Petrex Sustainability Day 2025

Petrex Sustainability Day 2025

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.

Meet us at the European Coating Show 2025!

Meet us at the European Coating Show 2025!

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!

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