The APPMA has announced its 2021-22 Board, with Rosanne Jessop of Pilz Automation and Tony Bowyer of Automation & Control Systems joining the executive team.

As e-commerce retailing continues to soar, a world-first shopping centre drone delivery service is taking off in Queensland, featuring specially designed secondary packaging to carry food and health products safely to the doorsteps of consumers.

The Victorian government has given $2.1m in grants to ten research organisations with the aim of creating new products that can use recycled materials including plastic, paper, glass, cardboard and tyres.

Packaging businesses are facing increased costs as soaring shipping charges send prices of many consumables, including board and labelstock, up again.

Work Safe Victoria has cleared food packaging operation SPC of any concerns that it had not properly consulted with its staff in its Covid-19 vaccine mandate consultation process.

Interest in the sustainability of labels and the printing and converting processes that produce them is clearly high, judging by the well attended webinar on the topic hosted yesterday by the AIP.

As part of a continuous upgrade programme, Cleanaway's Laverton Material Recovery Facility (MRF) centre in Melbourne will see $1 million invested in new equipment to increase recycling of plastic.

Woolworths Group is helping new Australian plastic recycling startup Samsara bring the potential of infinite recycling to life, and to its supermarkets.

Australia’s largest distributor of printable materials and consumables, Ball & Doggett, is strengthening its leadership team, with Leigh Hooper, Rob Brussolo and Paul Bartolo all taking new senior roles.

In a world-first for Cadbury, brand owner Mondelēz International is sourcing recycled plastic from Taghleef Industries for flexible wrappers to be printed and converted by Amcor. The new packaging, with 30% recycled content, will be on shelf in Australia from September next year.

There is much on offer in the latest issue of PKN, with 84 action-packed pages covering the latest industry news, trends and developments, and every aspect of packaging that impacts the full value chain, from sustainability, to design, innovation and industry leadership.

Beverage packaging waste will soon be a prime building material, allowing Aussie builders to replace plywood, particle board, and plaster board with low carbon, sustainable construction boards.

The keynote for APPMA’s first Digital Lunchtime Series was delivered by Francisco Betti of the World Economic Forum, who gave a global perspective of manufacturing as the new engine of growth.

In the APPMA’s free Digital Lunchtime Series, starting tomorrow a panel of industry experts from AMGC, APCO, Ai Group, and Detmold Group will dissect the topic Manufacturing: Adapting to the New Normal.

TricorBraun has entered into an agreement to buy Australian closures manufacturer Cormack Packaging, marking its first acquisition in ANZ. The transaction is expected to close end September.

The ongoing shipping crisis is causing an increasing number of Australian companies to look at sourcing packaging locally, as importing from China becomes more costly and takes longer.