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In view of the positive business developments, including demand for environmentally friendly packaging, the company is investing 4 million euros in automation and modernization of the plant in Apolda, Germany, and is planning a new plant at its headquarters in Wolfurt, Austria.

The demand and need for environmentally friendly packaging, driven in the majority by the food and pharmaceutical industries, continues to grow. The RATTPACK® Group, which is continuously improving the environmental inspired solutions and new production methods to continuously improve the environmental performance of packaging, is also experiencing strong growth as a result. 

Especially in times of covid and inflation, the group of companies specializing in packaging, showed a sustained high capacity utilization. In order to be able to implement the continuous development of the company innovation and growth in the long term, the RATTPACK® Group is now investing more than 4 million euros in the automation and modernization of its sites in 2023 alone. sites. 

In view of the positive business developments, a new plant in Wolfurt is also to provide additional jobs for around 100 employees and expand the headquarters. The first plans for this for this have already begun. 

By 2025, the RATTPACK® Group expects total sales of 180 million euros. The current investments are already the first steps to enable this growth and to further expand the position, leading provider of environmentally friendly packaging solutions. 

The company is proud to be able to contribute to the protection of our environment by producing sustainable packaging.

Contact:

Petra Summer

+43 660 4734470

psummer@rattpack.eu

In view of the positive business development, the company is strengthening the management team to meet the challenges of the growth phase with high targets.

In the course of the fiscal year 2022, a sales growth of more than 30% could be achieved, the growth demands a broader coverage of competences. The steadily growing family business is to be strengthened in this way.

Already in 2021, the owners Stephan and Matthias Ratt were able to find a managing director for the business units cartonboard, paper and corrugated board in Oliver Finkbeiner. Since the beginning of Since the beginning of 2023, Albert Trebo has taken over the Flexible Packaging Business Unit as Managing Director.

Both managers bring with them a wealth of expertise and several years of experience in management positions. The newly strengthened management team, including Sebastian Gächter as CFO, represents the ideal prerequisite to be able to implement the continuous further development of the company in the area of innovation and growth in the long term.

The increasing complexity requires the organization to adapt to the challenging times. With these initiated measures we are prepared for the future.

Stephan Ratt, CEO of RATTPACK® emphasizes the importance of employee training in order to achieve long-term goals. We are looking for personnel in almost all areas of the company.

Contact:

Matthias Ratt, CEO

+43 5572 22365-15

mratt@rattpack.eu

Electricity from solar energy is becoming more and more important. For this reason, RATTPACK® is investing in this technology in 2023 and significantly expanding capacity.

Hundreds of PV modules will be installed on the roofs of the industrial halls in 2023. This investment will double the capacity of the entire plant in the next 12 months and achieve a total total capacity of 1,668,000 kWh. The plant will then supply green electricity for approximately 325 households.

Project manager Stephan Fischnaller: "In order to be able to achieve the climate targets we have set, we have to take advantage of all the opportunities for expansion. possible, we will successively install photovoltaic systems on all buildings.

Careful use of all sustainable energy sources is of great importance to us as a packaging manufacturer," the PV systems alone will not be sufficient in the end, but they represent an important milestone in the overall concept. important milestone in the overall concept. This is made clear once again by Managing Director Matthias Ratt.

At the same time, we as a Group will be able to significantly reduce energy consumption by 2027 through process optimization and technology change.

Sustainable management is the basis for long-term success.

Contact:

Matthias Ratt CEO

+43 5572 22365-15

mratt@rattpack.eu

RATTPACK® is driving change in the packaging industry with innovative and sustainable packaging solutions.

Whether transparent cellulose, grass paper, mono laminates, digital printing or counterfeiting concepts with holograms. The packaging industry is currently changing at an unprecedented pace. This change brings great opportunities but also risks. "Actively shaping the future is what counts. Waiting is not the solution", are the RATTPACK® managing directors Stephan and Matthias Ratt are convinced.

Ready for change. A world without packaging is utopian and unrealisable. Packaging fulfils many important tasks. Protection, storage and transport, to name just the primary functions. The RATTPACK® Group has therefore made it its business to actively drive the transformation of packaging. One of the major goals is to package products products in an environmentally friendly way. Therefore, the company follows the Cradle to Cradle approach in all product areas and is constantly improving the recyclability of its packaging. "Over the past ten years, raw materials have evolved from waste products to valuable materials, and this development is far from over," says Stephan Ratt.

Experiments welcome. The focus in the innovation process at RATTPACK ® is on the sustainable development of the products. "It is crucial to recognise technological changes at an early stage and to derive the potential for future innovations from them. It is of no use to anyone if the sustainable development ends up generating a multiple of process waste and becomes a waste at this point", Matthias Ratt explains. After all, in the field of packaging, sustainability means above all that concepts are developed according to the motto "reduced-to-the-max". They must be expandable and adaptable to changing requirements with other raw materials.

Enabling freedom. To be able to develop innovation together, the company makes resources available to its customers. With its own laboratory, RATTPACK® has an a USP in the innovation process that should not be underestimated. "The decisive factor here is that we can react quickly," emphasises Matthias Ratt. "After all, it can happen that topics can overflow from one day to the next. Then you're glad if you can carry out analyses and tests in-house." Innovations are actively being developed in the following business areas business areas: Flexible packaging, paper products, cardboard packaging, offset-laminated corrugated board and, not to be forgotten, in the service sector. "Here in particular we are starting with an exciting digital project," says Stephan Ratt. "Already established is the online print data management, which customers like to use. This service optimises the interfaces from the design process to print approval." And the advantages are obvious: multiple approvals and proofing processes are optimally designed. "For small and large a very exciting topic again and again for small and large companies."

Question and optimise. In recent years, the RATTPACK® Group has grown at an above-average rate. The Covid months were used to strengthen and recharge our to recharge their batteries. "Now it's a matter of coming into the post-Covid period stronger," say the two managing directors unanimously. At the ages of 46 and 49, Stephan and Matthias Ratt are in the middle are in the middle of life and are looking forward to many more exciting projects with their clients and staff. They have been at the helm of the company for more than two decades. What they are particularly pleased about: They are getting a small step closer to their goal of producing 100 per cent sustainable packaging every day. "Thanks to our decades of experience, we are able to support our support our customers accordingly. And we also question if we come across something that is not in the interest of the environment. As a solution-oriented company, we try to optimise optimisations in terms of sustainability in consultation with the customer."

Flexible and resilient. The company, headquartered in Wolfurt, currently employs more than 500 people. And: Once you are a "RATTIANER", in most cases you remains one in most cases. This development makes the two managing directors happy and also a little proud. After all, satisfied employees speak for the company and its culture. Wherever possible, management positions are filled organically, with specialists who understand the core business of RATTPACK® from the ground up. New Building new customer relationships has been difficult due to the Covid and associated raw material developments of recent months. "From 2022 onwards, however, there should once again be open doors in the market again." And thus RATTPACK® can continue to pursue its indirect growth strategy. Stephan Ratt: "We create business areas and also allow them to shrink again. shrink again. This keeps the organisation flexible and resilient. In this way, we can adapt to market developments more quickly."