Sustainability & Social Engagement 16th February 2021 No plastics – no climate protection An interview with Sylvia Hofinger, Director General of the Association of the Austrian Chemical Industry (FCIO), on plastics, the circular...
Sustainability & Social Engagement 10th August 2020 Biodegradable materials - Learning from nature The usage of novel, biodegradable materials and compostable solutions that replace traditional polymers are strategically important for ALPLA in its...
Sustainability & Social Engagement Hard, 28th July 2020 For a sustainable future Fifteen young, junior staff recently considered the subject of sustainability at a workshop at the Hard site. General knowledge on...
Sustainability & Social Engagement Hamm/Hard, 29th October 2019 Life cycle assessment certifies outstanding results for cooking oil PET bottles Tradition brings obligation – to think ahead. At least, that applies to the cooperation between ALPLA and the German oil...
Sustainability & Social Engagement Golborne, 7th October 2019 United Kingdom: Food-grade HDPE recycling champion Every HDPE milk or juice bottle that has been produced in any ALPLA plant in the United Kingdom must consist...
Sustainability & Social Engagement 26th June 2019 Coming together on environmental protection To mark World Environment Day on the 5th of June, well over a thousand ALPLA employees around the world followed...
Sustainability & Social Engagement 19th December 2018 Climate protection: everybody can play their part ALPLA’s sites in Vorarlberg are climate-neutral within five years of the foundation of the ‘Klimaneutralitätsbündnis 2025’ (climate neutrality alliance) initiative.
Sustainability & Social Engagement Hard, 11th October 2018 Insights into the materials cycle of a PET bottle At the start of October, we welcomed a dozen journalists from Austrian and German industry magazines, as well as premium...
Sustainability & Social Engagement 2nd August 2018 Our mission: Zero Pellet Loss Plastic pellets are not necessarily a subject that the average person thinks about all too often. But for packaging manufacturers...
Sustainability & Social Engagement 5th June 2018 Redefining the impact of plastic packaging There is no denying the functionality of packaging. It protects our food, makes it last longer and enables the transportation...
Sustainability & Social Engagement 1st June 2018 Five things you can do to support recycling In our blog post ‘Recycling at ALPLA: an introduction’, we talked about what recycling is and why it is so...
Sustainability & Social Engagement 30th May 2018 Recycling at ALPLA: an introduction What does recycling mean? According to the definition of the European Parliament, recycling means any recovery operation by which waste...
Sustainability & Social Engagement 27th April 2018 Safe drinking water for Korku and Barela tribes in Khandwa In April this year, we, Tomas Hromjak and myself, combined a regional visit of ALPLA India with a trip to...
Sustainability & Social Engagement 28th March 2018 The Bottle House Project: Tackling Unemployment in Uganda In 2013, people aged 15 to 24 in sub-Saharan Africa were twice as likely to be unemployed compared to any...
