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Outstanding commitment to packaging sustainability saw Colourtrend Paints secure the APCO 2020 Industry Sector Award for Chemicals, Hardware & Machinery.

Continuing efforts to reduce its environmental impact, this reporting period Colourtrend Paints has shown an outstanding commitment to improving the sustainability of its packaging.

Having established a packaging policy focusing on ‘Reuse and Recycle’, the team has integrated packaging sustainability targets into its annual business plan as well as purchasing procedures.

Colourtrend Paints has eliminated paper labels, introduced sustainable reuse solutions for intermediate bulk containers and transitioned to recyclable resins.

Furthermore, investigation into improving business-to-business packaging efficiencies has led to a 30 per cent increase in pallet packaging capacity, with this reducing the overall quantity of pallets used and associated shrink wrapping both from suppliers, and to customers.

Food & Drink Business

The Asia Pacific International Spirits and Wines Alliance (APISWA) has appointed Ian McKendrick as its new executive director.

More than seven million Australian adults could be using GLP-1 medicines by 2036, and the packaged categories most exposed are already recording double-digit declines among current users, according to new research from EY.

In a first for the professional services company, PwC, it will offer workplace opportunities for graduates of OzHarvest’s Nourish program. Nourish is part of the food rescue organisation’s social enterprise hospitality business, Gastronomy.