History
| 1899 | Formation of the „Vereinigte Glanzstoff Fabriken“, the forerunner to the present day ENKA company, in Oberbruch near Aachen. The basis for business was the registered patent for production of cellulosic filament yarn in 1897. |
| 1901 | Relocation of the Head Office to Elberfeld, which is now a district of Wuppertal. |
| 1910 | Commercial production of ENKA® Viscose filament yarns via the discontinuous spool spinning process for textile applications begins. |
| 1955 | Development of the spinning process for the continuous production of viscose filament yarns. |
| 1985 | Further refinement of the continuous production method resulting in the “continue process“, now called ENKA® CHEV technology. |
| 1999 | Foundation of Acordis, ENKA is an independent member of the Acordis Group. |
| 2004 | ENKA® Viscose filament yarn is produced by two different methods - the spool spinning method and the continuous method with CHEV technology - in four production facilities in Germany |
| 2005 | Enka was sold by Acordis to the International Chemical Investors Group. |
| 2006 | Foundation of a joint venture with Jilin Chemical Fibre Stock Co. Ltd, Jilin/China. The goal is to produce ENKA® Viscose filament yarn by the continuous method with CHEV technology from mid 2007 in China. |
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