Klöckner Pentaplast

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• Christian Holtmann CEO
• Markus Hölzl CFO

The kp Plast GmbH, headquartered in Montabaur and their sister company Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc., based in Gordonsville, Virginia form the Klöckner Pentaplast Group, the world's three largest manufacturers of printed and finished plastic films for pharmaceutical, medical devices -, food, electronics and general purpose thermoform packaging counts and market leader in Europe and the United States. The group has annual sales of more than 1.1 billion euros. The Klöckner Pentaplast group was originally part of Klöckner-Werke AG and since 2007 has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the Blackstone Group.

Klöckner Pentaplast now owns 24 other production sites in 13 countries and employs more than 3400 people worldwide. The group has manufacturing and finishing facilities for calendering, extrusion, coating, laminating and printing film.

Company History

1965 kp Plast was founded in Montabaur in the Westerwald in the course of the resultant in the 60's plastics industry, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Klöckner -Werke AG.

In 1977 Klöckner Pentaplast with the work Gordonsville in the U.S. state of Virginia 's first production facility outside of Germany. In 1996, Klöckner Pentaplast Kalle Pentaplast in a joint venture with the rigid films Kalle GmbH, a subsidiary of Hoechst AG. The Klöckner Pentaplast Group became the world's leading manufacturer of high quality rigid films.

2001, the Klöckner Pentaplast Group was taken over by a restructuring of the Supervisory Board of Klöckner -Werke AG from Cinven and JP Morgan Partners. 2007 Klöckner Pentaplast group of Cinven & JP Morgan Partners was sold to the Blackstone Group.