Royal Lankhorst Euronete; its roots
In 1803 a young man named Nicolaas Jurjan Lankhorst, married into a family that owned a small factory manufacturing ropes and netting and started “Lankhorst Touwfabrieken”. In 1965 Captain Gramaxo founded his company which later became Grupo Euronete. In 1998 the two companies j oined and merged into the Lankhorst Euronete group bv. In 2003, on the occasion of the group’s bicentennial anniversary, Her Majesty the Queen of The Netherlands g ranted the company by Royal Warrant the predicate “Royal”. History started modestly in 1803 as Lankhorst Touwfabrieken, but the company has since expanded into a multi-faceted enterprise of international stature around 1,300 employees!
Currently, the Royal Lankhorst Euronete group bv consists of five divisions:
- Rope division
- Yarn division
- Pure Composites division
- Fishing division
- Engineered Products division
A timetable with the most important changes and events in Royal Lankhorst Euronete’s history:
- 1803: Family Lankhorst started a local factory manufacturing ropes
- 1930: Lankhorst began to mass-produce binder twine for use in self-binding harvesters
- 1960: Sisal twines became the mainstay of the production within the Lankhorst spinning mills
- 1964: Lankhorst started extrusion of polyethylene and polypropylene
- 1965: Family Gramaxo established their factory for ropes and netting - The holding of Lankhorst Sneek was founded, with four operating companies
- 1983: Lankhorst Taselaar was established, distributing an entire product range for yachting
- 1989: Lankhorst started a co-operation with the Portuguese rope and net maker Grupo Euronete
- 1992: Lankhorst Touwfabrieken was divided into three independent operating companies:
- Lankhorst Touwfabrieken: fiber rope, twines and wire rope
- Lankhorst Indutech: industrial yarns
- Lankhorst Recycling: products made from recycled plastics
Substantial divisions of the Dutch firm Verto, which had gone into bankruptcy, were acquired
A j oint venture named LASH vof., a plastic pallet producing company, was established
Worldwide distributing network for fishing markets was established
- 1998: Merger of Lankhorst Sneek and Euronete into the Lankhorst Euronete group bv
- 2000: A company, named EKON, was acquired
Eurorope Performance Rope Producers, a rope producing j oint- venture in Greece, was established
- 2003: Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands g ranted the predicate “Royal”. The full name of the company was changed into Royal Lankhorst Euronete group bv
- 2007: Foundation of the fifth division Lankhorst Pure Composites
Foundation of our Representative Office in Beijing, China
Acquisition of Quintas & Quintas Offshore Mooring Systems in Portugal
- 2008: Foundation of the sixth division: Yarn Division