Alupol Packaging extruder of the month
Head office: Tychy, Poland CEO: Rafal Lechowicz
Founded: 1956 Ownership: Public (owned by Grupa Kety, which trades on Warsaw Stock Exchange) Turnover (2015): PLN435m (around US$104m)
Profile: Alupol Packaging, a subsidiary of Grupa Kety, is one of Europe’s leading producers of flexible packaging. Its products range from high barrier films for chilled food to packaging for dry goods, dairy products and frozen food.
Product lines: The company offers a broad range of laminated film for use across many industries. Its Triplex laminate, for instance, combines PET, aluminium foil and PE, while its and Quatrex laminate combines paper, PE and aluminium. It also produces laminates for household and pharmaceutical products, as well as labels for drinks bottles. Its HBF9 high barrier film is a multi-layer product using materials including PET, EVOH, PA, PP and PE – as well as special additives – and can be used to make products such as thermoformed packaging for chilled food.
Factory locations: The company has two flexible packaging plants in Poland – in Tychy and Kety – that have a combined annual output of around 27,000 tonnes of multi-layer laminated packaging (based on paper, aluminium foil and plastics), as well as plastic monofoils. It also owns other plants through subsidiaries like Alupol Films – which recently took delivery of a five-layer BOPP stretch film line from Brueckner recently, at its plant in Oswiecim.
To be considered for ‘Extruder of the Month’, contact the editor on
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