PETpla.net Insider 12 / 2020

PET news 6 NEWS PETplanet Insider Vol. 21 No. 12/20 www.petpla.net CCL invests in sustainable film project to boost recycling Speciality label, security and packaging solutions company CCL Industries Inc. announces plans for a strategic new capacity investment at their Innovia Films extrusion site in Plock, Poland. A new six- metre multi-layer co-extrusion line will be installed to produce EcoFloat shrink sleeve material. This hybrid polyolefin film facilitates easy separation of labels from PET bottles and other types of plastic containers in the recycling process to enable bottle- to-bottle circularity, an important goal for global food and beverage brand owners. The capacity comes on line in early 2022 with most of the capital deployed in 2021. www.ccllabel.com Alpla Group: Philipp Lehner new CEO from January 1, 2021 The Management Board of the Alpla Group, the global plastic packaging and recycling specialist based in Hard, Austria, is being restructured – Philipp Lehner will succeed Günther Lehner as CEO on January 1, 2021, making him the third generation of the family to run the company. Günther Lehner will assume the position of Chairman. The company has been preparing for this generational change for years, and it will now be effected with Günther Lehner handing over the agendas of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to his son Philipp Lehner on January 1, 2021. They will visit customers together in the course of 2021 in order to introduce Philipp Lehner as the new CEO of the Alpla Group. As Chairman, Günther Lehner will play a part in the com- pany’s strategic direction in the years to come. One of the focuses of his future activities will be further developing the recycling and circular economy lines of business. He will also contribute his many years of experience in technology develop- ment and innovation and will play a significant part in shaping the company’s strategic networking with customers, suppliers and other business partners. “I am delighted to be placing the management of our com- pany in family hands and I am confident that Philipp will do excellently in occupying this position. This will secure the con- tinuity that our customers and business partners need,” says Günther Lehner. “Alpla has strong foundations and is excel- lently positioned to rise to the challenges of these times,’ says Philipp Lehner. ‘I am grateful to my family for the enormous trust they are placing in me and I look forward to shaping the company’s future together with our staff.” Philipp Lehner (36) joined Alpla in June 2014 following his business management training, study periods abroad, jobs in the finance and consultancy sectors, and an MBA qualification at the Harvard Business School. On joining the family-owned business, he spent his first six months on a plant trainee pro- gramme in Lübeck, Germany. He then served as plant man- ager at Alpla Iowa in the USA for 18 months. He subsequently assumed overall responsibility as regional manager of the USA for two and a half years, before returning to Hard at the end of 2018. Since January 2019, Philipp has been CFO of Alpla, making him responsible for the areas of finance, IT, digitalisa- tion and human resources. www.alpla.com Günther Lehner (left) will place the agendas of the CEO of the Alpla Group in the hands of son Philipp Lehner. HERBOLD Plastcompactor Agglomeration with the Plastcompactor HV, ideal for: „ Powder „ Fibres „ Film „ Foam material More about our HV on www.herbold.com 'R \RX IDFH SUREOHPV ZLWK EXON GHQVLW\ RU PDWHULDO ÀRZ"