Alpla has opened its second packaging plant in Thailand.
The Austrian packaging manufacturer entered the Southeast Asian market in 2000 when it opened an in-house operation at Unilever Thailand. It inaugurated its first Thai packaging plant in Prachinburi in 2004.
Alpla is now expanding its capacity in the Southeast Asian country with a 24,000 square metre building in Chachoengsao, near Bangkok. The Chachoengsao plant will manufacture plastic bottles, preforms, matching closures, and injection-moulded parts.
With the new opening at Chachoengsao, Alpla is adding injection moulding and one-step injection stretch-blow moulding technologies to its portfolio in Thailand. The Prachinburi plant will focus solely on extrusion blow moulding going forward.
“The all-in-one concept strengthens our leading role as a system provider for safe, affordable and sustainable plastic packaging from a single source,” said Roland Wallner, Alpla Managing Director Region Asia Pacific. “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,” he added.
The new facility includes a technical centre for product development and the first STUDIOa in the Asia-Pacific region for designing new packaging solutions with customers.
All production lines have been producing in series since the beginning of 2025. More than 190 skilled workers are employed in Chachoengsao.
Alpla also operates a plastics recycling plant in Thailand, which it opened in 2022 in partnership with Thai company PTT Global Chemical. The Envicco plant in Rayong province supplies 30,000 tonnes of food-grade recycled PET material (rPET) and 15,000 tonnes of recycled HDPE material (rHDPE) annually.
“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,” commented Daniel Qiu, Alpla general Mmnager Thailand. “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 light weighting and design for recycling.”
The inauguration comes as Alpla increased its turnover to €4.9 billion in 2024, up 4% from €4.7 billion the previous year.
The company said its commitment to the circular economy is ‘paying off’ as it announced a goal to double its current plastic recycling capacity to 700,000 tonnes/year by 2030.