The Draak family, entrepreneurs based in Hamburg/Germany, recognized the enormous potential of plastics recycling in the late 1950's and began to specialize in processing clean manufacturing scrap purchased from plastics converters. Today RSH POLYMERE GmbH annually sells over 60,000 tonnes of high-quality pelletized plastics, primarily recycled and compounded resins, to extrusion and injection-moulding converters.

Flexible and innovative solutions

RSH offers customers flexible, innovative solutions with quick response and customer-personalized applications engineering. Our operational processes are highly efficient due to outstanding teamwork throughout the company. All process steps in our plant including materials transfer and storage are 100 % traceable and verifiable.

Using our extensive technical expertise and equipment line-up, we determine the raw material properties and process parameters required to meet and exceed your manufacturing and quality requirements. We draw up a resin specification for you which is customized for your production facility and strengthens your value chain.

Our staff pledges to precisely comply with specifications agreed upon with customers and to continuously monitor this compliance. RSH is recognized as the quality leader in the plastics recycling sector. If you need 100 % recycled resin in large quantities with constant quality within narrow tolerances, we are the people to come to. With regard to quality, RSH recyled resin products can compete on even terms with virgin resins. From economic and ecological standpoints, they are in fact frequently better because their production offers greater cost-saving potential and up to 93 % reduction in CO2e emissions – therefore providing CO2e footprint benefits for downstream processors.

Company Management

The management of the company, the third generation of the Draak family, embraces traditional Hanseatic values such as prudent business judgement, financially sound growth, good faith in all dealings, win-win business relationships, fairness and dependability.

History

Milestones

2016

25th anniversary of RSH POLYMERE

2009

Compounding operations begin

2006

Construction of Bomlitz plant in Walsrode Industrial Park

2003

RSH POLYMERE GmbH purchases Kunststoffwerk Draak

1997

Recycle pelletization and plastic scrap grinding operations begin

1991

Founding of RSH POLYMERE GmbH by Renate, Swen and Helmut Draak, with operational focus on plastics trading

1985

Construction of main production plant building, accommodation of all production activities under one roof

1964

Founding of Kunststoffwerk Draak. The plastics plant is located on Vierhöfener Strasse in Garstedt (bordering on the famous Lüneburg Heath). Production 5 days a week, utilizing newly acquired forklift trucks and blending silos. Delivery to customers by the company's own fleet of trucks.

1962

The Draak family moves the company into new premises, an old dairy located in the village of Kirchgellersen just outside of Lüneburg. The building offers enough space for the company's first Extruder.

1960

The company moves into an abandoned margarine factory on Horner Landstrasse in the Hamburg district of Billstedt. A new company slogan is born: "From Billstedt (as regrind) to Hong Kong and Morocco and back to Billstedt (as plastic consumer goods)".

1958

Founding of Werner Draak KG by Werner and Walter Draak. This grinding plant for plastic scrap is located on Spaldingstrasse in Hamburg's Berliner Tor district.