APPEX Video: Packserv's Nathan Wardell

In this APPEX 2024 video interview, Nathan Wardell, managing director at Packserv, speaks with Will Wain-Williams about the company's automatic production lines and its new twin lane eight-head automatic liquid filler.

Check out the video below:

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Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund will take a 25 per cent stake in JBS’s Australian and New Zealand operations, with Danantara Investment Management paying $3.5 billion (US$2.5 billion) in equity under a joint venture that gives the world’s largest protein producer up to US$5 billion to fund regional expansion.

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