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There's never a dull moment in the dynamic Australasian packaging industry, with M&A activity, leadership changes, and product innovation keeping our news desk busy all year long.

From Orora's booming growth over the financial year, to the Australian Government's pledge to make all packaging in the country reusable, compostable or recyclable by 2025, to needles in strawberries and plastic bags out of supermarkets, to the first ever Print21 + PKN LIVE joint event, 2018 was a rollercoaster of a year for the packaging industry... and PKN was there to cover all the news highlights.

See our review of the year that was in the latest issue of PKN magazine.

Food & Drink Business

Endeavour Group and data analytics firm Quantium have launched Distilled Data, a platform giving the retailer’s trade suppliers access to combined point of sale and aggregated shopper data across Dan Murphy’s and BWS.

Ingredients distributor, Brenntag, says its Innovation & Application Centre for Nutrition in Jakarta, will provide food and beverage manufacturers in the region access to formulation development, application testing, laboratory analysis, pilot production and technical training.

Brisbane-founded and owned beef brand, Senku’s Pure Wagyu fillet – bred and raised on a Central Queensland farm, has taked the top global title at the World Steak Challenge in Amsterdam.