by Petrex GmbH | Sep 1, 2025 | Recent news
China National Day, officially the National Day of the People’s Republic of China, is annually celebrated on October 1st to commemorate the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Usually Chinese people enjoy a 7-day public holiday, which is known as Golden Week. This year however, the Golden Week will run from October 1 to October 8, an extended eight-day period that combines the National Day on October 1 with the Mid-Autumn Festival on October 6. To facilitate this extended break, the public holidays on September 28 (Sunday) and October 11 (Saturday) are designated as working days.
During Golden Week 2024 in China, a record-breaking 826 millon trips were recorded, with a significant economic boost of over 754 billion yuan in tourism spending. This surpasses pre-pandemic figures and marks a major post-pandemic revival of tourism for both domestic and international travel, making it one of the busiest holiday periods in China.
by Petrex GmbH | Jul 28, 2025 | Recent news
Our subsidiary PETREX (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD. has recently moved from No. 600 Hengfeng Road to No. 568 Hengfeng Road in Jingan District, Shanghai, China. The new office is bigger and the office building itself has much better facitilities and management.
Petrex has started its activities in China already in the year 2000. Our idea was to benefit from local knowhow to achieve a better sourcing for pharmaceutical and chemical materials. In 2012 we have changed the legal form from a representative office to a limited company to create independent business in China with own sales in the domestic and international markets.
Most members in our team Shanghai are with our company for more than 10 years. We are convinced that their experience will not only guarantee continuous good sourcing support for our GmbH but also help to develop more business in Petrex Shanghai.
by Petrex GmbH | Jul 10, 2025 | Recent news
During the last couple of weeks Petrex and its suppliers worked hard to pave the road to best quality and sustainability! Facing new environmental challenges and regulations, Petrex has reviewed and updated its standards to reflect current best practices. Doing so, we worked on a new questionnaire that our suppliers completed. That led to more transparency and gave us the chance to make recommendations for actions to support improvement.
We would like to say thank you to all of our suppliers! We highly appreciate your great cooperation.
Be sure we are committed to handling your data in a responsible and strictly confidential manner.
It is our commitment to provide the best possible support to both our suppliers and our customers. We are pushing hard to hold up highest quality and sustainability standards.
Please feel free to reach out to us if you are curious to learn more.
by Petrex GmbH | Jun 27, 2025 | Recent news
The yearly Young Masters soccer tournament will take place on 5 July this year, organized by the football club FC St. Hubert. As the region’s largest event for children’s football, we are happy to support the event and the concept “1:0 for children”.
History
For several years, more than 1,800 primary school students and more than 2,000 visitors have participated in the multiple-day football tournament annually. Sorted by the age groups, the pupils can experience team sports playfully. At the same time, donations are collected for UNICEF.
PETREX JUNIOR CUP
About 30 teams compete against each other in different rounds. Visitors are welcome from 8.45 AM – 4 PM. Petrex is a sponsor for this event and will award the trophy. More information can be found here (German).
by Petrex GmbH | May 28, 2025 | Recent news
27 May was the international diversity day 2025. People are equal and people are divers and that is what makes people unique and valuable. Petrex encourages diversity!
Just in time for the diversity day 2025 we proudly announce that we do have a cooperation with the local school – Thomaeum!
Petrex wants to take responsibility and to be forerunner for diversity and equality.
We want to take part in raising and educating the young adults of tomorrow as open minded and curious individuals.
We start by supporting a workshop against hate and discrimination.
We also invite our stakeholders to join us to support diversity. Please feel free to reach out to us if you are curious to learn more.
by Petrex GmbH | Apr 24, 2025 | Recent news
Petrex uses all kinds of transportation modes to move goods from the production plant to the client. This could be by plane, vessel, train or truck. The most sustainable options are vessel or train. Some of our goods are shipped from China to Rotterdam. After arrival at port, containers are loaded onto inland vessels which use the Rhine river to move the goods across the border to our German clients.
Due to extreme lack of rain in March and April, the Rhine water level has been at a very low level for several weeks. These shallow waters resulted in 50-60% reduced loading capacity and also limited shipping space as well as transport surcharges.
Some rain in the past two weeks has improved the situation slightly. The water level recovered a bit and vessels were able to carry up to 80% capacity again recently. More rain is forecasted, so we expect that the inland shipping will recover by early May.
by Petrex GmbH | Mar 26, 2025 | Recent news
Last month, we organized our first annual Sustainability Day with our employees and internal stakeholders. On this occasion, we held a discussion round and collected feedback on our sustainability strategy as well as ideas for the future. The team came up with plenty of great ideas for making Petrex even more energy-efficient and increase the visibility and effectiveness of our sustainability efforts.
Later in the day, the team visited the exhibition “Planet Ocean” at the Gasometer Oberhausen. There, we learned about how the ocean is our planet’s most important and diverse eco-system which needs to be protected at all cost. We gained new insights on how we can help reducing the human impact on the oceanic eco-system.
This week we made a review-meeting to talk about impressions and ideas that came up after the exhibition. Our team had a lot of interesting ideas that the sustainability management will keep up with.
We look forward to next year’s event and thank everyone for joining and supporting our common mission of doing business responsibly and sustainably.
by Petrex GmbH | Mar 18, 2025 | Recent news, Trade shows
The Petrex team is excited to join the European Coating Show 2025.
About
ECS takes place in Nuernberg, Germany 25th to 27th March. It is a key event for connecting on topics relevant to cutting-edge coating and pigment technologies. This includes new emerging products and markets, green coatings, sustainability and more.
Meet us
Please reach out to us if you would like to schedule a meeting with our team. We look forward to meeting you there!
by Petrex GmbH | Mar 10, 2025 | Recent news
“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.
by Petrex GmbH | Mar 3, 2025 | Recent news
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.
