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08.10.2025 - Mainz - Company-News

Sustainability Management at Werner & Mertz now more comprehensive!

For more than 20 years, the production site in Mainz has been validated against EMAS criteria, the world’s most demanding certification for environmental management systems. Now the family-owned business is the first industrial  company ever to undergo an additional audit based on the We Impact standard, which puts the focus on social and governance aspects in operational processes.

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24.09.2025 - Mainz - Tana-Chemie

Sustainable packaging winner: Switch is Green Packaging Star 2025!

Werner & Mertz Professional received the Green Packaging Star Award for its innovative dosing and refill system Switch. Switch’s innovative and unique combination of bottle and dosing cap with the corresponding refill pouch represents a comprehensive and revolutionary solution for the entire professional cleaning industry.

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17.07.2025 - Mainz - Company-News

Change in Management at Werner & Mertz

Sales professional and industry expert Martin Hötzel has been the managing director of the Werner & Mertz subsidiary Erdal-Rex GmbH since 1 July. In this position he assumes responsibility for the cleaning products manufacturer’s German business in consumer brands, including the trusted brands Frosch, emsal and Erdal.

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26.06.2025 - Mainz - Company-News

Robert Habeck congratulates Werner & Mertz on one billion bottles of 100 percent Post-Consumer Recyclate

On 23 June the counter jumped to one billion. That’s the number of rPET bottles made of 100 percent used plastic (Post-Consumer Recyclate) Werner & Mertz has brought to market since the Recyclate Initiative was founded  in 2012. The world record was celebrated by the Mainz manufacturer of cleaning products with 300 guests on site and more than 70,000 viewers via livestream. Highlight of the Frosch event: Werner & Mertz owner Reinhard Schneider spoke about sustainable business with the former Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck in the talk show Die Zuversichtlichen. 

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23.06.2025 - Mainz - Company-News

Werner & Mertz sets a world record: one billion bottles of 100 percent Post-Consumer Recyclate!

Another milestone: Effective immediately, Werner & Mertz will begin converting the rPET bottles for the Frosch brand to 100 percent recyclate from the Yellow Bag! With the achievements of its initiative, Werner & Mertz demonstrates that it is possible to offer effective, verifiably resource-sparing products which do not demand that consumers give up quality, performance or sensory experience.

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18.06.2025 - Mainz - Company-News

Frosch shows: Nothing is as strong as Nature itself!

Pan-European media campaign for the well-known trusted brand from Mainz links quality and ecology. Quality encompasses the formulas’ cleaning performance, gentleness to skin, the value preservation of materials and the protection of natural resources.

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