antitrust authorities.
The merger under one roof will enable the new group to strengthen its technology platform and market presence, expand research and development capacities and benefit from each other.
“The Bramsche, Neugersdorf and Zhangjiagang sites will play a key role in the future direction due to their good investment status, as well as the new synergies and expanded resources,” says Hans-Dieter Kohake, CEO of the Heytex Group.
As part of its strategic orientation, Freudenberg is deliberately focusing on the two German and Chinese sites of the Heytex Group, which are ideally suited to the company’s goals and focus. The sites will make a significant contribution to the further development and expansion of the new Group’s market leadership.
The Pulaski (USA) and Nijverdal (Netherlands) sites of Heytex will remain with the current shareholder Bencis Capital Partners and will continue to operate independently.
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