Headquartered in Luxembourg, with other corporate offices in London UK, Montabaur Germany, and Gordonsville, Virginia, USA, kp has a total of 31 facilities in 18 countries, with ca.

With around €2 billion in revenues annually, the global leader[citation needed] in recycled content products and high barrier protective packaging operates 2 divisions: (1) Pharma, Health & Protection and Durables (PHD); (2) Food Packaging (FP); servicing a wide variety of customers in the food-, pharmaceutical-, medical device- and consumer packaging sectors, as well as films for labels, cards, printing and construction industries.

Klöckner Pentaplast was originally founded in 1965 as a subsidiary of Klöckner-Werke AG in Montabaur, Germany, in the course of the establishment of the plastics industry in the 1960s.

Its first production facility outside Germany was opened in 1979 in Gordonsville, Virginia, United States.

In June 2012, a group of investors under the leadership of Strategic Value Partners (SVP) acquired Klöckner Pentaplast from Blackstone.