Zipform Packaging has opened its new $8m manufacturing facility in Dandenong, Victoria, for linear formed composite packaging. The opening ceremony was attended by customers, suppliers and key industry stakeholders. PKN was there.

Arnott’s has officially commissioned its $65m automated distribution centre in Western Sydney. With almost 4x previous capacity and comprehensive automation, efficiencies have already been unlocked.

End-to-end collection and recycling operation Close the Loop Group achieved soaring revenue in the 2023 financial year, on the back of strong organic growth, and its latest acquisitions.

Visy unveiled a major $42.5 million upgrade to its paper recycling campus in Coolaroo, with Victorian premier Daniel Andrews and federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek in attendance.

Orora’s $110m investment in expanding its aluminium can manufacturing capability at its Dandenong and Ballarat plants was part-funded by a grant from the Victorian Government, whose ministers toured the new multi-size can facility this week.

The country's biggest print operation, IVE, is committed to entering the packaging market, and is zeroing in on the higher margin, shorter run, folding cartons segment, and the flexibles packaging segment.

APCO's interactive forums around the country to engage industry on a packaging reset have been booked out, with strong support for recycled content targets and mandatory participation in EPR schemes.

Pro-Pac Packaging CEO John Cerini says the company’s period of rationalisation of sites, plant and services is over, with the business now positioned to focus on growing its profits.

The AFGC’s latest State of Industry report shows years of pandemic, supply chain, weather, and inflationary impacts took a toll on the food and grocery manufacturing sector in the2021-22 reporting period.

Higher can volumes drove double digit growth in Australia for Orora, supported by an improved product mix and cost inflation recoveries, and fuelled by capacity expansion with new can-making facilities coming on stream.

Shoppers fighting cost of living pressures by buying in bulk caused an 11 per cent downturn in profits at packaging giant Amcor, on revenues that were largely unchanged from last year.

Licella has made changes to strengthen and expand its senior leadership team, as it focuses on the global commercialisation of its pioneering Cat-HTR advanced recycling technology.

Pact Group will pay down a substantial chunk of its half a billion dollar debt by selling half of its Crate Pooling business to global infrastructure manager Morrison & Co.

Pact Group saw its full year revenue rise by six per cent to $1.95bn, but ended the year $7m in the red, as it booked a $53m non-cash impairment on expected plant replacement.

Amcor has entered into an agreement to acquire Indian flexible packaging producer Phoenix Flexibles, with scalable capacity potential, expanding its capacity in the high-growth Indian market.

Two major players in the Australian packaging value chain, Amcor and Mondelez, have signed investment agreements that will enable Licella to accelerate construction of its advanced recycling facility in Altona North, Melbourne.