A reliable partner in challenging times: responding to COVID-19

RKW is taking swift and decisive action to ensure both safety and supply. At RKW, the safety of not only our employees, but also our customers, business partners, neighbors, and communities is our top priority.

That is why we have taken immediate, effective action to do our part in flattening the curve. We have put in place extensive measures to protect our employees worldwide while keeping production up and running. These steps not only comply with, but also exceed, the instructions of local authorities. They include, among others, the suspension of business travel, enactment of large-scale mobile working, and the strictest hygiene measures at our production facilities.

The RKW Group remains fully operational during this crisis. Thanks to robust systems and comprehensive IT infrastructure, we are continuously available to our partners and customers. And our global network of manufacturing sites is staying the course. Especially now, consumers all over the world require the products that support hygiene, food distribution, and medicine. That is why we, as manufacturer of excellent film solutions, are focusing our efforts on both safety and supply.

Challenging times call for community and collaboration. Our work is about more than producing sustainable film solutions. We also stand for reliability: Reliability as a partner, reliability as an employer, and reliability as a supplier for many of the fundamental resources that communities will need in the months ahead.

We are keeping a close eye on developments, and strategies are in place to respond effectively to potential risks. We encourage our partners to contact us in case of questions – or simply to find out how we can join together to overcome this challenge safely.

The RKW Group is an independent, privately owned company headquartered in Mannheim, Germany and one of the world’s foremost manufacturers of excellent film solutions. RKW is the market leader in the areas of hygiene and agricultural films, films for the beverage industry and packaging for powdery goods. In addition, the company makes films and nonwovens for medical applications, for the chemical and converting industries as well as for the construction sector. RKW’s sustainable films enable its customers to improve the daily life of consumers all over the world. In the fiscal year 2020, RKW generated total sales of EUR 784 million. About 3,000 employees process 350,000 metric tons of plastic materials at 19 locations around the world. True to the corporate slogan “When excellence matters”, the company, which was founded in 1957, offers outstanding performance in terms of quality and service. Respect and reliability are the core values of RKW and form the basis of the company’s success.

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