Color follows Function

PHILOSOPHY AND MISSION STATEMENT OF THE TREFFERT CORPORATE GROUP

For more than 90 years the Treffert corporate group has stood for expertise and vision in the field of plastics processing. Since being founded by Heinrich Treffert Sr. as an importer and exporter of raw materials and adjuvants for the rubber, plastics, paint and chemical industry, the company has offered individual, expert advice. Since then, plastics processors from a wide variety of industries link the name Treffert with know-how, high-level quality and continuous innovation.

With the start of master batch production more than 40 years ago, the company has especially established itself among the experienced European providers of dyes, additive batches and compounds. The motto “color follows function” underscores the corporate ideal, which is focused on innovation today as much as it was then.

The Core Values of our Daily Work

Passion

Our drive comes from ideas and enthusiasm for solutions that are reasonable for our customers and promise success both now and in the future. We focus on human needs. Every single one of our employees fulfils his daily tasks with passion, joy and dedication. We approach complex demands in a relaxed, uncomplicated way and realise them through reflection, focus, attention to detail and flexibility. Collaboration in our company is characterised by individuality with a powerful sense of community. On the way to a customised product, we work together with an eye on the result until we get the solution that meets your requirements and needs to your 100% satisfaction.

Quality and Skill

As experts in individualised industry solutions, we product for local, specialised markets at the highest level of quality. The experiences from our more than 90 year history as a company provide a basis for our know-how and our ability to innovate. We advise and guide from product development to technical production. Qualified employees develop innovative products integrating the newest scientific insights. We stand by our skill and the quality of our products personally with our own name. Precise, process-compatible and just in time, we meet especially high demands on performance.

Sustainability

Maintaining perspective and developing, acting with an eye on the future, accepting responsibility and actively shaping the future…as a corporate group we are committed to ecological and social principles. We accept responsibility for the mutual integration of economy, society and environmental conservation. Conserving resources, health and generational justice receive our particular attention. The development of new technologies, processes and products is the logical consequence of this commitment. Based on our multi-generational company history, we place a special value on our employees and their achievements, in that we show them individual respect, promote them and offer opportunities for professional development.

Trusting Relationships

We deal with our customers, suppliers and business partners at eye level. We respect each other. Commitment is the Alpha and Omega of our dealings with each other. We mean what we say. We seek personal dialogue and express our interest and trust. We listen carefully in order to ask the right questions and understand our interlocutors. We express ourselves clearly and unequivocally, so that we are understood immediately. In this empathetic manner, we establish trusting relationships with everyone who is associated with our company. Our customers appreciate it.

Honesty

We are as we are: down-to-earth. We don’t exaggerate. We say things as they are. And we do what we say we will. We speak with each other openly, saying what we expect from each other and what we really think. This honest, open communication creates trust and continuity. Honesty is the core of our loyalty and reliability, both in-house and to the outside world. Focus on our key values nurtures our progress.

Openness

We look beyond the horizon, detect trends, exactly analyse needs and tasks and realise individual solutions– these are key elements of our daily work. We see new methods and new possibilities as our chance for innovation. For this reason we keep our eyes on the future, in every direction. Our innovative thinking becomes a source of inspiration to our customers as well as our business partners and colleagues in the industry. We create innovations that secure our advantages and at the same time continue our company’s traditions.

Treffert does not use Raw Materials from Regions in Conflict

The so-called conflict minerals such as coltan, cassiterite, wolframite as well as the substances tantalum, tin, gold, wolfram and cobalt are not used as raw materials components in the manufacture of the products that we supply.

When selecting raw materials for the articles we are to manufacture, we completely exclude the conflict minerals mentioned above. Our products meet the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act, which obligate companies to refrain from using raw materials from regions in conflict.