• (l-r) Robert Laing, Thomas Dohse (Interpack director) Lindy Hughson and APPMA's Mark Dingley
    (l-r) Robert Laing, Thomas Dohse (Interpack director) Lindy Hughson and APPMA's Mark Dingley
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At the Interpack networking event for visitors from Australia and New Zealand, hosted by PKN and APPMA, APPMA chairman Mark Dingley shared his thoughts on Interpack as a precursor for the upcoming APPEX trade show.

Food & Drink Business

Australia’s food ministers have voted to begin the process of making the Health Star Rating (HSR) system mandatory on eligible packaged foods, after new monitoring showed the voluntary scheme fell well short of its agreed uptake target and has struggled to build consistent consumer confidence.

South-east Melbourne’s largest speculative cold storage facility has been launched to the leasing market, with Hale Capital Partners’ 27,291sqm “Adapt” project at Oakleigh South targeting completion in December 2026.

Asahi Beverages and Toll Group have launched what they describe as Australia’s largest single-location electric “route-to-market” heavy vehicle fleet, rolling out five battery-electric rigid trucks to service metropolitan beverage deliveries across Perth.