ALPLA to Add Facility in Missouri

Rigid plastics packaging manufacturer ALPLA (Hard, Austria) will break ground on a new manufacturing plant in Kansas City, Mo. later this year. Dedicated to injection molding, the newest site, which will cover 246,000-ft², is the fourth operation ALPLA will have in Missouri.

Construction on the rail-served injection molding facility will begin in late 2021 with completion planned for late 2022. The newest facility is expected to employ 75. The company’s other sites in Missouri are located in St. Peters (2) and Jefferson City. Elsewhere in the U.S. it has operations in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Utah, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin and Kentucky.  

ALPLA employs 21,600 globally producing custom-made packaging systems, bottles, caps and molded parts from 178 sites across 45 countries. Of those 178 plants, 68 are captive operations located with a customer’s facility. In North America, ALPLA focuses on bottles and caps for the food, beverage, auto, health, beauty, and home care industries. The company operates its own recycling plants for PET and HDPE in Austria, Poland, Mexico, Italy and Spain. Founded in 1955, it generated revenue of Euro 3.69 billion in 2020.