Karen McKenzie reviews the importance of designing accessible packaging, as hard-to-open food and medicine is much more than a minor frustration for some, it also significantly impacts wellbeing.

Industry expo Fine Food makes its return this year, running from 5-8 September at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, with registrations now open.

Kellogg's Australia is changing the packaging for Pringles 53g varieties, removing the plastic cap and replacing it with a foil laminate seal made by Sonoco.

At FoodTech Qld, PKN caught up with Proseal's John Pickering and was treated to a quick demonstration of the company's new GTR semi-automatic two-station rotary-table tray sealing machine.

The Save Food Packaging Design award recognises companies working to minimise or prevent food waste from paddock to plate using innovative and intuitive design features. Two golds were awarded.

The Food Packaging Design of the Year award recognises organisations that have designed innovative packaging and/or materials, within food packaging and processing. Caps & Closures took home gold.

Cadbury has teamed up with celebrity chef Curtis Stone, to create the centennial Cadbury Dairy Milk Curtis Stone’s Caramel Slice block, with packaging designed by Bulletproof and manufactured by Amcor.

Fresh fruit and vegetables company Costa partnered with Gilad Sadan from Navi Co Global to produce the company’s first sustainable hybrid grape punnet.

In the first commercial adoption in Australia of Tetra Pak's Tetra Recart packaging, Australia’s iconic Rosella brand has broken category convention and moved away from metal cans for its new soup range.

Klockner Pentaplast (KP) is marking the second year of its award winning KP Tray2Tray initiative, which works towards creating a closed loop for food packaging.

Arnott’s has committed to transition its soft plastic packaging used on all biscuit packaging from multi to mono-material, so it is fully recyclable, by the end of 2023.

Nonna Tonda’s fresh pasta delivery service will now be using C-Bag compostable bags from global flexible packaging and lidding films supplier KM Packaging.

Australian supplier of organic apples, R&R Smith, has adopted TIPA’s certified home compostable bags to package 1.5kg bags of Pink Lady and Royal Gala apples.

Kraft Heinz is teaming up with sustainable packaging technology company, Pulpex, to develop a paper-based, renewable and recyclable Heinz Ketchup bottle made from 100 per cent sustainably sourced wood pulp.

While seeking a packaging solution for its fresh strawberries and raspberries, New Zealand grower and supplier Best Berries turned to flexible packaging and lidding film supplier KM Packaging.

NZ fresh produce software provider Radford Software has onboarded leading Australia asparagus producer and distributor Raffa Fields to implement a packhouse system entirely remotely.