ASX-listed packaging giant Orora is passing on $600m to its shareholders after selling its Australasian fibre business to Nippon Paper for $1.7bn in a deal finalised last month.

Planet Protector Packaging founder Joanne Howarth has won the Cartier Women’s Initiative for the South Asia and Oceania region, making her the first Australian winner since the launch of the global initiative in 2006.

Amcor, Colgate-Palmolive, and Kimberly-Clark this week joined the World Wildlife Fund-led environmental advocacy organisation ReSource: Plastic.

Victorian distiller Apollo Bay Distillery has recalled nine of its gin products, discovering they had been filled with hand sanitiser due to incorrect labelling.

LJM Victoria has acquired Victoria-based OZ Connect Traders, a primary food packer that transports more than 10 million raw food packaged products annually for Australia’s food retailers and exporters.

The government's $150,000 instant asset write-off has been extended, enabling packaging businesses to take advantage of the cash-flow benefit for longer.

To mark World Environment Day, retail giant Woolworths Group released research showing that amidst Covid-19 sustainable choices are a priority for consumers.

Amcor Flexibles shut down its factory in Port Melbourne this week after a worker tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The facility reopened on Wednesday.

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Plastic packaging is among the flotsam washing up on East Coast beaches after cargo vessel APL England on Sunday lost 40 shipping containers overboard in heavy weather.

Foodmach has beat deadlines to get surgical mask-making machines designed, built, and running to help boost the Australian supply of this essential piece of PPE.

PacPrint, the four-day show held in conjunction with Visual Impact and the Label & Packaging Expo, will now be held from 28 September through 1 October next year.

Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia has signed a heads of agreement with its long-term packaging partner Dynapack Asia to build a bottle-to-bottle grade PET recycling facility in Indonesia.

A spectre is haunting the packaging industry – the spectre of digitalisation, and Packform aims to give this phantom form by bringing efficiency and transparency to the packaging industry.

Visy has offloaded its Penrith factory in a $17.25m sale and leaseback deal that will see the company continue to run a glass sorting and recycling operation from the premises.

Amcor has raised its full year earnings per share outlook, as it released robust third quarter profits it said were due in part to virus-induced supermarket panic buying.