POLYPENCO
Polypenco
The history of POLYTRON's origins
POLYmer PENnsylvania COrporation - POLYPENCO was the name of the foreign branches of the American POLYMER Corporation.
Founded in 1946 by Louis Stott, the POLYMER Corporation with its POLYPENCO subsidiaries scattered all over the world, has been a pioneer in the field of engineering plastics and semi-finished products from the very beginning. Stott was the first to process polyamide, also known as nylon in the USA, into technically usable semi-finished products, thus initiating a development which is still ongoing today.
The POLYMER Corporation with its POLYPENCO subsidiaries has long been the leading force in the market for semi-finished technical plastic products. Like many large companies, however, it changed hands several times over the years and was more or less broken up at the end of the 1990s. Many good inventions and products were sold, decades of experience were abandoned and some of the subsidiaries were sold off.
The German POLYPENCO, like many other POLYPENCO companies, was split up and sold. The branch in Sinsheim near Heidelberg remained with the former owner DSM. The sealing business was sold separately to the Italian GAPI s.r.l. . The Nylaflow® business (high-pressure hoses) was sold to Parker Hannifin and the granulate business with the brands Plaslube® and Electrafil® was sold to Techmer.
The head office in Bergisch Gladbach near Cologne, including buildings, some of the employees and the Shapes & Parts business, was bought by the Wuppertal entrepreneur Bernd Henderkott in 1999. Since then the company has been trading under the name POLYTRON Kunststofftechnik GmbH & Co. KG.
Today POLYTRON is a successful family business, now in its second generation of management, and is known as the acknowledged specialist for complex components made of special and high-performance plastics.
The remaining parts of the old POLYMER Corporation were taken over by Quadrant AG in 2001 and, together with further acquisitions have since been fully transferred to the Japanese Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation in 2013 (in this country: Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials).
Hardly any invention has changed the world as much as the discovery of plastics more than 100 years ago. Here is a brief overview of their history ....
Back to the present! If you have any questions about our company and portfolio, the POLYTRON team in Bergisch Gladbach will be happy to help you! You will find your contact person here!