Rank #1366
Frank Blase
Net worth $3.2B
Plastics · Germany
- Born
- Dec 19, 1959
- Age
- 66
- Source
- Plastics
- Residence
- Bergisch Gladbach
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Frank Blase runs the plastics manufacturer igus, which his father, Günter Blasé, founded in a garage in 1964.
- Igus is the global leader in high-performance plastics for moving applications and has sales of more than 1 billion euros.
- Blasé owns 97% of the business, his brother Carsten Blase, who lives in the USA, owns 3%.
- Blase's Igus developed the world's first bike made from plastic in 2024.
- When his father celebrated his 90th birthday in 2021, Blasé rebuilt the founding garage of 1964 with all original parts.