The controversial “plastics tax” is becoming a massive threat to small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany. Until now, the federal budget has covered the annual costs of approximately €1.3 – 1.4 billion. But current plans by the federal government envisage shifting these costs directly to the manufacturers and importers in order to plug holes in the budget.
Recycled polystyrene (rPS) makes a significant contribution to helping the food industry achieve its sustainability goals while meeting legal requirements.
Our aim is to get young people interested in the varied career prospects in plastics processing at an early stage and to keep them at our company in the long term.
The underlying recycling process for polystyrene (rPS) developed by Fernholz Verpackungen was included in March 2026 as one of 24 technologies in the new European Union “Union Register of Novel Technologies”.
Fernholz Verpackungen is consistently pushing its growth strategy at its film production site in Schkopau, Saxony-Anhalt. As part of the ongoing investment programme, another high-performance extruder was recently commissioned.
Fernholz Verpackungen, together with ALDI Einkauf SE & Co. oHG and the ZOTT dairy, received the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe (PRSE Award) in the Product Technology Innovation category.
A television crew from Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) visited the Fernholz film production site in Schkopau on 30 January 2026 to produce a report on the status of the central German chemical industry for its news magazine "exakt".
Sustainability, resource conservation and innovative product development are vital to the success of companies in the packaging industry and no longer mere buzzwords.
We welcomed Florian Müller (MP, CDU), Ralf Schwarzkopf (MP, CDU) and Mayor Jan Nesselrath as high-ranking representatives from the federal, state and local government.
With its slogan „We are ready for PPWR”, Fernholz Verpackungen showcased a broad portfolio of PPWR-compliant products and procedures at the FACHPACK
in Nuremberg.
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