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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Caps with added value: sustainable packaging solutions

The ALPLA plant in Föritztal, Germany, specialises in caps. Since 2020, it has been developing new
products too. We offer...

Achieving sustainability goals with plastics

If plastic packaging were to be completely dispensed with in the food sector, CO2 emissions would be 2.7 times higher...

People at ALPLA: Interview with Pia Rhomberg

Pia Rhomberg joined ALPLA last year. The young Vorarlberg local was hired as a trainee to assist with the company’s...

EU Plastic levy proves not so fantastic: proposals for a fair and sustainable approach

The contribution of the EU Plastic levy is calculated based on quantities of unrecycled plastic packaging. Poorly considered implementation of...

Packaging specialist ALPLA’s pharma division growing

Further expansion of ALPLApharma business division due to acquisition of Polish company APON.

Challenges ahead for the beverage industry

EU member states are required to ensure by July 2024 that single-use plastic beverage bottles are only placed on the...

People at ALPLA - Interview with Patsy Chitwood

ALPLA started its first operations in North America about twenty years ago. Patsy Chitwood has been with ALPLA almost since...

ALPLA opens innovative design centre STUDIOa in Hard

The STUDIOa design centre facilitates swift, co-creative development of new packaging types.

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...

Using rPET in thin-wall injection moulding

At K 2022, ALPLA and its partners will present thin-wall containers that can be manufactured out of standard PET directly...

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 and Vöslauer reduce carbon footprint with returnable PET

Reintroduction of the returnable PET bottle to the Austrian market.

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