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50g wine bottle cuts carbon emissions by 50%

Safe, affordable, and sustainable: plastic packaging specialist ALPLA is launching a recyclable wine bottle made of PET. The bottle weighs approximately only an eighth of a glass bottle, reduces the carbon footprint by up to 50 per cent and allows for price savings of up to 30 per cent.

08 May 24

ALPLA Develops Unique Paint Bucket for DIY Enthusiasts and Professionals

With its multifunctional Compaintion paint bucket, ALPLA has developed a practical and safe combined solution featuring a strap, a magnetic brush holder and a roll-off grid.

07 Feb 23

ALPLA's Canupak Reduces Carbon Emissions by Around 71 Percent

With its Canupak beauty care packaging, ALPLA has developed a carbon-optimised prototype solution that causes around 71 percent fewer carbon emissions.

30 Jan 23

ALPLA and PTT Global Chemical Realise Thailand's Largest Plastics Recycling Plant Equipped With State-of-the-Art Technology

Following 18 months of construction and installation, the ALPLA Group and PTT Global Chemical are opening the state-of-the-art ENVICCO food-grade recycling plant for bottle-to-bottle applications in Thailand.

14 Sep 22

Alpla ensures Pril packaging will work with 50% recycled material from yellow bag waste

The bottle bodies produced in Germany for the dishwashing detergent Pril will now be produced from 50% recycled material from yellow bag waste.

21 Jun 22

ALPLA and Vöslauer reduce carbon footprint with returnable PET

ALPLA Group has developed a new returnable PET bottle together with Vöslauer, Austria’s leading company in the mineral water market. The sustainable bottle reduces carbon emissions by around 30 per cent and bottle weight by almost 90 per cent .

02 May 22

ALPLA Group significantly expands its PET recycling capacity in Germany

The ALPLA Group has become one of the largest PET recycling companies in Germany with the acquisition of the recycling company explast from the FROMM Group and all of its shares in the joint venture PET Recycling Team Wolfen.

07 Mar 22

ALPLA acquires packaging manufacturer Wolf Plastics

The ALPLA Group is purchasing the Wolf Plastics Group to expand its product portfolio and sees growth potential in Central and South-Eastern Europe. In acquiring all the shares in the packaging manufacturer Wolf Plastics Group based in Kammern, Austria, ALPLA intends to use the company’s expertise, in particular in the manufacture of plastic buckets and canisters, to expand its product portfolio.

20 Aug 21

ALPLA backs biodegradable materials

With its acquisition of a significant minority stake in the Slovak company Panara a.s., the ALPLA Group is stepping up its activities in the research field of alternative, sustainable raw materials for packaging. Panara is focusing on the development of fully bio-based and biodegradable plastics.

22 Jul 21

ALPLA's Blue Circle packaging provides new label for biodegradable products

The ALPLA Group, a global packaging producer and specialist in recycling, is consolidating its developments in relation to biodegradable packaging solutions under its new Blue Circle Packaging label. Home-compostable coffee capsules are the first product available on the market.

12 Jul 21

Roll-up packaging saves up to 50% material

A new HDPE bottle developed in cooperation with Beiersdorf for its NIVEA brand is good for the environment in a number of ways. Its manufacture requires approximately 50 per cent less material than a comparable standard packaging type. In addition, it can be rolled up much like a tube, allowing it to be completely emptied.

25 Mar 21

ALPLA presents innovative refill packaging

With NOW, ALPLA is presenting an ideal packaging solution for concentrated cleaning chemicals. Alongside the numerous environmental benefits, it also offers special added value: it is safe, easy and fun for consumers to use.

02 Sep 20

ALPLA's aerosol in a PET bottle

This PET packaging solution for aerosols combines benefits for consumers and for the environment. It is suitable for a variety of applications, from deodorants to sunscreens and even room fragrances.

21 Jul 20

ALPLA to buy plant in Spain

ALPLA, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, is acquiring Bopla S.A. as part of an asset deal. ALPLA intends to use the Spanish company’s expertise in the area of single-stage manufacturing technologies to expand its own product portfolio.

29 May 20

ALPLA and KH present innovative reusable PET bottle

ALPLA has further developed a 1-litre reusable PET bottle together with KHS, the specialist for bottling and packaging systems. The refillable bottle weighs up to ten grams less than the standard bottles that are currently available and can include recycled materials too.

16 Mar 20

ALPLA moves into HDPE recycling

ALPLA, the global manufacturer of plastic packaging solutions, is further expanding its recycling activities – it is moving into polyolefin recycling with its acquisition of two companies based in Spain. With two of its own PET recycling plants in Austria and Poland, and joint ventures in Mexico and Germany, ALPLA has long been an established partner in the field of PET recycling

16 Dec 19

ALPLA's milk bottles for NÖM made of 100 per cent rPET

ALPLA and NÖM are setting new benchmarks in environmentally friendly packaging for milk products. The new NÖM milk bottle is made entirely of recycled PET and is fully recyclable.

20 Nov 19

Home-compostable coffee capsule from ALPLA and Golden Compound

Coffee is a pleasure. If only there wasn’t that rubbish left over at the end. One solution for this is a special capsule produced and distributed worldwide by ALPLA. It’s made from the material Golden Compound green, from German material developer and manufacturer Golden Compound.

30 Sep 19

Mineral water bottles can be made entirely of rPET, as demonstrated by Vöslauer

With a more than 40 per cent share of the market, Vöslauer is Austria’s number one mineral water. The preforms for Vöslauer’s PET mineral water bottles are produced at the ALPLA plant in Steinabrückl, Lower Austria.

08 Aug 19

ALPLA wants to reduce its carbon footprint by 10 per cent by 2022

As an innovation leader, ALPLA can also point to several flagship initiatives in the area of product development: from bottles made entirely of recyclate and the home-compostable coffee capsule to the Simple One, a HDPE bottle that is up to 60 per cent lighter than standard bottles. From 2022, the company wants to bring at least three innovations to the market each year.

17 Jul 19

ALPLA Caribe and Fortiflex form strategic alliance

ALPLA Caribe and Fortiflex Inc. signed a strategic alliance back in 2018, thereby creating a contractual basis for an interim solution. The aim is for them to establish themselves as the preferred packaging producer in the Caribbean and in Central America.

07 Jun 19

New Alpla study quantifies environmental impacts of packaging

c7-consult tested the environmental impacts of the packaging of various products typical to the Austrian market ranging from beverages to detergents, considering everything from the contribution they make to climate change to their water consumption. The assessments were commissioned by ALPLA. The study attests to the positive contribution that recycling makes to environmental footprints.

10 Apr 19

Alpla and BillerudKorsnäs to join forces to pioneer paper bottles for a sustainable future

Plastic packaging solutions provider ALPLA and paper packaging materials and solutions provider BillerudKorsnäs have announced that they will embark on a joint venture in the Danish paper bottle company ecoXpac. When the transaction has been completed, ALPLA and BillerudKorsnäs will own equal parts of ecoXpac.

04 Apr 19

ALPLA and FROMM found joint venture, PET Recycling Team Wolfen GmbH

ALPLA and FROMM are founding a joint venture, PET Recycling Team Wolfen GmbH, the aim of which is to recycle the PET bottles in the recyclables collected from households in Germany. The collaboration partners are investing €7 million in sorting and processing systems at the Texplast facility in Wolfen.

28 Mar 19

ALPLA completes takeover of Zamil ALPLA

The packaging solutions specialist ALPLA, based in Austria, has completed a 100 per cent takeover of Zamil ALPLA. ALPLA and Zamil founded a joint venture in 2008, of which ALPLA previously held a 49 per cent share.

13 Feb 19

First coffee capsule compostable at home

In cooperation with Golden Compound, the internationally active packaging manufacturer ALPLA is bringing a world first onto the market: a biodegradable coffee capsule that consumers can dispose of in their home compost.

15 Oct 18

Alpla expands its portfolio in the United States through new acquisition

Alpla has acquired the West Bend (Wisconsin/US), bottle manufacturing plant from Gehl Foods.

12 Jun 17

ALPLA to appear at pharmaceutical trade fair for the first time

ALPLA will take part in CPhI Istanbul from 8 to 10 March. As part of this international trade fair for the pharmaceutical industry, ALPLA will showcase itself as a supplier of standard packaging for pharmaceutical products and generic drugs for the first time.

01 Mar 17

ALPLA produces bottles using recycled HDPE material for Henkel

For many years, recycling has been a key issue for ALPLA, the world’s leading specialist in plastic packaging. The Austrian company cooperated with Henkel over the course of two years on the production of detergent bottles with 15 per cent recycled HDPE.

13 Oct 16

ALPLA receives Top Supplier Excellence Award 2016

SC Johnson recognized ALPLA with the Top Supplier Award 2016 in the category “Overall Supplier Excellence”. Each year, the international company headquartered in Wisconsin (USA) bestows these awards on its best suppliers.

04 Aug 16

Alpla announces joint venture with Taba

The ALPLA Group has formed a joint venture with the Egyptian Taba Group. The Austria-based specialist in plastic packaging has thus strengthened its market position in Africa.

14 Mar 16

Alpla receives International Awards for revolutionary development in Extrusion Blow Moulding

ALPLA, the world's leading specialist in plastic packaging, has been working with partners to develop foaming technology in extrusion blow moulding (EBM) for around four years. After receiving the Smart Packaging award from the Austrian government in 2014, this sustainable procedure has now also received the internationally renowned PackTheFuture and WorldStar awards.

10 Mar 16

Alpla: New production site in Egypt

ALPLA Holding GmbH will take over the Egyptian production site of Argo S.A. at the end of 2015. In doing so, the Austrian-based specialist in plastic packaging will expand its market position in Africa. ALPLA opened its first site on the African continent in 2014 in Johannesburg.

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