Distribution
Together with our own products FM Plastics distributes chemicals, polymers and compounds via our own proprietary organisation and network based both in Europe and in our frontier markets. Active in all European countries and in approximately 30 early emerging economies in a wide range of industries; Agriculture, Automotive, Construction, Consumer goods, Medical, Natural Resources, Packaging and Petrochemical. In addition to local sales and support staff we manage storage and clearing facilities in all our active markets.
In Europe
Our European sales & distribution is managed from the Netherlands for the entire continent near three of Europe’s top five harbours in volume; Rotterdam, Antwerp and Amsterdam and close to Schiphol airport one of the largest passenger and cargo hubs in the EU. We manage import and distribution from centrally located warehousing facilities. We can provide our partners with all logistical, administrative and financial services required for effective Pan-European distribution.
For the European market we specialize in bulk commodities originating from our emerging markets clients especially polymers and related products. We supply more complex products from the 120.000 mt/pa compounding facilities at our disposal. For both categories we provided thorough after sales service.
Our multi-lingual staff provides customer and technical support in five major European languages. In addition to distribution and customer service our sales staff can act as your own and actively seeks out new and existing customers that may benefit from your products.
In Frontier Markets
Spread across thirty nations with concentrations in regional hubs FM Plastics including joint ventures and subsidiaries employ over 35 staff members locally and have approximately triple that number in affiliated agents deployed remotely for sales and after sales services. For our larger markets we have nation wide distribution networks with local sales agents in all major cities and provinces and have their own sales engineers for technical sales support of the main products and industries.
The communication lines to our own production facilities are short and our overall organisation flat and decentralized. Where we have distribution agreements with producers we aim to have our sales engineers trained at the partners facilities in the home country and language this to also ensure short lines with the producers technical departments allowing us to guarantee excellent local support.
We have storage and clearing facilities in all our active markets supported by quality assurance and research facilities from our major markets. Our distribution network operates with extensive compliance systems for medical, environmental, legal and control issues. A vast network of local service providers such as lawyers, accountants, clearing agents and relations with local government institutions ensures smooth compliant operations and the ability to quickly act decisively when incidents occur.