History
| 1931 | 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. |  |
| 1945 | The company picks up the pieces after the 2nd World War with the rebuilding of the glass blowing shop in Ilmenau in Thuringia. | |
| 1952 | The firm moves to Wertheim am Main, which has remained the company's domicile to the present day. | |
| 1964 | Erich Lenz's son Eckhard joins the business. | |
| 1967 | Participation in Lenz Labor Instruments in the Netherlands. | |
| 1968 -1979 |
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. | |
| 1980 | Eckhard Lenz takes over the running of the business. With Unilvetro as its distributor, activities are extended to the Italian market. | |
| 1981 | Lenz Glasinstrumente celebrates its 50th anniversary with close to 50 employees. | |
| 1982 | Lenz enters into cooperation with Rudolf Brand in Wertheim. | |
| 1984 | Establishment of the subsidiary Vitrum-Vertrieb, which sells arts-&-crafts-type glassware. | |
| 1990 /1991 |
Further participations in Porto Allegre, Brazil, and, in 1991, in Anaheim, Los Angeles. | |
| 1995 | Completion of the new company building with 4,400 m² of production space and 3,500 m² of storage space. |  |
| 1995 -1999 |
The company expands enormously and its workforce now grows to 170 employees. | |
| 1999 | The partners Stefan Lenz and Susanne Eberhard are appointed to the Board of Management of the newly founded Lenz Laborglas GmbH & Co. KG. | |
| 2000 | Investment in fully automatic, microprocessor-controlled glass-processing machines − some with robots. Production is based on a DIN ISO 9001/EN 29001 quality management system. In addition to the successful core range of ground joints and glass laboratory equipment, the company increasingly produces systems and one-offs to customer specification, e.g. high-precision application and melting processes and large-volume glass apparatus. | |
| 2002 | First design steps in developing a solar vacuum tube collector. | |
| 2003 | Extension of product range by Lenz flat flange reaction vessel program. | |
| 2006 | Foundation of subsidiary Lenz Solartechnik and market launch of solar collector Lenz Alpha LR6. Lenz Laborglas celebrates its 75th anniversary. |
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| 2010 | Licence agreement with DURAN group. | |
| 2011 | Expansion of the logistic capacity by investment in new, state-of-the-art storage systems. | |
