Alpla makes biggest-ever acquisition

Plastics packaging manufacturer Alpla is to acquire South Africa-based Boxmore Packaging, subject to approvals. With around 1,000 employees and nine production facilities, Boxmore Packaging, headquartered in Samrand, Johannesburg, is a producer of PET preforms, bottles and closures and its products are distributed to more than 20 African countries and to islands in the Indian Ocean….