At its headquarters in the Vinnhorst district of Hanover, Benecke-Kaliko employed roughly 1,000 staff members producing 36 million square metres (390 million square feet) of surface materials in 2015.
At the Eislingen site, 500 employees manufactured in the same year roughly 18 million square metres (190 million square feet) of thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO).
In 2015, Benecke-Kaliko AG produced approximately 86 million square metres (930 million square feet) of surface materials.
In 2006, Benecke Changshun Auto Trim Co., Ltd. was founded in Zhangjiagang, China, and primarily manufactures PVC foam laminate and PVC-expanded leather for the Chinese automotive industry, producing up to 20 million square metres (220 million square feet) per year. In 2013 a TPO production line was added to this location. As of 2018, it employed a workforce of around 480 staff members. This company is a joint venture with the Chinese automotive plastics retailer Jiangsu Changshun Group Co., Ltd.
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A new plant was built in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, in 2008.
The company has invested around €8 million in the factory. Since the start of 2009, this plant has been producing PVC foam laminate and PVC-expanded leather, as well as TPO compact foil and foam laminate for the American market – up to 7 million square metres (75 million square feet) a year. The plant employed around 250 staff members in 2018.
Benecke-Kaliko has sales offices in numerous countries worldwide such as the USA, Brazil and India.
In the fall of 2014, Benecke-Kaliko started building a second Chinese plant in Changzhou. Series production with a capacity of 10 million square metres (110 million square feet) per year started at the end of 2015 with approximately 100 employees. In 2015, the location had 159 employees. In addition, the company has acquired two locations from the Belgian Mecaseat Group in Pamplona, Spain and in Wągrowiec, Poland. Both locations combined had 150 employees in the year 2018 and a capacity to produce around 8 million square metres (86 million square feet) of surface materials.
