Every industry has its hub - the place where ideas the world watches are born. The packaging industry's is, arguably, Japan. Japan's packaging show is Tokyo Pack.

Former Aerosol Association of Australia President, Lindsay Showyin, received an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) this year. What does that honour mean to him?

The AIPIA Congress 2014 theme, is Profiting from Active and Intelligent Packaging. Sign up now to present what you know about that.

tna is taking its flagship products to interpack. Its stand may give your 2014 business goals the boost they need.

Amcor was very close to finalising its purchase of the assets of troubled plastic maker, Constar on February 7th. Then the process stopped.

Operations manager, Paul Gunson, is the first to wear the biennial badge of honour, the R.N. Windsor Award.

Folding carton specialist, Colorpak, has released cautiously optimistic half year results.

Pentawards Concept, applauding forward thinking packaging concepts whether they got through the approval process or not, is open for entries.

APPMA is offering a packaging engineer a Diploma in Packaging Technology scholarship. Will that engineer be you?

Dogs don't really need toys. And pet owners don't need to buy sticks to throw to them. Parks are full of free ones. That's why The Sticks packaging caught our eye.

SEW-Eurodrive DriveACADEMY is taking bookings for its 2014 courses.

It's a long way to California. So if you missed last year's IAPRI conference, mark Melbourne 15-19 June in your diary.

The 12th edition of the AFGC CHEP Retail Index is out. The news is good.

It's time to get your entry ready for the 26th DuPont Awards for Innovation

It's January and Ardagh has already snared four major packaging awards - at Worldstar.

This year, innovation is set to be the hot topic and compliance and safety imperatives are the reasons why.