To further strengthen its customer focus and innovative strength, ALPLA will acquire KM Packaging and integrate all six of its sites, along with its existing management and personnel. Binding transaction documents were signed on 23 June 2025 and closing remains subject to approval by the relevant competition authorities. The integration of KM Packaging's business units will immediately and comprehensively expand ALPLA's product portfolio and significantly increase its capacity to produce closures for tubes, bottles, and jars for a variety of markets, including food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
CMS is the lead legal advisor to ALPLA throughout the acquisition process, providing comprehensive advisory services from initial transaction structuring, due diligence support, negotiation/signing of the transaction documents and on regulatory approval clearance.
Alexander Rakosi, Partner in Corporate/M&A: "With the acquisition of KM Packaging, ALPLA is consolidating its leading position in the global market for injection-moulded packaging solutions. We are proud to be involved in a transaction that brings together two internationally active companies with future-oriented visions and ultimately benefits customers, stakeholders and the entire packaging industry."
By advising on this acquisition, CMS underscores its leading position in supporting clients on complex international M&A transactions.
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About ALPLA Group
ALPLA is one of the world’s leading companies in the manufacture and recycling of plastic packaging. More than 24,000 employees worldwide produce custom-made packaging systems, bottles, closures and moulded parts at 200 sites across 46 countries. The high-quality packaging is used in a wide range of areas, including for food and drinks, cosmetics and care products, household cleaning products, detergents and cleaning agents, pharmaceutical products, engine oils and lubricants.
ALPLA operates recycling plants for PET and HDPE in Austria, Germany, Poland, Mexico, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Romania, Thailand and Brazil. Other projects are being realised elsewhere around the world.
About ALPLAinject
ALPLAinject manufactures roughly 65 billion injection-moulded parts per year at 44 plants around the world. The division has more than 650 state-of-the-art injection- and compression-moulding machines. As a pioneer in packaging solutions and recycling, ALPLA also relies on technological innovation. ALPLAinject boasts decades of experience in lightweighting, on both simple as well as highly complex assembly and decoration lines, and in alternative and reusable materials as well as energy-saving production equipment.
