{"id":253,"date":"2021-02-03T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/?page_id=253"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:52:18","slug":"geschichte","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/geschichte\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Roots. Origins. Evolution.<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]2025<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Covestro successfully completes aquisition of Pontacol<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Covestro has successfully completed the acquisition of Pontacol, a Swiss manufacturer of multilayer adhesive films, effective August 28, 2025. With this acquisition, Covestro is expanding its films business to include highly specialized flat and blown films. These products strategically complement the existing portfolio and open up new growth opportunities.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text]2020<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Merger of Pontacol AG with the film extrusion plants of Emerell AG and GmbH<\/strong> <\/b>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The incorporation of the extrusion capacities creates the first competence center for thermoplastic adhesive films under the Pontacol brand. Locations Schmitten, Switzerland and Buxtehude, Germany.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text]2017<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Founding of Pontacol AG<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Pontacol AG, a development and sales company for thermoplastic adhesive films, was founded in Schmitten, Switzerland, following the spin-off of the adhesive film activities from Collano. (Collano AG remains active in the adhesives market).<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text]2007 to 2009<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Generation change at <\/span><\/span>Collano<\/span><\/span>: new CEO Stefan Leumann<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Collano AG is split-up into three independent companies:
\nCollano AG (adhesives sales), nolax AG (adhesives innovation), Emerell AG\/GmbH (production of adhesives and films).<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text]2002<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Sarna Xiro adhesive film technology to be acquired by Collano AG<\/span><\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Collano takes over both production sites for adhesive film technology from Sarna Xiro, Schmitten, Switzerland and Buxtehude, Germany. The adhesive film brand \u201cXiro\u201d is being integrated into the adhesives brand \u201cCollano\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text]1996 to<\/strong>\u00a02000<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Collano brand of adhesives is introduced<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Gradual change of company name:
\nEbn\u00f6ther AG \u2013 Collano Ebn\u00f6ther AG \u2013 Collano AG[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text]1994
\n<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Merger of Xiro und Gutacoll
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Sarna AG, Switzerland, takes over the two companies Xiro AG, Switzerland, and Gutacoll GmbH, Germany. Both companies are renamed Sarna Xiro AG\/GmbH.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text]1972<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Founding of Balatros\/Gutacoll GmbH
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Balatros GmbH, Germany, establishes a company for the production of thermoplastic foils and thus lays the foundation for the production of adhesive films at the Buxtehude site. O<\/span>ut of which Guttacoll GmbH was born in 1983.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text]1969<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Founding of Xiro AG<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The company Xiro AG for the production of thermoplastic adhesive films is founded in Schmitten (Kt. Freiburg), Switzerland.<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text]1947<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Year of Ebn\u00f6ther AG\u2019s foundation<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Pioneering work in the polymerization of dispersions leads to the development of an up-and-coming adhesives company.<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Roots. Origins. Evolution. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”story-item”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]2025[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Covestro successfully completes aquisition of Pontacol[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Covestro has successfully completed the acquisition of Pontacol, a Swiss manufacturer of multilayer adhesive films, effective August 28, 2025. With this acquisition, Covestro is expanding its films business to include highly specialized flat and blown films. These products strategically complement the existing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5096,"href":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions\/5096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pontacol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}