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Orora has delivered a solid result in FY25, completing its transformation into a focused, market-leading beverage packaging provider, with growth in revenue and earnings across its key divisions, despite challenging global conditions and tariff-related headwinds. Read more
SIG has unveiled Australia’s first recycle-ready bag-in-box for wine, developed at its Adelaide facility in partnership with major local wineries. The mono-material pack includes a recyclable tap.
iQRenew has been awarded $9.1 million in joint funding from the Australian and NSW governments to upgrade its SPEC recycling facility to increase its capacity to process soft plastic packaging.
The ACCC's Draft Determination to authorise Soft Plastics Stewardship Australia’s nationwide recycling scheme marks the most significant step yet in rebuilding the nation’s ability to recycle one of the hardest packaging formats in the waste stream.
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CCEP’s $75m can line sets new benchmark
13 Aug 2025CCEP has invested $75m in a high-speed canning line at its Richlands facility boosting local production and packaging capacity with advanced technology, sustainability, and precision quality control.
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Sonoco GreenCan adopted for spices
8 Jul 2025Austrian spice company Kotanyi has launched a new range of spice blends in Sonoco’s paper-based GreenCan packaging, made with 69% recycled content and featuring an integrated paper lid.
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Margaret River region adopts lightweight wine bottles
14 Aug 2025The Margaret River Wine Association has introduced a Lightweight Glass Packaging Charter, the first regionally focused initiative of its kind in Australia to reduce the carbon footprint of wine production.
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Yates brings new pouch system to garden care
6 Aug 2025Yates has introduced a new hose-on garden care range using a pouch packaging system designed to reduce mess and simplify application.
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Paper bubble wrap debuts in Australia
31 Jul 2025Wrapt Packaging has introduced a new paper-based protective packaging material to the Australian market – Papair Bubble Wrap – designed to provide an alternative to conventional plastic bubble wrap.
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KHS enhances closure inspection with AI
30 Jul 2025KHS Group has optimised its Innocheck TSI closure inspection unit with the implementation of an AI-based fault detector designed for tethered caps.
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PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 15 August
15 Aug 2025In the news: Orora, CCEP, iQRenew, Margaret River Wine Association, SIG, BioPak, Bygreen, Murdoch University, Montague Farms
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PKN Podcast Ep 115: with Patrick Manley
11 Aug 2025Reuse that works: PKN publisher Lindy Hughson talks with Patrick Manley, CEO and co-founder of Cercle, about redefining takeaway packaging with a high-return reusable cup and container system.
An Australian grape-export company has been fined more than $1 million dollars for trying to bypass controls to export table grapes to New Zealand. The case was prosecuted by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) after a referral from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
Bacardi-Martini Australia (BCA) says its new distribution agreement with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) will transform the Australian footprint of the family-owned company’s portfolio.
With an expected EBITDA of $50 to $68 million and a net loss after tax of -$27 to -$40 million – compared to -$4.1 million and -$182.1 million respectively in FY24 – Synlait Milk says its year-on-year performance and overall result is a “marked improvement”.
