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Recyclable product innovation with twistlock function

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A world without plastics? Wrong question!

Images of mountains of plastic waste polarise the debate regarding how to solve the problem. Calls are frequently made for...

ALPLA expanding its manufacturing technology for OTC packaging

ALPLApharma is expanding its OTC container production capacities. In addition to the IBM technology it will henceforth also offer its...

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...