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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 joined 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 granted 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 six divisions:

• Rope division
• Yarn division
• Pure Composites division
• Fishing division
• Engineered Products division
• Yachting 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 joint 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 joint- venture in Greece, was established 
   
• 2003: Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands granted 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