Global flexible packaging and lidding films supplier, KM Packaging, has confirmed the appointment of Frances Busby in the role of managing director.

Melbourne-based sustainable packaging leader, Pact Group, has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent in Australia and New Zealand by 2030.

Opal Group is making a major investment in modern manufacturing in regional Victoria, with the construction of a high speed manufacturing facility for corrugated cardboard packaging.

PKN July-August reviews the recent Australasian PIDAs and PacPrint 2022, and covers the latest news from the packaging industry, the positive changes made, the innovations launched. This issue shines the spotlight on snack and convenience packaging, digital print for packaging, and smart factories.

Close the Loop has bought thermal paper supplier and sustainable paper products group, Alliance Paper, for a purchase price of $1, and an investment in working capital of approximately $4.5 million.

In a major step forward for Pact Group’s onshore circular plastic initiatives, the company will partner with Woolworths Group to supply recycled packaging for products in the retailer's own brand range.

Melbourne-based material sciences startup Great Wrap has landed international investment to innovate materials and scale up production of its upcycled compostable stretch wrap for home and industrial use.

APCO has launched the ANZPAC Roadmap to 2025, showing the way forward to achieving plastic targets. "If we fail to act, by 2040, the volume of plastic on the market will double, the annual volume of plastic entering the ocean will almost triple, and ocean plastic stocks will quadruple."

APCO has partnered with the New Zealand Food & Grocery Council, which will support NZ businesses to adopt the Australasian Recycling Label (ARL).

The Australasian Packaging Innovation & Designs Awards (PIDAs) were announced today at a hybrid event, the in-person part in Gold Coast during Foodtech Queensland. The stars of the ANZ packaging industry were dusted in gold, with Caps & Closures winning the most awards overall.

UPM Raflatac's Dr Carol Kilcullen-Lawrence has won the 2022 PIDA Industry Packaging Professional of the Year award.

The Andrews Labor government in Victoria is launching a new government body to support the transformation of the state’s waste and recycling systems.

Julia Kay, co-founder of compostable cling wrap and pallet wrap manufacturer Great Wrap, has been named Young Victorian of the Year by the Victoria Day Council.

At the Dscoop forum at PacPrint, Little Bang Brewing Company’s founder Ryan Davidson gave a lively presentation on the power and possibility of digital print for brand owners.

Close the Loop Group has called for urgent industry-wide solutions to address the plastic waste crisis, in light of the federal government’s second round of plastics export bans that came into effect on 1 July.

In a move to reshore manufacturing and create local jobs, Jamestrong Packaging is set to expand its Taree, NSW facility with a new aluminium casting line to produce slugs used to make aerosol cans.