Alpla
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| GmbH & Co KG | |
| Industry | Plastic packaging systems; bottles, caps and injection moulded parts, preforms |
| Founded | 1955 |
| Founder | Alwin Lehner |
| Headquarters | Hard, Austria |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
Günther Lehner CEO Nicolas Lehner CCO Georg Früh CFO |
| Revenue | € 3.4 billion (2017)[1] |
Number of employees | 19,300 (2017) |
| Subsidiaries | 178 production plants in 45 countries |
| Website | alpla.com |
ALPLA, otherwise ALPLA-Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG is an Austrian, international acting plastics manufacturer headquartered in Hard, specialising in blow-moulded bottles and caps, injection-moulded parts, preforms and tubes. It is the largest producer of packaging in Europe, with 68 production plants in Western Europe and a total of 178 production plants in over 45 countries worldwide, with approx. 19,300 employees (2017) and annual sales of € 3.4 billion in 2017.
Alpla is considered as the international leading company for plastic packaging and provides their customers packaging solutions on highest level. Through internal research and development, especially in the Extrusion Blow Molding sector and application of different manufacturing techniques, Alpla can produce specifically for the customer's requirements.
History
The company was founded in 1955 as "Alpenplastik Lehner Alwin OHG" and is today the employer of around 19,300 people in 45 countries worldwide (around 1,000 of them in Vorarlberg, Austria).
The headquarter of the company is in Hard, Austria. Alpla is building their plants all over the world close to the customers filling plant or even inside the customers building to save transport costs for the hollow bottles (called: Inhouse Plants). Over 68 plants of Alpla were built next to the customers filling system.
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