Amcor says its purchase of China's Jiangsu Shenda Group will transform it into eastern China's market leading packaging company.

Campbell's-Arnott's has launched a packaging tribute to one of the most iconic works of art of the 20th century, Warhol's famous painting of 32 Campbell's Soup cans.

Detmold will move its carton manufacturing operations to Asia as economic conditions hit its Australian manufacturing costs.

Dutch brewer Heineken is rolling out a new packaging design across Australia, emphasising its iconic red star logo.

Lion has extensively re-tooled its Lidcombe, Sydney, brewery to manufacture its new new Tap King draught beer dispenser, due in shops in July.

National packaging group Pro-Pac has expanded its presence in the food packaging industry with the purchase of Sydney's Eco Food Pack Australia.

South Australian pipi marketers and growers are hoping a new packaging research project will be able to extend the shelf life of their produce.

Jet Technologies has established an Indonesian subsidiary to pursure opportunities in that country's growing FMCG sector.

The AFGC has expressed strong reservations on the decision by Australian health ministers to approve a star rating system for food labelling.

Australian federal and state health ministers have approved a new star rating system for food nutritional labelling.

The Australian Packaging Covenant will step up its efforts to encourage signatories to exceed their sustainability targets in the coming year.

Pharmacist and inventor of the Webster-pak system of medication packaging, Gerard Stevens, has been named a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia.

The PKN annual Shelf Shout Awards for packaging design gave the judging panel a tough challenge to separate the winners from the runners-up.

Brisbane contract manufacturing and packaging company, National ProPack, has been acquired by TSI Pharmaceuticals, part of the global TSI Health Sciences group.

Australian label converters joined their peers from the South East Asian region at the recent Label Summit Indonesia in Bali.

Victoria-based Result Packaging has formed a partnership to distribute US-based Numina Group warehousing and picking technology in Australia and New Zealand.