ALPLA Group specializes in rigid plastic packaging solutions, such as packaging systems, bottles, bottle caps, components made by injection, preforms and tubes. The company manufactures items from rigid plastic for packaging, for instance, PET (polyethylene terephthalate) preforms and bottles /containers, as well as plastic packaging for food products, milk and dairy products, oils and lubricants, and pharmaceuticals.
In Romania, ALPLA Group sells PET preforms, containers made by extrusion blow moulding (EBM), bottles, monolayer and multilayer canisters, plastic bottle caps, droppers, bottle caps and dosage systems, printed tubes and auxiliary products.
Wolf Plastics Ambalaje, based in Romania’s Ilfov County, is the local division of Austrian company Wolf Plastics Verpackungen and sells mostly buckets. The company had a turnover of RON41.4 million in 2020, up 9% on the year, and 73 employees.
“Following an analysis, the Competition Council found the operation poses no significant obstacles in terms of actual competition on the Romanian market, or on a significant part of it and there is no serious doubt regarding its compatibility with the normal competitive environment”, according to representatives of the antitrust watchdog.
ALPLA, with annual sales of EUR3.7 billion and 178 factories across 45 countries globally, invests EUR7.5 million in the construction of a recycling factory in Targu Mures, in Romania’s central-northern Mures County.
The company has been present in Romania since 2011, when it opened its first factory in Bucharest. In 2017, ALPLA expanded to Timisoara (western Romania) and acquired the company Star East Pet Romania based in Brasov. In 2018, it acquired Argo S.A. and developed its expertise in the manufacturing of packaging for the pharmaceuticals and agro sectors.
Wolf Plastics was founded in Kammern, Austria, in 1973. It supplies small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and international key accounts in the construction, chemical and food industries with buckets, canisters and bottles made at its factories in Kammern (Austria), Fertoszentmiklos (Hungary) and near capital Bucharest (Romania).