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Peter Greven Group

This year is a very special one to us as we celebrate a major jubilee: 100 years of Peter Greven! A lot has changed since we were founded in 1923. We grew, managed challenges and took our chances.

Since November 2022 we are a member of Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI).

At this year’s European Base Oils & Lubricants Summit, our Head of Development Oleochemicals, Dr. Wilhelm Huber, gave a presentation on “The Evolution of Biobased Base Oils – From Natural to Synthetic”.

Few weeks ago, we started commissioning a new production line at our site in Penang, MY.

In April 2022, we started up a new esterification line at our site in Bad Münstereifel (DE). It will increase our production capacity for esters by around 50 %.

We are a supporter of Forum for Sustainable Palm Oil (FONAP) and we have supported projects of the association in the past. Therefore, we are very pleased to also support the latest project that was recently started by FONAP.

We likely announce that our technical article about sealing compatibility of ester base oils was released in the current issue of Lube magazine.

Almost 3 months have passed since the flood hit our site in Bad Münstereifel. Thanks to the strong engagement of our employees we were able to get back to normal step by step and ...

The devastating flood that hit our site in Bad Münstereifel hard is now about a month ago. A month that was dedicated to clearing up, cleaning and repairing. The major part of our area is now ...

Last Friday, North Rhine-Westphalia’s Minister of Economics Pinkwart and Rhineland-Palatinate’s Minister of Economics Schmitt visited companies ion both federal states that have been affected by the floods. Therefore, they also...

2 weeks have passed since the flooding situation at our headquarters in Bad Münstereifel. Especially during the first 7 - 10 days we were quite busy with tidying up and cleaning. The clean-up was not limited to the production...

Due to the flood situation caused by the extreme weather our we have to declare Force Majeure for our site in Bad Münstereifel.

Due to the flood situation caused by the extreme weather you can’t reach our headquarters in Bad Münstereifel by phone or email right now.

The recently published study “Impact monitoring of palm oil sustainability schemes”, commissioned by FONAP, states that certification schemes for sustainable palm oil have a positive impact on greenhouse gas emissions, the...

Selected LIGAMED® and PALMSTAR® products are now COSMOS approved and may be used for organic and natural cosmetics.