Brisbane based cardboard packaging manufacturer Pakko celebrated its fifth birthday this week, marking the milestone by recognising the growth and achievements made by the business to date.

Papermaking giant Stora Enso is investing €1bn to convert a former paper machine at its Oulu site in Finland into a high-volume, consumer board, production line.

Esko and GMG have partnered to deliver a new connection between GMG’s profiling and colour prediction solution, GMG OpenColor, and Esko’s native prepress editing software, ArtPro+.

Digital packaging print operation ePac has made the biggest HP Indigo order ever taken, specifying 50 new presses, which will be installed at new and existing plants around the world, including in ANZ.

Platypus Print Packaging is aiming to be a leading Australian-owned folding carton printer, following its acquisition of the Ovato packaging business.

Jet Technologies and long-term partner Screen are working together to deliver two new medium-to-wide format inkjet presses into the local market, aimed at the packaging industry.

Leading print and packaging business Immij is investing strongly in packaging – developing innovative solutions, acquiring Roden Print & Packaging, and installing new packaging converting equipment.

A B Graphic International will be using Labelexpo Americas 2022 to showcase new developments from its product portfolio, as well as reconnecting with customers and prospects.

Following the success of the EFI Nozomi digital corrugated packaging press, now installed in 40 locations including at Opal Packaging in Australia, the company has launched the Nozomi 14000 LED.

Specialist supplier for the food packaging, industrial manufacturing, and print & finishing industries – Jet Technologies – has released Encore, a new sustainable film for the print and packaging industries.

Currie Group has officially launched HP xRServices, a mixed reality platform, which it says will transform service delivery on the company’s range of HP Indigo digital presses, and on its entire range of printing, converting and finishing equipment.

In a single week at PacPrint, Currie Group sold four HP Indigo 6K digital label presses, a sign of growing demand from food and beverage brand owners for the benefits of digital print: high quality, short run, high impact graphics, quick speed to market.

Packaging solutions developer Bobst, locally represented by Print & Pack, has a new portfolio of products and services for converters and brand owners “to navigate through a new packaging environment”.

Leading flexo platemaking house Kirk Group has installed a new ThermoFlexX imager, combined with a full Catena+ platemaking line from XSYS, for fully automated touch-free production of flexo plates.

There will be so much to see and do at the eagerly anticipated Label & Packaging Expo and its co-located events PacPrint 2021 and the Visual Impact Expo, to be held in Melbourne at the end of the June..

Trimatt Systems, which took out the Australian Machinery Manufacturing Award – SME at the APPMA Awards of Excellence for its CardLine 7000, proudly showcased its new FoldLine 9000, BatchLine and Trimatt 1170 at AUSPACK.