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Click here to read the November/December print edition of APPMA's Machinery Matters online.

In this edition, APPMA chairman Mark Dingley looks back on the unprecedented challenges that 2020 presented and looks forward to the opportunities and pitfalls of 2021 and beyond. He says there is no doubt that Australia’s processing and manufacturing industries will play a major role in the country’s economic recovery.

Also, in the APPMA News, you can read about the recently released and updated APPMA Members Directory, replete with information on the association’s 128 full members.

Further, we feature a roundup of major headlines from APPMA members from the past two months, including news from tna, SMC, Matthews Australasia, Kalfass, Jet Technologies, Result Group, and Ravenwood.

And finally there is an article about the role of wireless technology in production and a case study looking at a system Nord Drivesystems delivered for a bakery.

Machinery Matters is published bi-monthly in partnership with the Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association, as a supplement to PKN Packaging News and Food & Drink Business.

Food & Drink Business

Entries are now open for the annual Melbourne Royal Australian Food Awards. Open to commercial food producers of all sizes, it is one of the largest programs of its kind. 

Victorian brewery, Bodriggy Brewing Co, is the first brewery in the state to achieve carbon-neutral certification and only the second in Australia to do so. The independent Abbotsford-based brewery achieved certification under the federal government’s Climate Active program.

According to Rabobank data, Australian consumers are facing higher chocolate prices heading into Easter, with retail chocolate prices up 8.8 per cent on the previous year as global cocoa prices soar.