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Soft Plastic Stewardship Australia and its industry partners have received long-term approval from the ACCC to operate a national soft plastics collection and recycling scheme, under an eight-year authorisation. Read more
ASX-listed Pro-Pac Packaging Group (PPG), which entered voluntary administration in October, has confirmed further changes to its leadership and administration timeline.
The ANZ flexible converting industry is set to benefit from Currie Group's new strategic collaboration with packaging leaders Uteco and Bimec, and the European Flex-Converting Alliance (FlexCA).
As National Recycling Week gets underway in Australia, the NSW Government has announced the next phase of its plastics phase-outs and phase-ins. Introducing tethered caps on plastics drinks bottles by 2030 is on the list.
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Jet Technologies expands packaging team
11 Nov 2025Donce Bozinovski has joined the packaging team at Jet Technologies as key account manager focusing on the coffee sector, bringing years of industry-specific experience to the business.
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Precision lidding gives Wicked Sister packaging edge
6 Nov 2025Jet Technologies has supplied the foil lidding for Wicked Sister’s limited-edition dessert range, produced to mark the upcoming cinema release of Wicked: For Good by Universal Pictures.
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Sustainability Awards 2025: Winners revealed
14 Nov 2025During the Sustainable Packaging Summit last week in Utrecht, the winners of the global Sustainability Awards 2025 – dubbed the “Nobel prize” for sustainable packaging innovation – were revealed.
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Absolut Keith Haring edition lands in Australia
12 Nov 2025Absolut has released the Keith Haring Artist Edition bottle in Australia, marking a renewed collaboration with the late pop artist nearly four decades after his original design for the brand.
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European tube deliveries drop 3.9% in H1 2025
9 Oct 2025Deliveries of aluminium, laminate and plastic tubes in Europe fell 3.9 per cent to about 5.8 billion units in the first half of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024, according to the European tube manufacturers association (etma).
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Quicktron brings QuickMix to Australia
6 Nov 2025Quicktron Robotics is introducing its new generation of integrated goods-handling technologies, the QuickMix suite, to the Australian market.
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PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 14 November
14 Nov 2025In the news: ACCC, SPSA, Planet Ark, Holloway Group, iQRenew, Currie Group, Pro-Pac Packaging Group, Jet Technologies, Phantm, Mecca, Boxer & Co., Absolut
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PKN Podcast Ep 123: with Tony Ibbotson
17 Nov 2025In this episode, Lindy Hughson speaks with Tony Ibbotson, founder and creative director at The Creative Method, about key trends for packaging design for 2026 and beyond.
Chocolate On Purpose has received the Social Enterprise Business award at the 2025 Australian Women's Small Business Champion Awards – celebrating Indigenous cultural knowledge of native botanicals and delicious chocolate.
An $8 million federal government grant program aimed at accelerating Australia’s seaweed industry has delivered new research capability, production infrastructure and international collaboration to support commercial growth of Asparagopsis, the methane-inhibiting seaweed used in livestock feed supplements.
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) and NSW producer, The Gourmet Goat Lady, have completed a proof-of-concept project demonstrating that goat salami can be safely manufactured and sold in Australia, opening a new value-added opportunity for the goatmeat sector.
