EXTRUDER OF THE MONTH
RKW Head office:
CEO: Founded:
Ownership: Employees: Sales (2017): Profile:
Frankenthal, Germany Harald Biederbick 1957
Private Around 3,000 €902m (around US$1bn)
RKW, founded in 1957 as a manufacturer of plastic film, has since grown – through many acquisitions – into a worldwide organisation that processes more than 375,000 tonnes of plastics per year. It is family-owned, and a market leader in a number of areas, including hygiene and agricultural films.
Product lines:
RKW supplies film for a number of areas, including: hygiene; agriculture; the beverage industry; and packaging for powdery goods. In hygiene and medical, it produces products such as backsheets – both breathable and non-breathable – and perforated film for topsheets. Its brand names include its Aptra breathable films – which can be applied to applications such as protective garments and industrial films – RKW Provent (packaging for powdery goods) and its FPO (filled polyolefin film), used in applications such as butter wrapping.
Factory locations:
As an international manufacturer, RKW has a total of 20 manufacturing sites. In addition to its headquarters in Frankenthal, it has 19 other production sites dotted around the globe. There are seven in Germany (including Micheldorf, where it recently expanded capacity in agricultural films by nearly 25%), three in France, two each in Belgium and the USA, plus various others in countries including Finland, Egypt, Vietnam and – its newest plant – China.
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