Ardagh Australia's John Bigley has been elected to succeed Lindsay Showyin as president of the Aerosol Association of Australia.

The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) celebrated its 50 year milestone last week in a well-attended event at Melbourne's Chapter House.

A new alliance between Australia's iMS and NZ's Colorite aims to provide a one-stop branding service for FMCG companies.

GS1 and NEHTA have joined forces to launch Recallnet Healthcare, an electronic recall and track and trace service for the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.

Jet Technologies is moving into a new, larger, premises near Sydney Airport, purpose-built to enable it to expand its services.

The AIP is calling for donations and volunteers to help it pack hampers for Foodbank to distribute to the country's needy at Christmas.

The Labor party has offered $25 million to update struggling SPC Ardmona's food processing and packaging operations if it wins the upcoming federal election.

Ski yoghurt 1kg brand tubs are to be given a pink makeover to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The Australian Packaging Covenant's new video explains the organisation's role through simple graphics and information bites.

Wrap rage may be no laughing matter, but comedian Larry David has the audience chuckling when trying to open a clamshell pack.

The Mondi Group has proved the durability of its Advantage sack kraft paper in the harshest environment of all - Antarctica.

Amcor has announced record profit for 2012-2013, a result it says puts it in good stead when it splits into separate Australasian-focused and global businesses.

Materials handling specialist Australis Engineering has become the APPMA's latest member company.

The AIP has announced UPM Raflatac has signed on as an industry mentor to its students, and unveiled the speaker line-up for its October technical dinner.

The GS1 GoScan smart device app has won national honours in the 2013 iAwards for ICT innovation.

BioPak is bringing colour to its BioCup product by featuring Australian artists on the range of carbon-neutral disposable coffee cups.