Household & Consumer Goods
From kitchen appliances to suitcases and power tools: today’s everyday consumer goods consist largely of engineering plastics and rubber materials. Shorter product cycles, increasing design demands, online retail with its own requirements for transport durability, and growing pressure for greater sustainability are presenting manufacturers with new material challenges. Biesterfeld supplies manufacturers of household appliances, furniture, leisure goods and consumer goods with the polymers, additives and rubber products used to make these items.
Our strengths
Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs
As your regulatory partner, we guide you through the entire compliance process. Whether it’s compliance, sustainability or regulatory matters – we advise you on legal requirements and support you in achieving your goals.
Application laboratories
In our application laboratories, we carry out tests and analyses for our clients. This service is available throughout Europe and ranges from formulation development to product testing.
Global network
As an international company, we have an extensive logistics network and a particularly broad supplier base. Combined with our extensive portfolio, this enables us to cover the entire production chain for our customers.
Our Portfolio
Our portfolio covers a wide range of applications: furniture and woodworking, garden products, office supplies, sanitary ware, and sports and leisure products. For household appliances, we supply materials for large and small appliances (white goods) as well as for power tools, alongside PU soft and rigid foam systems, materials for baby and children’s products, security and alarm systems, shoe soles and toys.
Our additives and rubber products also support assembly and maintenance applications throughout the entire value chain. Design, feel and functionality are in direct competition for the attention of end customers when it comes to consumer goods – the right choice of material often determines a product’s market success. At the same time, retailers and legislators are increasingly demanding recycled content, verified material safety – for example, for children’s products and food contact in kitchen appliances – as well as traceable, transparent supply chains right back to the raw materials.
We provide support with material testing, sample components and the selection of materials that comply with standards for target markets with varying safety requirements. Regional warehousing and flexible delivery quantities – from prototypes to series production – help our customers keep product cycles short and react quickly to market trends.
We support our customers in selecting materials, addressing questions regarding processability, colouring and durability, as well as integrating recycled materials and more sustainable alternatives without compromising on design or function. Global sourcing and local technical advice ensure that good product ideas are turned into reliably manufacturable, high-quality consumer goods.