Sustainability series for sustainable operation - Plastic experts

Date: 2023-08-11

AGRU is a traditional family business in its third generation, whose foundation consists of sustainable plastic solutions. Our success story is based on the highest demands of our customers and the resulting trust in our products and brands. AGRU high-performance products enable technical solutions that sustainably protect people and nature. They are designed for an extremely long service life and can be recycled in just a few process steps at the end of their product life.

Holistic solutions apply not only to our customers and society, but also to our employees. Because innovation is lived in our owner-managed company - and so our employees are always developing new, even more sustainable products. Groundbreaking new developments have characterized AGRU since the beginning of plastics processing over 60 years ago. In 1961, we were one of the first companies in Europe to start producing plastic pipes made of PE and PP. This was followed in 1986 by the then widest geomembranes and our entry into the production of piping systems for computer chips. In 2010, we made history again with the largest, pressure-resistant PE pipe. We also achieved a major milestone with the opening of our own cleanroom plant in 2016 for processing fluoropolymers.

 

In 2016, AGRU opened a cleanroom plant for fluoropolymers.
Today, exciting challenges and opportunities await our company with the megatrends of digitalization or energy supply with hydrogen and renewable energies. We are already working intensively on these topics in internal as well as cooperative research projects with partners from industry and research.


『 Applications to protect our environment』
 

For the secure supply of vital resources, environmental technology applications form the backbone of our corporate activities. Our products are often used where environmental protection is directly involved. The high-performance plastics processed by AGRU are corrosion-resistant, chemically resistant, neutral to drinking water and shatterproof. They therefore have ideal properties for challenging sustainability projects


(Drinking water reserves remain protected from fecal matter by AGRU piping.）
 

Below you will find a selection of current sustainability projects:  
 
• Geomembranes to prevent pollutants from entering the soil
• Piping systems for CO2-neutral generation of "Green Energy"
• Semi-finished products for the purification of industrial waste gases
• Concrete protection plates for the safe disposal of wastewater
 
 
 
Other important areas of application for our products are the safe and sustainable supply of society with:

• Drinking water piping systems
• Drinking water tank linings
• Gas piping systems
• District Cooling piping systems
• Sewer piping systems

 

『 “AGRU – "Be part of the solution”』
 


Our own aspirations, political framework conditions and customer preferences will place even higher demands on our resource efficiency and sustainability in the future. We want to continuously further optimize the ecological footprint of our products and ensure that our plastics solutions continue to be among the best in their class. As the AGRU family, we make a promise to the future: We will go that "extra mile" together!”


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