Plastic processing - acceptance, processing and distribution

The plastics plant in Bremen specializes in the processing of new goods and post-industrial plastics. Since 2001, thermoplastic plastics and elastomers have been processed into compounds, granules, pellets and regrinds for further processing in industry. The plant has been part of the Bremer Hirsch Group since 2012.

The history of the Bremen plastics plant

The company Plastolen GmbH was founded in Bremen in 1979. It specialized in the production and refinement of plastic raw materials. Until 2001 the company was based in a company site on the former AG Weser site in the Bremen industrial port.

When the AG-Weser site was restructured as part of the plans for the former Space Park (today's waterfront), the Plastolen plant moved to the Bremen industrial park in Bremen-Oslebshausen.

2001
commissioned by as Pongs & Zahn Kunststoffwerk Bremen
This summarized the activities of the following companies in one location:

Plastolen GmbH Bremen - regranulation of various thermoplastics
Thekaflex GmbH Sevetal - thermoplastic elastomers based on styrene rubbers (TPE-S)
and AT compound San Vittorio (CH) - PP compounds.

The product portfolio at that time:   
PONALEN - PP compounds based on new goods
PONAMID - polyamide compounds based on new goods (PA6; PA66)
PONAFLEX - TPE-S compounds
PONACOM PP - PP compounds based on regranulates, agglomerates and
regrinds PONACOM PA - polyamide compounds based on regranulates, Agglomerates and regrinds

2003
Unnamed: at PONACHEM Kunststoffwerk Bremen.

2005
Value Plast AG takes over the operative business and the current plastics plant in Bremen receives the function as a wage compounder with a sole client.
Both companies continue to belong to the Pongs & Zahn Group.

2010
bankruptcy of the Pongs & Zahn Group.

2012
Takeover of the plant by the Hirsch Group.