30 Years of Doing the Right Thing

KURZ marks three decades of security-foil production at Sulzbach-Rosenberg.

When LEONHARD KURZ GmbH & Co KG opened its optical film facility in SulzbachRosenberg, few could have predicted how profoundly it would shape the global security-feature industry. To this day, the site remains one of the company’s strategic production centres – and an example of industrial renewal, where a region built on coal and steel turned to optics and precision engineering.

Sulzbach-Rosenberg, in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of northern Bavaria, was once defined by heavy industry. Iron ore mining and the Maxhütte steelworks dominated local life for over a century, employing thousands and fuelling the post-war German economy. At its peak, Maxhütte was among Bavaria’s largest industrial employers, producing pig iron and steel for domestic and export markets.