Organisers of this year's World Congress on Active and Intelligent Packaging have announced a 40 speaker line-up for the event in Germany in September.

New Zealand dairy brand Anchor has moved to reassure consumers and recycling companies on the recycling properties of its triple-layer HDPE milk bottles.

The Packaging Council of Australia has announced a 23 August deadline for registrations for this year's Australian Packaging Design Awards (APDA).

PKN TV takes a look at one of the final frontiers for food packaging - NASA's facilities for the preparation and packing of food for astronauts in orbit.

New research has produced evidence that plain packaging of tobacco reduced smokers' satisfaction with their brands of choice.

Rapid Machinery Company is set to ship one of its Rapid X label printing lines to Europe following on the technology's debut at the FESPA trade show in London.

Dilmah has unveiled its answer to the coffee pod trend, with tea in a cap packaging format.

Food Industry experts at the AIFST convention in Brisbane have squashed suggestions that plain packaging should be introduced for high calorie foods.

JMP has shown off a new secure bulk wine export tank, Trust Flexitank, at WineTech in Sydney.

Amcor has introduced two new variants to its Stelvin wine cap liner range at the WineTech trade show in Sydney.

Coca-Cola Amatil will shut its water bottling operations in Peats Ridge, NSW, and move bottling of its Peats Ridge brand to Sydney.

Coca-Cola is giving beach goers a cool experience in this year's northern summer with a new bottle crafted entirely from ice.

The Australian Packaging Covenant has publicly named and praised 22 signatory companies for their efforts in achieving the goals of their APC action plans

Sealed Air has put its protective packaging sustems to the ultimate test, by using its wrap to protect an egg dropped to the ground by a skydiver.

GS1 is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the barcode, a technology standard adopted in 1973. The technology was first put to use, to scan a pack of gum, in 1974.

Beverages equipment specialist Krones may have found a new niche for its technology: bottling vampires' tipple of choice (after humans), True Blood.