Generational change, recycling and growth: ALPLA 2018-2025

Seventh and final part of the "70 years of ALPLA" series: ALPLA accelerates its transformation between 2018 and 2025. The company loses founder Alwin Lehner, expands its management, invests heavily in recycling and pharmaceuticals, develops a new identity and strengthens its culture and organisation. At the same time, the global presence continues to grow and the family character is retained.

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"We are calling for fair competition for all packaging materials"

Karl Hagspiel, Senior Circular Economy Expert, talked in an interview with PETplanet about the recycling and sustainability strategy at ALPLA...

Packaging specialist ALPLA launches new ALPLArecycling brand

The globally active ALPLA Group has been investing in building up its own recycling capacities since 2005. The plastic packaging...

Sustainable coffee capsules - it's the certificate that counts

Home-compostable and industrially compostable – two fundamentally different terms that often mistakenly end up in the same pot. Using the...

54,000 tonnes of rPET per year: ALPLA expands recycling plant in Poland

ALPLA is expanding the PET Recycling Team (PRT) Radomsko in Poland with a third extrusion line.

A clean and sustainable option – Re-using bottles over and over again

Anyone who uses reusable plastic bottles is being environmentally friendly. After all, the bottles have a good ecological balance thanks...

People at ALPLA - Interview with Jorge Gustavo Carrion

In a world where retirement is the norm, Jorge Gustavo Carrion defies expectations as he continues to thrive in his...

ALPLA invests 60 million euros in PET recycling plant in South Africa

From 2025, ALPLA will produce around 35,000 tonnes of rPET per year at its new recycling plant in South Africa.

ALPLA supports Coca-Cola in launching India’s first 100% recycled PET Bottle for packaged drinking water

Coca-Cola India and ALPLA launch first packaged drinking water bottle to use 100% recycled PET bottles.

ALPLA UK expands through acquisition of iTEC Packaging (Mansfield)

Takeover strengthens commitment to the UK market as system provider for bottles and closures

Glass bottles: A heavy and expensive ecological burden

Producing glass requires a lot of energy and is therefore particularly affected by the high procurement prices.
In 2022, the...

ALPLA Germany focuses more on renewable energies

ALPLA and Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, sign two long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) from wind and solar...

New generation of home-compostable coffee capsules

The Blue Circle capsules are especially odour-neutral and tasteless for full coffee aroma.

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