International Austrian plastic bottle maker Alpla Holding
International Austrian plastic bottle maker Alpla Holding GmbH has bought 11 SBO Universal2eco blow moulding machines and 1,200 plastic mold from the Sidel Group after acquiring a major contract from among Latin America’s Modernest and biggest Coca-Cola bottlers. It has been establishing them at 6 factories across Mexico, and ought be in operation in a couple of weeks. Neither Sidel nor Alpla has disclosed the value of the plastic molding contract. But Martin Stark, Alpla’s Austria-settled technological and buying manager, described it in the news release as “big.” A higher-ranking managing director at the head office of Mexican subsidiary Alpla México SA de CV referred complete enquiries to Alpla in Austria, from wherever the talkses for the purchase of the new machinery were conducted, he told. Alpla has fifteen factories in Mexico, he added. According to the news release, Alpla will supply 900 million bottles a year all over 8 years to Arca Continental SAB de CV, of M...