ALPLA, otherwise ALPLA Group is an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n, international acting plastics manufacturer and plastics recycler headquartered in

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, specialising in blow-moulded

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and caps, injection-moulded parts, preforms and tubes. It is one of the largest producers of rigid plastic packaging solutions worldwide, with a total of 190 production plants in 46 countries worldwide, approx. 23,300 employees and annual sales of € 5.10 billion in 2022. In early 2021, the ALPLA Group announced that it would invest an average of 50 million euros a year until 2025 in the ongoing expansion of its recycling activities.

History

The company was founded in 1955 as ''"Alpenplastik Lehner Alwin OHG"'' and is today the employer of around 23,300 people in 46 countries worldwide (around 1,120 of them in

Vorarlberg Vorarlberg ( , ; gsw, label= Vorarlbergisch, Vorarlbearg, , or ) is the westernmost state () of Austria. It has the second-smallest geographical area after Vienna and, although it also has the second-smallest population, it is the state with the ...

). The headquarter of the company is in

. ALPLA is building their plants all over the world close to the customers filling plant or even inside the customers building (called: ''Inhouse Plants''). 68 plants of Alpla were built next to the customers filling system.

References

{{reflist Manufacturing companies of Austria Plastics companies of Austria Economy of Vorarlberg