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ALPLA to Open New Plastic Packaging Plant in North Las Vegas in 2027
Global packaging and recycling company ALPLA is expanding its U.S. manufacturing network with a new 13,000-square-meter plastic packaging plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The facility is scheduled to begin operations in spring 2027 and will manufacture plastic bottles for food and beverage, health and beauty, and home-care markets.
By Paul Ploumis
Published October 7, 2026
Summary Points
- New facility: ALPLA will open a 13,000-square-meter manufacturing plant at the Craig Road Logistics Center in North Las Vegas.
- Start-up: Operations are scheduled to begin in spring 2027.
- Production: The facility will manufacture plastic bottles using extrusion blow moulding technology.
- Markets: Customers will include the food and beverage, health and beauty, and home-care sectors.
- Regional expansion: North Las Vegas will become ALPLA's second manufacturing location in the western United States.
- Employment: The project is expected to create 36 local jobs.
- U.S. presence: ALPLA says its U.S. network will comprise 19 locations with the Nevada expansion.
SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Austria-headquartered packaging and recycling company ALPLA is expanding its U.S. manufacturing footprint with a new plastic-packaging facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
The approximately 13,000-square-meter facility will be located within the Craig Road Logistics Center and is scheduled to begin operations in spring 2027.
ALPLA plans to manufacture plastic bottles at the site using extrusion blow moulding, or EBM, technology.
The plant will serve both domestic and international customers across several consumer-goods markets.
SCRAPMONSTER EDGE
The Nevada project is primarily a packaging-manufacturing expansion, not a newly announced recycling plant. Its recycling relevance comes from ALPLA's broader strategy of integrating packaging production with increasing use of post-consumer recycled plastics and a growing global recycling network.
Plant Will Produce Plastic Bottles Using EBM Technology
The North Las Vegas facility will use extrusion blow moulding to manufacture plastic bottles.
EBM is widely used for producing hollow plastic containers and is particularly suited to high-volume packaging for consumer and industrial applications.
ALPLA said the new plant will serve customers in sectors including:
- food and beverages;
- health and beauty;
- home care; and
- future packaging partnerships as additional capacity becomes available.
The company has not disclosed the plant's annual bottle-production capacity or the specific polymers that will be processed at the facility.
North Las Vegas Gives ALPLA Western Logistics Hub
ALPLA identified the site's location as one of the main strategic benefits of the investment.
The Craig Road Logistics Center gives the company access to major transportation corridors and regional distribution networks serving the western United States.
Locating production closer to customers can reduce transport distances, shorten delivery times and give packaging manufacturers greater flexibility in responding to changes in customer demand.
ALPLA said the Nevada operation will become its second manufacturing location in the western United States.
REGIONAL SUPPLY READ
Packaging is expensive to move long distances relative to its weight. Adding regional manufacturing capacity allows producers to locate bottle production closer to fillers and consumer-goods plants, reducing logistics exposure and improving response times.
Project Will Create 36 Jobs
The North Las Vegas facility is expected to create 36 local jobs.
ALPLA has already begun recruiting for several Las Vegas positions, including plant management, maintenance, logistics and production-related roles.
The company says the expansion brings its U.S. network to 19 locations.
The United States is part of ALPLA's broader North American manufacturing platform, which supplies packaging to major consumer-goods manufacturers as well as regional customers.
ALPLA Says Investment Supports Long-Term North American Growth
Tasos Pourloukakis, Regional Managing Director of ALPLA North America, said the Nevada project forms part of the company's longer-term growth strategy in the region.
ALPLA expects the new plant to expand production capacity while giving the company more flexibility to adapt to changes in customer requirements and regional demand.
The company has been investing in additional manufacturing, technology and workforce-development capacity across North America.
ALPLA Combines Packaging Production With Recycling
Although the North Las Vegas announcement does not include a dedicated recycling line, ALPLA operates an extensive global plastics-recycling business alongside its packaging operations.
The company's ALPLArecycling division processes post-consumer plastics into recycled PET and HDPE that can be reused in packaging applications.
ALPLA currently has approximately 400,000 tonnes of installed and planned annual recycling capacity through its international recycling network.
The group is targeting 700,000 tonnes by 2030.
That recycling strategy is designed to provide ALPLA and its customers with a more secure supply of recycled resin while reducing reliance on virgin plastic where technical and regulatory requirements allow recycled material to be used.
Nearly One-Quarter of ALPLA's Plastic Was Recycled Material in 2025
ALPLA reported that 23.7% of the plastic material it used globally in 2025 came from post-consumer recycled sources.
The company has set a target of increasing that share to 30% by 2030.
It also aims for 95% of the plastic packaging materials it uses to meet its design-for-recycling criteria by the end of the decade.
| ALPLA Circularity Measure | Current / Latest | 2030 Target |
|---|---|---|
| Post-Consumer Recycled Material Share | 23.7% in 2025 | 30% |
| Installed + Planned Recycling Capacity | ~400,000 tonnes/year | 700,000 tonnes/year |
| Packaging Meeting Design-for-Recycling Criteria | 92.7% recyclable materials reported in 2025 | 95% |
These are company-wide targets. ALPLA has not stated that the North Las Vegas facility itself will begin operations using a particular percentage of post-consumer recycled resin.
Recycling Capacity Targeted to Reach 700,000 Tonnes
ALPLA's recycling network currently spans multiple countries and focuses primarily on recycled PET and recycled HDPE.
In 2026, the company's installed and projected recycling capacity totaled about 400,000 tonnes per year, comprising approximately 300,000 tonnes of rPET and 100,000 tonnes of rHDPE.
ALPLA plans to raise overall capacity to 700,000 tonnes by 2030.
From 2026 onward, the company has also committed to investing around €15 million annually in recycling infrastructure, business expansion and associated operations.
U.S. Plastics Manufacturing Remains a Large End Market
The Nevada expansion comes as the United States maintains one of the world's largest plastics-manufacturing markets.
The U.S. plastics industry generated approximately $533.6 billion in shipments in 2025 and directly supported about 1.05 million jobs, according to the Plastics Industry Association's latest industry report.
Packaging remains one of the largest downstream applications for plastic resins and therefore an important potential market for recycled PET and HDPE where product requirements permit their use.
ALPLA's strategy of combining regional bottle production with its wider recycling operations places the company on both sides of that market: consuming resin to manufacture packaging while also investing in the recovery and production of recycled material.
Market Read
ALPLA's North Las Vegas project is modest in employment terms, with 36 planned jobs, but strategically it fills a geographic gap in the company's U.S. manufacturing network.
The site's proximity to western transportation routes should allow ALPLA to move bottle production closer to customers and reduce dependence on longer-distance deliveries from other plants.
For the recycling sector, the project should be viewed within ALPLA's broader circular-material strategy rather than as a standalone recycling investment.
The company is simultaneously expanding packaging production, increasing post-consumer recycled content and building additional rPET and rHDPE capacity globally.
The key issue to watch will be whether ALPLA eventually integrates significant recycled resin into production at the North Las Vegas site and whether additional recycling infrastructure is developed in the western U.S. as its manufacturing footprint grows.
Reporting note: ALPLA has not announced a dedicated recycling operation or a specific recycled-content requirement for the North Las Vegas facility. Recycling-capacity and PCR targets cited above refer to the company globally.
