Boxmark

The History

Today, BOXMARK World Leather, a subsidiary of H. Schmidt Holding GmbH, manufactures and processes around 12,400,000 m² upholstery leathers worldwide, year in, year out.

BOXMARK consistently focuses its services and products on its customers, fine tuned with all the qualitative, economic and ecologic requirements needed in a modern business. BOXMARK will maintain and enhance its reputation as a strongly performing partner and reliable supplier for the automotive and furniture industry.

The history of BOXMARK World Leather is inseparably linked to the production and processing of leather as a natural product. Traditional leather production for over 200 years’ ranges from vegetable-tanned sole leather, shoe leather and chamois to the modern-day industrial production of high-class upholstery leather for the furniture and automotive industries.

BOXMARK could not have operated so successfully without the men and women who have done such an excellent job through all the years. BOXMARK’s success story is forever linked to their dedication, commitment and passion for leather as an extraordinarily unique natural product.

1780: Launch of Jennersdorf tannery, Austria. Sole leather production
1840: Production of vegetable shoe upper leather
1914: Production of shoe upper leather for the Imperial and Royal Army of the Austrian Empire

After World War I the production site was moved from Jennersdorf to Kaindorf, Austria

1936: Launch of a new tannery in Leibnitz . Nubuck and Nappa leather production for the garment industry
1940: Involvement in wartime economy procurement
1948: Start of leather upholstery production for furniture industry
1953: Restructuring and focusing of the entire production line on the manufacture of high-quality leather upholstery
1956: Manufactured products are exported to 9 European countries

1960: Leather Production quantity is about 4,000 m² daily
1982: Relaunch of "Lederfabrik Schmidt-Feldbach" in Feldbach, Austria, Plant I
1985: A new split leather plant in Feldbach
1986: Newly built fully biological company sewage treatment plant in Feldbach
1989: Expansion and completion of a second tannery in Feldbach, Plant II

1990: Set up of a contemporary finishing plant in Feldbach, Plant I/II
1991: Further expansion of in-house sewage treatment plant handling sewage for the equivalent of 250,000 people
1995: Cooperation with BOXMARK d.o.o. for cutting and sewing work in Slovenia
1997: Opening of a new, fully integrated leather production plant including a sewage treatment plant in Jennersdorf (southern Burgenland), Austria, Plant III
1998: Expansion of cutting and sewing plant in Slovenia

2000: Relaunch of Schmidt-Feldbach company to BOXMARK World Leather
2001: Cooperation with BOXMARK d.o.o. for cutting and sewing work in Croatia
2002: Opening of a highly sophisticated Research and Development Center (RDC) in Feldbach, Austria
2002: Set up of a central leather logistics warehouse in Jennersdorf, Austria
2005: Starting up of a modern cutting and sewing plant in Croatia by BOXMARK d.o.o.
2007: XTREME Revolution: Development of the worldwide unique leather innovation by BOXMARK for exclusive In- und Outdoor areas
 
 
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