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GLOBAL RECYCLING DAY 2025 – ALPLA milestones

With more than 30 years of experience in recycling and its own recycling plants worldwide, the ALPLA Group is helping...

ALPLA launches HDPE recycling in Brazil

Packaging and recycling specialist ALPLA becomes majority shareholder in Clean Bottle

Sustainable yogurt pots: rPET makes it possible

Together with partners ALPLA is realising thin-walled cups made from recycled PET material for dairy products.

ALPLA opens state-of-the-art recycling plant in South Africa

Production plant to supply up to 35,000 tonnes of recycled PET material per year from 2025

ALPLA on the right track with recycling

As a signatory of the Global Commitment (GC), ALPLA has committed itself to a total of six goals. The most...

ALPLA joins forces with Re-Purpose

Strategic partnership with Re-Purpose to strengthen the plastics cycle in South Africa

Werner & Mertz and ALPLA create recycling innovations

Werner & Mertz has been committed to climate and environmental protection for many years and works closely with ALPLA on...

People at ALPLA: Interview with Gustavo Aguilar

Gustavo Aguilar (49) was as Production Manager significantly involved in setting up and operating the recycling plant in Toluca, Mexico...

GLOBAL RECYCLING DAY 2024 – ALPLA MILESTONES

The ALPLA Group has been involved in recycling plastic and converting it into new packaging for over 30 years. Global...

Disposing of waste and gaining energy

At the end of 2023, around 170 countries discussed a global agreement to combat plastic waste at the UN Environment...

Thermal recovery - energy instead of waste

As of 1 January 2024, not just the sun, wind and water, but also waste will be considered a renewable...

Recycled plastic reduces carbon consumption by up to 87 per cent

Recycling works: Calculation of the product carbon footprint of rPET and rHDPE by the independent consultancy c7-consult provides new data...

ALPLA joins other companies to close the big bag loop

The PET Recycling Team (PRT) as part of ALPLA Group, LC Packaging, Starlinger and Velebit Recycling recently reported a significant...

Plastic with collector’s value

By paying for the receipt of PET bottles, ALPLA is supporting the collection of used beverage packaging in Mexico. Even...

Launch of Thailand's first beverage bottles made from 100% recycled PET

Milestone at ENVICCO: The joint venture between ALPLA and PTT Global Chemical (GC) introduces Thailand's first food-grade rPET to the...

"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...

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.

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 MILESTONES – GLOBAL RECYCLING DAY 2023

ALPLA has been involved in the recycling of plastic and the processing of the recycled material into new packaging for...

Start of production at PET Recycling Team Targu Mures

Joint venture in Romania supplies 18,000 tonnes of recycled plastic per year.

ALPLA and PTT Global Chemical realise Thailand's largest plastics recycling plant equipped with state-of-the-art technology

Start of production at the ENVICCO joint venture in Rayong province.

‘Expediting the transformation to a circular economy for all polyolefins.’

Petya Todorova spoke to ALPLA about PCEP’s primary objectives, what the association has achieved to date and what its next...

Pril packaging now with 50 per cent recycled material from yellow bag waste

Another milestone in relation to sustainable packaging: The bottle bodies produced in Germany for the dishwashing detergent Pril will now...

Recycled HDPE with an excellent carbon footprint

Recycled HDPE (rHDPE) from the Spanish recycling plants Suminco in Montcada i Reixac and in Venta de Baños, which belong...

ALPLA supports recycling programme in Nepal

The ALPLA Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, has been supporting the non-profit organisation NIDISI since the end...

Recyclability is the prerequisite for closed-loop suitability

Fabrizio di Gregorio is the Technical Director of Plastics Recyclers Europe, an organisation based in Brussels which represents the interests...

ALPLA milestones – Global Recycling Day 2022

ALPLA has been involved in the recycling of plastic and the processing of the recycled material into new packaging for...

ALPLA Group significantly expands its PET recycling capacity in Germany

ALPLA acquires Texplast and the joint venture PET Recycling Team Wolfen in Germany.

Bernd Wachter is the new corporate director of Circular Economy & Recycling in Asia

Bernd Wachter is taking on the newly created position of corporate director of Circular Economy & Recycling in Asia with...

PET becoming a valuable raw material in Mexico

Waste recycling rates tend to be low in emerging countries. These lack the collection systems needed to establish a circular...

First stone laid for PET recycling plant in the south-east of Mexico

Joint venture between ALPLA and Coca-Cola FEMSA to boost the circular economy.

ALPLA puts HDPE recycling plant in Mexico into operation

ALPLA has opened a new plant for HDPE plastic recycling in Toluca, Mexico.

ALPLA acquires German PET recycler

ALPLA is acquiring BTB PET-Recycling based in Bad Salzuflen. The company turns PET bottles into recycled material which is then...

#PLASTICPACKAGING: Dishwashing gel bottles made of 100 per cent recyclate for Henkel

Together with Henkel, ALPLA has developed a new recyclable packaging concept for the Düsseldorf manufacturer’s Somat gel products. The dishwashing...

ALPLA, Ecohelp and UPT launch joint PET recycling operations in Romania

ALPLA is investing in the construction of a recycling plant in Targu Mures, Romania as part of a joint venture...

Jana mineral water in a 100 per cent rPET bottle

Jana mineral water made by the Croatian producer Jamnica is now available in a bottle made entirely of recycled PET...

‘Green to green’ for CO2 savings of up to 90 per cent

In cooperation with ALPLA, the Slovenian mineral water company Donat replaced its PET and glass packaging entirely with 100 per...

Global Recycling Day 2021 - ALPLA Milestones

Recycling is an essential part of ALPLA's sustainability strategy. On Global Recycling Day 2021 we look back on the groundbreaking...

ALPLA UK to focus on regional PET recyclate

ALPLA UK souces rPET plastic pellets from British waste management company Biffa. The cooperation will boost the local circular economy.

ALPLA Group: 50 million euros a year for recycling

The ALPLA Group, a world leader in the development, production and recycling of plastic packaging, is to invest up to...

ALPLA expediting a bottle cycle in Italy

The global manufacturer of plastic packaging and recycling specialist, the ALPLA Group, is investing more than five million euros in...

ALPLA presents climate-neutral recycling process for PET

The ALPLA Group, global manufacturer of plastic packaging and recycling specialist, presents a climate-neutral recycling process for PET.

ALPLA builds HDPE recycling plant in Mexico

ALPLA is building a plant in Mexico for recycling HDPE. It will have an annual capacity of 15,000 tonnes of...

ALPLA expands PET recycling plant in Poland

A new rPET extrusion system will be going into operationin early May 2020 at the recycling plant PET Recycling Team...