Area served Worldwide Website alpla.com Number of employees 16,000 CEO Günther Lehner (2006–) Type of business GmbH & Co KG | Key people Günther Lehner (CEO) Revenue 3.3 billion EUR (2016) Founded 1955 | |
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Industry Plastic packaging systems. bottles, caps Founder Alwin and Helmuth Lehner Subsidiaries 155 production plants in 43 countries Profiles | ||
ALPLA, otherwise ALPLA-Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG is an Austrian 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 69 production plants in Western Europe and a total of 154 production plants in over 40 countries worldwide, with approx. 17,300 employees (2016) and annual sales of € 3,3 billion in 2016.
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History
The company was founded in 1955 as "Alpenplastik Lehner Alwin OHG" and is today the employer of around 17,300 people in 42 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 costumers filling plant or even inside the customers building to save transport costs for the hollow bottles (called: Inhouse Plants). Around half of the plants of Alpla are built next to the customers filling system.
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