Petrex celebrates the equality of women – Women’s Day 2025

Petrex celebrates the equality of women – Women’s Day 2025

“The empowerment of women is the key to unlocking the potential of a nation” (Michelle Obama, 21st March 2024).

Petrex celebrates the greatness of women! One key to a harmonic and also successful company is a diverse but also equal environment.
Saturday, 8th of March 2025 was this year’s International Women’s Day. Petrex wants to take advantage of the opportunity to say thanks to all women, especially in our company for being an important part and making a huge impact on the company’s success.
We also want to welcome our new female team members, we are proud to have them in the Petrex family.
To empower women, Petrex takes several actions all over the year. One step to support future female leaders is to take part on girls day, 3rd of April 2025.
In the occasion of this year’s women’s day Petrex supported a women’s advice center.

We also invite our stakeholders to join us to improve the workplace of tomorrow by empowering women.

Please feel free to reach out to us if you are curious to learn more.

“Green Light” for our ISO 9001 certification

“Green Light” for our ISO 9001 certification

In February, we have successfully passed our first control inspection for our ISO 9001:2015 certification. Such an inspection is done on a yearly basis. Every third year a full audit is performed to ensure that everything is up to standard.

During the inspection no major and no minor non-confirmities were detected. This underlines our commitment to providing the best possible service to everyone involved with us.

Generally, the ISO 9001:2015 certification analyzes a business based on

  • Requirements for a QMS, including documented information, planning and determining process interactions
  • Responsibilities of management
  • Management of resources, including human resources and an organization’s work environment
  • Product realization, including the steps from design to delivery
  • Measurement, analysis, and improvement of the QMS through activities like internal audits and corrective and preventive action

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.

Petrex joins the Charta der Vielfalt

Petrex joins the Charta der Vielfalt

Petrex greatly values diversity, equity and inclusion within our team, along our supply chain and in the society. This is why we are excited to announce that we recently signed the „Charta der Vielfalt” (“Diversity Charter”) – an initiative and network of companies and institutions in Germany who are committed to promoting diversity in the workplace.

We have anchored diversity as an integral part of our values. We are an organization composed of many individuals with different cultural backgrounds, beliefs and personalities and work with international partners. We strongly oppose to any discrimination based on any superficial or immoral criteria during recruiting and at the workplace.

But we do not plan to stop here. We are committed to making diversity, equity and inclusion more visible within our company and in our surrounding. For us, this means developing awareness and promoting our values in upcoming events, workshops and outreach activities. Stay tuned for more information!

We also invite our stakeholders to join us in this step to make the workplace of tomorrow more inclusive. Please feel free to reach out to us if you are curious to learn more.

Chinese New Year – Public Holidays in China 2025

Chinese New Year – Public Holidays in China 2025

Dear business partner,

The Chinese New Year of 2025 falls on January 29th (Wednesday), and will last to February 2nd. It is the Year of the Snake. As an official public holiday, Chinese people can get eight days’ off from work, from January 28th to February 4th.

Chinese people believe that what you do at the beginning of a new year will affect your luck in the coming year. Staying up on Chinese New Year’s eve on January 28th and saying good words to your family/friends will will certainly bring good luck!

Below we would like to share the dates of public holidays in China 2025:

  • International New Year         Jan 1
  • Chinese New Year                 Jan 28 – Feb 4
  • Qing Ming Festival                Apr 4 – 6
  • Labor Day                              May 1 – 5
  • Dragon Boat Festival            May 31
  • National Day                          Oct 1 – 8
Petrex wishes all partners Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Petrex wishes all partners Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Dear business partners,

In 2024 the industries have started to slowly recover from recent crises, but we are still noticing long-term effects. Supply chains remain vulnerable and we need to stay alert. Together, we have successfully navigated through the last years´ challenges and we feel prepared for the future.

We would like to thank all business partners for the successful cooperation.

From the entire Petrex team we wish you wonderful holidays with your family and a good start to 2025!

Petrex

Virtual Suppliers Day 2024

Virtual Suppliers Day 2024

On December 15th, we hosted our first Virtual Suppliers Day with some of our key suppliers. During this event, we discussed the potentials and challenges of a more sustainable supply chain for chemical and API products. This is to ensure we conduct business responsibly and stay competitive by abiding with new regulations.

On this occasion, we also advertised the participation of our suppliers in independent sustainability ratings and the calculation of Product Carbon Footprints (PCF). This will enable us to reach our goal of getting a full picture of our Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and for defining emission reduction targets.

We will continue the dialogue with our valued suppliers and stakeholders on sustainability in 2025 and look forward to the next Suppliers Day.

Petrex is celebrating 25 years – Thank you for your trust

Petrex is celebrating 25 years – Thank you for your trust

1999 Petrex started with the idea to connect distant markets, and create a real benefit for everyone involved. Our philosophie remains the same to this day: do business properly, never sacrifice short-term gains for long-term uncertainties. Follow highest ethical standards and create long-lasting relationships. We follow these principles internally and externally, and the success story speaks for itself.

Without you, our clients and partners, all this would not have been possible. We thank you deeply for the continued trust and look forward to the next 25 years.

Your Petrex GmbH Team

Road to Product Carbon Footprints

Road to Product Carbon Footprints

We recently started a campaign for obtaining Product Carbon Footprints, or short PCF, for our portfolio. This will help our customers, our suppliers and us to assess the greenhouse gas emission impact of our business more transparently and enable us to work together on further reducing our impact.

Last week, we achieved the milestone of  obtaining the first PCF. Until 2025, we aim to add more PCFs for our key products. We look forward to this exciting journey!

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions on how we work to minimize our environmental impact here at Petrex.

Meet us at CPHI 2024 in Milan!

Meet us at CPHI 2024 in Milan!

CPHI Worldwide is the flagship trade show of the international pharmaceutical industry. Companies specialized in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics and other industry related sectors use this yearly event to network and collaborate.

About

This year the exhibition takes place from Oct 8, 2024 – Oct 10, 2024 in Milan, Italy. 1.800 exhibitors and 45.000 professional visitors from 170 countries are expected to participate.

Meet us

Team Petrex will be there! We’re looking forward to meeting you. Please contact us for setting an appointment.

Sustainability: EcoVadis Platinum & TfS

Sustainability: EcoVadis Platinum & TfS

Growing together as a sustainable company

For years, Petrex has invested a great deal in becoming a greener and more sustainable company. Improving sustainability and awareness as a company along with our stakeholders is the highest priority for us. Recently, we received more recognition for our efforts in sustainability:

In August, we once again achieved the Platinum Medal status by the CSR rating provider EcoVadis. This recognizes us as one of the Top 1% companies participating in EcoVadis assessments and underlines our ambitions as a responsible business partner at the forefront of sustainability.

Petrex GmbH reached the EcoVadis platinum medal

We were also successfully audited by the Together for Sustainability (TfS) initiative in July 2024.

We thank all our stakeholders for challenging the status quo in sustainability. We will continue to strive for excellence and further improve the transparency along our supply chain.