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List of the 150 Largest Plastics Processors Germany [2023 Update]

  • Database

  • September 2023
  • Region: Germany
  • Research Germany
  • ID: 5894917

Product Overview

Contains the 150 largest plastics processors from Germany that work both as suppliers and manufacture end products from plastics. The list is an excerpt from our list of the 5,000 largest companies in Germany.

Excellent level of detail: industry and field of activity, turnover (2015 - 2021) if publicly available, number of employees (2018 - 2021) if publicly available, general contact details, names of management, etc.

Suitable for bulk mailings: list contains columns for German formal salutation, title, first and last name of the management.

High-quality lists thanks to manual data maintenance by an experienced research team in Munich. Boutique research instead of unchecked crawler data.

List of the 3 largest plastics processors in Germany

Plastics processing includes many distinctive business models. In Germany, more than 3,000 companies with 322,000 employees deal with plastics processing. Here are the 3 largest companies in the industry.

1. Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG, Künzelsau

The Würth Group is a conglomerate that covers numerous business fields. The focus is on the wholesale of fastening and assembly technology. However, the Group also owns “manufacturing” companies and subgroups which are active in plastics processing, for example, the pipe system manufacturer IVT.

2. Freudenberg SE, Weinheim

The Freudenberg Group is a major German automotive supplier. Business is divided into the Seals/Vibration Control Technology, Technical Textiles/Filtration, Cleaning Technologies/Products and Specialties Divisions. Plastics processing plays an important role above all in sealing technology and cleaning. Freudenberg has almost 48,000 employees.

3. Röchling SE & Co. KG, Mannheim

Röchling’s history began with coal and steel, and in the meantime it was also a conglomerate. Since the 1980s, Röchling has become a plastics processor. Today, with more than 11,000 employees, Röchling produces plastic parts for industry and supplies plastic components for automotive construction and medical technology.

Update 2023: In 2023, the topics of sustainability and climate neutrality will continue to play a major role for Röchling. This applies both to the expansion of the product range and to the design of production processes. Decisive steps in this direction have recently been taken in various areas of the Company.