Food

KM Packaging has launched a sustainable lidding range for the Australian market to help customers meet the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation's 2025 National Packaging Targets.

Paper packaging converter Detpak has partnered with South Australian grocery retailer Foodland, to redesign core packaging products used in the bakery sections in its stores.

Byron Bay brand We* the many has a new-look mono-material recyclable pack from O F Pack for its carbon neutral gourmet health food stocked in Woolworths' new ‘Health Food Pantry’ aisle.

Toppan will be participating for the first time in Fine Food Australia 2022, a leading trade event for the food industry, held at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre from 5-8 September.

Piñata Farms’ Sunshine Coast farm is launching supply chain and packaging innovations, presenting Australian strawberries in heat sealed punnets, and rolling out a refreshed branding presence.

Sustainable and flexible packaging solutions specialist, Parkside, has collaborated with British supermarket chain Iceland to deliver one of the world’s first paper recyclable packaging solution for frozen food.

Karen McKenzie reviews the importance of designing accessible packaging, as hard-to-open food and medicine is much more than a minor frustration for some, it also significantly impacts wellbeing.

Industry expo Fine Food makes its return this year, running from 5-8 September at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, with registrations now open.

Kellogg's Australia is changing the packaging for Pringles 53g varieties, removing the plastic cap and replacing it with a foil laminate seal made by Sonoco.

At FoodTech Qld, PKN caught up with Proseal's John Pickering and was treated to a quick demonstration of the company's new GTR semi-automatic two-station rotary-table tray sealing machine.

The Save Food Packaging Design award recognises companies working to minimise or prevent food waste from paddock to plate using innovative and intuitive design features. Two golds were awarded.

The Food Packaging Design of the Year award recognises organisations that have designed innovative packaging and/or materials, within food packaging and processing. Caps & Closures took home gold.

Cadbury has teamed up with celebrity chef Curtis Stone, to create the centennial Cadbury Dairy Milk Curtis Stone’s Caramel Slice block, with packaging designed by Bulletproof and manufactured by Amcor.

Fresh fruit and vegetables company Costa partnered with Gilad Sadan from Navi Co Global to produce the company’s first sustainable hybrid grape punnet.

In the first commercial adoption in Australia of Tetra Pak's Tetra Recart packaging, Australia’s iconic Rosella brand has broken category convention and moved away from metal cans for its new soup range.

Klockner Pentaplast (KP) is marking the second year of its award winning KP Tray2Tray initiative, which works towards creating a closed loop for food packaging.