Packaging giant Amcor saw its Australian flexibles business achieve “strong growth” in the first quarter of the new financial year, as the company achieved positive results all round, bar China.

Local startup Samsara Eco has raised $54 million in a Series A funding to scale infinite recycling, and plans to build its first plastic recycling facility and roll out its enzymatically-recycled packaging in Woolworths stores in 2023.

With one week to go, the Print21+PKN LIVE event, which will see brands, designers and printers come together to understand opportunities in digitally printed packaging, has confirmed the panel.

In an Australian first, plastics food packaging manufacturer Genfac Plastics has become the inaugural APCO signatory to emboss the ARL logo on its take-away food packaging range.

A new education campaign has launched to raise awareness among small businesses about the benefits of adopting the ARL and taking action to improve the sustainability of their packaging.

Visy has turned the sod on its new $500m glass recycling and remanufacturing factory in Qld, which will recycle up to 200,000 tonnes of glass bottles annually to produce one billion bottles a year.

OjiFS, Australasian producer of market pulp, paper and fibre-based packaging, has highlighted its sustainability efforts and environmental credentials during a virtual tour for AIP members.

Coles will be Australia’s first major retailer to offer drone delivery directly from stores to customers' homes, launching a pilot service in SE Qld with global on-demand drone delivery company, Wing.

Result Group has launched EcoMark Natural Branding, a new laser system for non-contact coding onto the skin of fruit and veg, set to reinvent coding and labelling of single items in the fresh produce aisle.

During Pack Expo International in Chicago this week, World Packaging Organisation president Pierre Pienaar was inducted into the Hall of Fame Class of 2022.

APCO has welcomed commitments made by Aus environment ministers to address environmental challenges facing the country.

The Close the Loop take-back scheme for used HP consumables in Australia and New Zealand is being trialled with HP Indigo in China, and if successful will be implemented in multiple Asian countries.

At the Print21 + PKN LIVE forum on 9 November in Melbourne, brand owners and printers will collaborate to present case studies to show the game-changing ability of digital print for packaging. Have you booked your ticket yet?

The AIPIA is offering two unmissable opportunities to get connected to the latest developments in active and intelligent packaging technologies and services.

Mountain Culture brewery, one of the fastest growing craft breweries in Australia, has installed a Krones Craftmate C canning line – the 100th of its kind installed globally – at its new brewpub and brewery in Emu Plains.

The results of the latest Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association (APPMA) director election are in, seeing the successful re-nomination of Matthews’ Mark Dingley, ABB’s Peter Bradbury and Inox’s Robert Becher to the board during the association's recent Annual General Meeting.