At its new plant in Thailand, ALPLA will collaborate with customers to design and develop packaging products, utilizing one-step injection stretch-blow and injection moulding to produce plastic bottles, preforms, matching closures, and more.
Located in Chachoengsao, near Bangkok, the 24,000 square-metre building serves as a new location for production and administration. ALPLA intends to produce a range of injection-moulded packaging parts at the site, making use of its newly introduced injection moulding and one-step injection stretch-blow moulding technologies.
However, the site also features a technical centre for product development – as well as the region’s first STUDIOa ‘one-stop-shop’ for designing ‘safe, affordable and sustainable full-system solutions made of plastic’ alongside customers.
“The all-in-one concept strengthens our leading role as a system provider for safe, affordable and sustainable plastic packaging from a single source,” explains Roland Wallner, ALPLA’s managing director Region Asia Pacific (APAC). “Chachoengsao combines technological diversity, the highest quality and customer service under one roof. In this way, we wish to expand our market share and unlock new segments.”
The site’s production lines have been producing in series since the start of 2025, and the new location is set to increase ALPLA’s production capacity and, in turn, its presence in Southeast Asia. Its placement in the Bangkok metropolitan region is set to bring ALPLA in closer proximity with its customers and optimize connections.
Chachoengsao will replace ALPLA’s first Thai plant in Prachinburi as the company’s headquarters, and the later will be dedicated entirely to extrusion blow moulding in the future.
“Our involvement in Thailand more than 20 years ago represented the start of our activities in Southeast Asia and is still central to our growth today,” says Philipp Lehner, CEO of ALPLA. “The flagship plant in Chachoengsao covers all the needs of our customers and unlocks new opportunities in the market.”
“In Thailand, we are also growing together with our customers,” adds Daniel Qiu, general manager Thailand at ALPLA. “With two high-performance production plants and the recycling plant, we are securing the long-term supply of sustainable packaging solutions and strengthening the nationwide circular economy.
“ALPLA now also offers added value for better products with STUDIOa as well as the technical centre. The innovative one-stop-shop for product design includes customers right from the development phase and creates more sustainable packaging thanks to lightweighting and design for recycling.”
Back in 2022, ALPLA formed its Asia-Pacific operations by consolidating its business in Southeast Asia and China
It also entered into a joint venture partnership with PTT Global Chemical to expand in the recycling space; apparently, their joint state-of-the-art recycling plant ENVICCO in the Rayong province produces 30,000 tonnes of food-grade recycled PET material and 15,000 tonnes of recycled HDPE material every year.
In a more recent development, ALPLA has acquired a majority stake in Clean Bottle; its plant in São José dos Pinhais reportedly comes with an annual capacity of 15,000 tonnes of rHDPE, which ALPLA hopes to utilize to supply recycled packaging on South American markets.
A Memorandum of Understanding between Dow and SCG Chemicals also aims to process an annual 200kt of plastic waste in the Asia Pacific region by 2030. The partnership’s initial phases will focus on waste sorting, mechanical recycling, and advanced recycling in Thailand, with plans to source plastic waste feedstocks in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand in the future.
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