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The AIP and the APPMA will be holding the inaugural Packaging & Processing Innovation Design Awards (PIDA) alongside AUSPACK on 8 March.

The PIDA Awards are designed to recognise companies and individuals making a significant difference in their field.

It is the exclusive awards program for all Australian entries into the prestigious WorldStar Packaging Awards.

The 2017 Winners will be announced during the event, which will be held at the Novotel in Sydney Olympic Park.

The PIDA Awards are sponsored by Midway Metals, NCI Packaging, SMC, Agility, Fuji Xerox, Packaging Council of NZ, Wellman Packaging, NHP, UPM Raflatac, Auspouch, EcodEX, Empauer, ESKO and PKN Packaging News.

You can buy tickets to the event here.

Food & Drink Business

FOODiQ Global has completed a 28-year analysis of Australian non-alcoholic drink sales, revealing a strong swing towards water and low- and no-sugar carbonated drinks for consumer choices in the beverage aisle. The study was commissioned by the Australian Beverages Council.

Australian Plant Proteins (APP) has launched Nothing Else, a direct-to-consumer brand offering faba bean and yellow pea protein isolates manufactured entirely at its Horsham, Victoria facility, making it the only vertically integrated plant protein isolate producer in the country with a consumer-facing product line.

Baiada Poultry has completed a national network infrastructure overhaul to strengthen operational resilience and cybersecurity visibility across its vertically integrated supply chain, from breeding farms and feed mills through to processing plants and distribution facilities.