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The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation’s (APCO) prestigious Annual Awards ceremony will return this year, in person for the first time in three years, on Thursday 10 November.

The APCO Awards celebrate the achievements of the leaders in sustainable packaging – those organisations and individuals who embody the very best of what the industry in Australia has to offer – working towards the 2025 National Packaging Targets and the development of a true circular economy for sustainable packaging.

This year marks the introduction of a new award for small to medium enterprises, the ‘Highest Performing SME award’, which will highlight leadership by small businesses in the packaging space. 

Crucially, submissions for the self-nominated ‘Our Packaging Future (OPF)’ awards are now open, so get ready to tell APCO about your ‘fantastic successes’  over the last year.

For more information, and to enter your organisation, click here. The event will also be livestreamed for those that can’t make it in person.

Food & Drink Business

Almondco and SunRice will be inducted into the Australian Export Awards Hall of Fame in 2026 in recognition of their outstanding and sustained contribution to Australian exporting.

Food and beverage manufacturers are facing a warehouse space crisis, and most of them did not see it coming. Production expanded, storage followed and over time, an organised operation became a fragmented footprint of disconnected warehouses, rising third-party costs, and a site nobody would have designed on purpose. Swisslog ANZ director of sales, Steve Dimitrovski, examines why the space problem is structural and how automation is helping manufacturers solve it without building a new site.

NSW Food and Beverage manufacturers are invited to join an upcoming information session at the Advanced Manufacturing Readiness Facility (AMRF) to learn about funding and support available to help businesses innovate, grow and improve competitiveness.