Corporate publishing

RKW Sustainability Report 2023 and 2024

Client:

RKW SE

Industry:

Polyolefin Films

Partnership:

Since 2024

Since 2017, RKW SE has published a sustainability report (SR) every year. Initially, it was distributed in printed form to interested customers, before moving to an online version with a PDF download option on the website in 2021. Since 2023, only a PDF version has been provided.

For the exclusively online-published sustainability report, we developed the design concept and produced the publication in both German and English.

The report highlights RKW’s clear positioning as a company strongly committed to sustainable development and focused on its corporate social responsibility. It builds trust with customers, employees, and the public, while sending positive signals to both internal and external stakeholders.

The client placed particular emphasis on the technical content and requested a more factual and minimal design. We believe this can also be implemented in a very appealing way.

With our expertise in sustainability communication, we are supporting RKW SE on its path toward mandatory reporting under CSRD/ESRS, which will become binding for the company with the report for the year 2025 (published in 2026).

The 2024 sustainability report, which we are currently implementing together, already takes the recommended standards into account and represents an important step toward fulfilling the comprehensive CSRD reporting requirements for 2025.

Sustainability

Client

The RKW Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of film solutions based on polyolefins. The company produces films, nonwovens, and nets for applications in the fields of hygiene, flexible packaging, industrial uses, as well as agriculture and horticulture. These can be further processed into a wide range of products, including as components — from robust cement sacks to breathable, ultra-thin baby diapers.

As an independent family-owned company headquartered in Germany, RKW employs around 2,800 people and operates internationally with a total of 17 sites in Germany, Belgium, Finland, France, Sweden, the USA, and Vietnam.

The high quality and reliability of its products are the result of decades of experience and technical expertise in film extrusion and product finishing, such as compounding, stretching, embossing, perforating, and printing. The knowledge RKW has built and continuously expanded over more than 65 years is passed on to customers and business partners in the form of innovative, customized product solutions and services.

Task

In its sustainability goals, RKW has committed to continuously reducing the environmental footprint of its products and production processes. The company focuses on downgauging (thickness reduction), recycling, and the use of recycled or bio-based materials. The share of recycled materials is to be further increased wherever this is economically and ecologically feasible.

Our task was and continues to be to realize the sustainability report online in PDF format and make it available.

Services:

  • Development of the design concept
  • Editorial work on text and visuals
  • Publication in German and English
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Angela Kunwald Managing Director at Ruess International

Angela Kunwald

Managing Director