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The double auction for packaging, converting and printing equipment from Cardboard Containers in Rosebery and Dotprint in Springvale will now finish at the end of next week, as the volume of traffic caused the Printing Machinery Auctions website to crash yesterday, on what should have been the final day of the online auction.

All registrants will have the opportunity to bid or re-bid. The auction site is keeping bidders informed and says it is hoping to have the site live again today. Click printingmachineryauctions.com.au for the auction.

Surplus plant from Cardboard Containers in Rosebery, NSW, is up for auction, as the company merges with another Sydney print and packaging outfit.

The plant going under the hammer includes a 1988 Roland 606 B1 six-colour press. There is no reserve, and the successful bidder will likely get the press for less than $10,000.

 

There is also a Bobst SP 900 E available for bids. It was manufactured in 1972, reconditioned and upgraded 2005. Also available is a Keck boxmaker, several Heidelberg cylinders, and a 1973 Solna four-colour offset press.

Centrepiece of the Dotprint auction is a Heidelberg CD 102-5 (1998), a five-colour automated 102 Carton Diameter (CD) offset press, with 199 million impressions. Finishing equipment includes two Polar guillotines, three Heidelberg cylinders, two Muller-Martini saddle stitchers, and three MBO folders.

Food & Drink Business

Australia’s food and beverage manufacturing industry is converging on Melbourne this week for foodpro 2026, the country’s leading trade event for processing, packaging and innovation. Held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) from 26-29 July, foodpro 2026 will be opened at 10am on Sunday 26 July by Victorian Minister for Industry and Advanced Manufacturing and Minister for Skills and TAFE, Colin Brooks.

De Bortoli Wines is restructuring its vineyard portfolio across four regions, removing underperforming blocks in the oversupplied Riverina while buying new land in the Yarra Valley and converting most of its King Valley plantings to Prosecco, Pinot Grigio and Sangiovese.

Ready-to-drink cocktail company, Curatif, has completed a crowd-sourced funding campaign of over $1.4 million through OnMarket, supported by 613 investors. The company is gearing up to launch overseas, with a fulfilment partner already in place to take its online model into the UK.