Our history
Erich Lenz founds a small business with Karl Franke in Stettin and starts the production of glass laboratory equipment with a roughly 10-strong workforce.
The company picks up the pieces after the 2nd World War with the rebuilding of the glass blowing shop in Ilmenau in Thuringia.
The firm moves to Wertheim am Main, which has remained the company’s domicile to the present day.
Erich Lenz’s son Eckhard joins the business.
Participation in Lenz® Labor Instruments in the Netherlands.
Consistent growth in product sales. As a result of the company’s expansion, the production facilities have to be extended several times. The first semi-automatic unit is purchased for the machine grinding shop.
Eckhard Lenz takes over the running of the business. With Unilvetro as its distributor, activities are extended to the Italian market.
Lenz® Glasinstrumente celebrates its 50th anniversary with close to 50 employees.
Lenz® enters into cooperation with Rudolf Brand in Wertheim.
Establishment of the subsidiary Vitrum-Vertrieb, which sells arts-&-crafts-type glassware.
Further participations in Porto Allegre, Brazil, and, in 1991, in Anaheim, Los Angeles.
Completion of the new company building with 4,400 m² of production space and 3,500 m² of storage space.
The company expands enormously and its workforce now grows to 170 employees.
The partners Stefan Lenz and Susanne Eberhard are appointed to the Board of Management of the newly founded Lenz® Laborglas GmbH & Co. KG.
Investment in fully automatic, microprocessor-controlled glass-processing machines − some with robots.
First design steps in developing a solar vacuum tube collector.
Extension of product range by Lenz® flat flange reaction vessel program.
Foundation of subsidiary Lenz® Solartechnik and market launch of solar collector Lenz Alpha LR6. Lenz® Laborglas celebrates its 75th anniversary.
Licence agreement with DURAN® group.
Expansion of the logistic capacity by investment in new, state-of-the-art storage systems.
Intensification and expansion of market presence in Japan and the USA.
Investment in an environmentally friendly wastewater system with purification and recirculation into the production cycle.
Expansion of PV systems for own electricity use in production.
Expansion of production of custom-made products for industrial glass apparatus engineering and the petroleum industry.