From Hamburg merchant to global player

Karl Detlef Feddersen founded K.D. Feddersen & Co. in 1949 to trade in chemical products. The following year he acquired Norddeutsche Ueberseegesellschaft in Hamburg, a trading company for technical products. He recognised the signs of the times and added plastics to the portfolio in 1955, a material that was still quite new at that time. In 1968 he signed a distribution contract with the renowned HOECHST AG. In 1979, Voß Edelstahlhandel GmbH was added as a further business segment. It has central to the success of company group since then.

In 2009, FEDDEM GmbH & Co. KG is founded in Sinzig: Our expert for master-class extruders and compounding systems. The following year, AKRO Engineering Plastics Co., Ltd. moves into a new production facility in Wujiang, Suzhou, China. What is special: We ensure an identical production concept at all locations. In other words, uniform production conditions for consistently high-quality products.

In the 2010s, we founded like there was no tomorrow: K.D. Feddersen Vietnam Co., Ltd. in 2012, Vienna-based K.D. Federsen CEE GmbH in 2013, São Paulo-based AKRO-PLASTIC do Brasil Comércio de Polímeros de Desempenho Ltda. in 2014. In 2013, the Feddersen Group added toll compounding to its portfolio with the acquisition of PolyComp GmbH.

In 2016 K.D. Feddersen Singapore Pte. Ltd. is founded. In the same year, the Feddersen Group acquires the Swedish Forvema AB and thus enters into the Northern European plastics machinery market. In 2017 and 2018, two more companies are founded: K.D. Feddersen (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and K.D. Feddersen Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.