Plastic saves time in the household

What if we had to completely do without plastic in the home? Part 7 of our series "A world without plastic" is dedicated to our own four walls.

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‘Lightweighting’: a Diet for Packaging

Packaging plays an important role in the goods we use in our daily lives. For example, it facilitates the transport...

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...

The ALPLA Story: From Christmas Trees to the First Big Order

Why did two young men from the Vorarlberg region in Austria decide to start a packaging business? Why packaging? How...

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...

PET Recycling Team further improves carbon footprint of rPET

PET pellets from post-consumer drink bottles provided by PET Recycling Team GmbH, a subsidiary of ALPLA, result in greenhouse gas...

Implementing the dual education system: the success, the challenges and the future

The shortage of skilled labour is an issue that companies all around the world have to face. There are, of...

Over a decade in China

ALPLA is celebratings its 11th anniversary in China this month. We want to take this opportunity to look back over...

ALPLA builds two new production sites in the USA

The international plastics processor ALPLA has been active in the United States since 2001. In 2018, two new sites will...

Study confirms the excellent carbon footprint of recycled PET

Recycled PET (rPET) from PET Recycling Team GmbH – a wholly owned subsidiary of ALPLA based in Wöllersdorf/Lower Austria –...

Biggest acquisition in the history of the company

ALPLA, a leading provider of plastic packaging worldwide, has bought an African market leader in the form of Boxmore Packaging...

ALPLA grows through acquisition in Italy

ALPLA, a leading global provider of plastic packaging, has acquired a 100 per cent stake in the Italian company Propack...

ALPLA expands its portfolio in the United States through new acquisition

ALPLA, a leading global provider of plastic packaging, has acquired the West Bend (Wisconsin/US), bottle manufacturing plant from Gehl Foods...