South African packaging manufacturer is acquired by ALPLA

Acquisition of Verigreen Packaging complements product portfolio in Africa

ALPLA Group, the inter­na­tion­al­ly active man­u­fac­tur­er of plas­tic pack­ag­ing and recy­cling spe­cial­ist, has acquired Veri­green Pack­ag­ing, a man­u­fac­tur­er based in Dur­ban. The com­pa­ny spe­cial­izes in bot­tles and can­is­ters for lubri­cants such as motor oils.

The Group has acquired the lubri­cants divi­sion of South African pack­ag­ing man­u­fac­tur­er Veri­green with effect from July 7, 2021. Veri­green Pack­ag­ing employs 25 peo­ple at its Dur­ban site.

“This acqui­si­tion fits per­fect­ly into our strat­e­gy. It allows us to enter a mar­ket seg­ment in which we were not pre­vi­ous­ly rep­re­sent­ed in South­ern Africa and gen­er­ates syn­er­gies for our exist­ing cus­tomers as well as oppor­tu­ni­ties to fur­ther diver­si­fy our portfolio.”

- Mike Resnicek, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Sub-Saha­ran Africa

ALPLA is strength­en­ing its com­mit­ment to the region with the pur­chase. In 2017, it had acquired Box­more Pack­ag­ing, the African mar­ket leader in the pro­duc­tion of PET bot­tles, PET pre­forms as well as clo­sures. A mod­ern pro­duc­tion plant includ­ing region­al head­quar­ters is cur­rent­ly being built in Lanse­ria, near Johan­nes­burg. There is also a pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty near Cape Town. The acqui­si­tion of Veri­green Pack­ag­ing adds a plant in the coun­try’s third largest city, Dur­ban. Out­side Africa, the com­pa­ny already has a great deal of expe­ri­ence in the pro­duc­tion of pack­ag­ing for lubricants.