Polymer Distribution Resale Manufacturing Chemicals Trading Building Solutions

Our Activities

Polymer Distribution

Ravago Polymer Distribution is a service-oriented business, focused on distributing a broad product offering of branded plastic and rubber raw materials, including mainly third-party prime products as well as our own recycled and compounded products.

Ravago Polymer Distribution’ customers are active in e.g. the automotive sector, electrical appliances, wire and cable, and packaging. Our business is based on contracted partnerships with the best-in-class petrochemical producers, supplying a wide range of high-quality products in plastics, rubbers and chemicals.

Thanks to a broad customer base worldwide and dedicated local sales offices, the Ravago Polymer Distribution business offers a pan-regional distribution capability and technical support to our customers. Our high-performance supply chain with local storage allows for flexible and fast delivery. Our product portfolio includes commodities, engineering plastics, specialties, custom compounds, rubber and chemical products.

Resale

Resale is Ravago’s global commercial platform that uses market intelligence as a tool to respond to the fast-moving dynamics of both global and local markets. Through our network of international offices in the Americas, EMEA and Asia, Ravago Resale provides added value to suppliers and customers worldwide.

Our broad product portfolio includes plastics and synthetic rubbers. More specifically, Ravago Resale offers generic and branded prime, off-grade and recycled plastic resins and rubber products. The main focus is on all types of volume driven markets, such as extrusion and molding.

Ravago Resale provides a superior logistic service with a variety of bulk, debagging, blending and repacking facilities in different regions. The skills and market knowledge of the Ravago Resale team, combined with its focus on long-term relationships, make the resale business truly unique in the industry.

Manufacturing

Ravago Manufacturing’s activities have always been a core competence for the group. Recycling & Compounding is our largest activity. Compounding can be defined as enhancement of polymer properties by addition of extra ingredients, such as glass fiber, talc, stabilizers, colors and other additives, during the extrusion process. We provide a sustainable service to the entire industry by collecting, sorting and recycling polymer waste streams at our manufacturing plants.

Today, Ravago has 30 factories in North America, Asia, Europe and Turkey, with a total recycling and compounding capacity of over 1,000,000 metric tons. Ravago is one of the biggest EPS producers in Europe, with a production capacity of over 290 kt on an annual basis. With production plants in Germany, Greece and Turkey, Ravago Group has taken an influential position in the European, Middle Eastern and African EPS markets. Ravago is the largest recycler of rubber raw materials with an extensive portfolio encompassing elastomeric materials and synthetic rubbers. Ravago also has a leading position in TPE/TPV production with a capacity of 90,000 MT with production sites in Turkey, Germany, United States and China. Ravago TPU brands are produced in Turkey with a capacity of 10,000 MT.

Our tolling activity is an integral part of the same philosophy of providing service to external partners. Finally, micronization or pulverization consists of reducing the particle size to a certain diameter so the resin can be used for certain finished product applications that require customized feedstocks (e.g. rotomolding). With a large capacity in terms of process technology, our toll compounding services allow you to take advantage of Ravago’s Manufacturing engineering and experience with custom thermoplastics to handle material production and logistics for you.

Ravago’s own compounds portfolio covers a wide range of engineering plastics, commodity resins, elastomers and synthetic rubbers. All of our products carry their own brand names, formulations and specified applications : serving a variety of industries, Ravago’s compounds are eventually converted into car parts, electronics, construction materials and other high-quality products.

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Chemicals

Ravago Chemicals is the go-to partner for the chemical industry. We deliver high quality chemical materials and specialty additives to more than 15,000 customers. We have a global network of recognized supply partners that offer leading and innovative products in all regions. Our business is far more than distribution of materials. We provide value added service with our own production and lab facilities, our in-house expertise and continuous focus on safety and reliability. Therefore we are able to develop and provide specific formulations and solutions for our valued customers. We are a flexible organization and we value operational discretion and human modesty.

Our technically trained sales force has long-term experience. With our comprehensive product portfolio and excellent supplier relations, we strive to be a solution provider for the technical issues you may encounter. We provide tailor-made services such as mixing, blending, repacking and specialized local storage. Ravago Chemicals offers an extensive product portfolio for Industrial and Specialty Chemicals in a wide range of applications, such as paints, construction, asphalt, adhesives, textile, care chemicals (home care, industrial cleaning, personal care), polymers, water treatment and life sciences (food, feed, pharma).

Trading

Ravago’s Trading division has as mission to crystallize and manage the non-core business risk for all Ravago’s business units. Examples of activities are natural rubber hedging, sourcing of styrene for our EPS and XPS plants; supply of glycols and cyclohexane to polymer producers; management of FX , interest rate and credit risks. While Ravago Trading no longer actively trades polymers it assists the businesses in understanding the drivers of global polymer markets such as supply and demand, monomer prices, Chinese future exchanges and other relevant price drivers.

Ravago Trading will also help the distribution and resale businesses with more advanced long term pricing strategies such as monomer based or fixed. It will also source bulk chemicals for tolling purposes or further distribution.

As a service provider to the Ravago group, its suppliers and its clients Ravago Trading strives to be totally integrated with and act in sync with the whole Ravago family.

Building Solutions

Being one of the historic cornerstones of the Ravago Group, the Ravago Building Solutions (RBS) business has grown from a local Belgian activity in the sixties to a pan-European division dedicated to developing and distributing specialized building & construction solutions across European, Turkish and CIS markets.

RBS has invested in its own production activities in insulation, waterproofing and finished plastics such as foil, bags, buckets and pipes. Across a wide range of countries, RBS has its own outlets or access to the local network of dealers serving thousands of customers.

The portfolio includes products for thermal and sound insulation, waterproofing, dry construction, construction chemicals, geosynthetics, façade systems, ETICS, foils and bags. RBS benefits from strategic partnerships with leading brands that have a longstanding expertise in the building & construction industry.

We can offer our partners local intimacy combined with global scale: local access to our extensive customer network while benefiting from the Ravago Group’s scale and infrastructure in logistics and support service activities.

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