Woolworths Group has established a new executive level leadership role solely dedicated to sustainability, which will drive concerted action across each of the group’s brands and businesses.

Australian OEM HMPS has bought stretch wrapping specialist Integrated Machinery from Pro-Pac Packaging Group (ASX:PPG) for an undisclosed sum. With the acquisition, HMPS expands its footprint nationally and adds a key manufacturing hub in Melbourne.

Telstra has announced a raft of new commitments to manage its resources more efficiently, including a promise to use only renewable or recycled materials in branded packaging by the end of next year.

Packaging automation integrator Foodmach has appointed Alan Brooke as national sales engineer, effective immediately.

Woolworths is kicking sustainable packaging goals as it works towards transitioning its entire Own Brand range to recyclable, compostable or reusable packaging by 2023.

This year’s Packaging Innovation & Design Awards has come and gone, and in a year that saw an unprecedented number of high-quality entries across all categories, Melbourne-based flexible packaging specialist OF Packaging cleaned up, taking out three gold awards during the two-day event.

The Industry Packaging Professional of the Year award recognises and acknowledges the outstanding achievements and significant contributions by an individual currently working in the ANZ packaging industry.

EXCLUSIVE: Part two of the prestigious Packaging Innovation & Design Awards (PIDA) was presented via a virtual ceremony today, with the awards announced across three Packaging Design of the Year and two Professional of the Year categories.

The Young Packaging Professional of the Year award provides incentive and recognition to young professionals currently working in and seeking to pursue a career in the ANZ packaging industry.

EXCLUSIVE: Part one of the prestigious Packaging Innovation & Design Awards was presented via a virtual ceremony today, with the company awards announced across six Packaging Design of the Year categories: Food; Beverage; Health, Beauty & Wellness; Domestic & Household; Labelling & Decoration, and Outside the Box.

PKN’s May-June issue, sporting a stunning cover that showcases embossing and foiling at its finest, is a bumper edition demonstrating how the packaging industry is stepping up sustainability action in innovation and design, food packaging, and pack and label printing.

Orora will be investing $19 million, including $8 million in government grant funding, to build an advanced glass beneficiation plant at its Gawler glass packaging site in South Australia.

With the recent signing on of Aldi, Coles and Woolworths to the ANZPAC Plastics Pact, the initiative takes a step closer to radically reducing the amount of plastic used on our shelves.

The ANZPAC Plastics Pact has officially launched, uniting businesses, NGOs, and governments across the plastics supply chain behind a series of ambitious 2025 targets to eliminate plastic waste.

EXCLUSIVE: In a triumph for smart packaging, flexo and digital printing, and promotional marketing, Hungry Jack's has launched the biggest ever on-pack campaign, delivered by a cross-industry collaboration between Result Group, TLC Marketing, Multi-color Corporation, Detpak and Hungry Jack's.

The government went big on the 2021-22 budget, with packaging businesses among those set to benefit from the treasurer’s $75bn recovery strategy.