The PVCA is running a special webinar today which will focus entirely on the government's new $1500 employee wages assistance package.

Our Packaging Future, the new strategic framework outlining how Australia will deliver the 2025 National Packaging Targets launched yesterday and has been hailed by industry as the first holistic and integrated perspective of Australia's packaging ecosystem.

Story updated 6 April: Medical mask manufacturer, Med-Con, has to step up production amid the Covid-19 crisis, and has contracted Foodmach to assist in expanding manufacturing capacity.

ProPak Asia, the major processing and packaging event for the continent, has been postponed in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

PKN's March-April print issue is out, packed with latest news and analysis, with special features covering sustainability, trends, technology, innovation and design and including our exclusive Machinery Matters supplement.

The Australian government has instituted a raft of measures to help businesses – particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – weather the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Businesses around the world are gearing up to confront the period of uncertainty and difficulty that the coronavirus pandemic has brought.

Nippon Paper Industries has received approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board to go ahead with the acquisition of Orora’s Australasian Fibre Business.

And now for some much needed good news: Australasia's peak packaging awards programme – the Packaging Innovation and Design Awards – has released its highly anticipated list of company and individual finalists across eight categories, representing the cream of the crop in packaging design innovation and industry contribution for 2020.

Packaging demand across the world reached US$917.1bn in 2019 and is expected to grow in the coming four years, according to the latest data from industry analyst Smithers.

Packaging producer Ecolean and its customers in the Chinese dairy sector are lending a helping hand in China during the coronavirus pandemic, donating goods to hospitals and communities.

Pact Group is joining the fight against the Coronavirus by starting up production of hand sanitiser, with operations across four of its Sydney facilities. Production is expected to be in full swing by mid-April.

Another one bites the dust – the Australasian Waste & Recycling Expo (AWRE) will no longer take place as scheduled, event organisers announced recently.

Eleven ANZ companies were set to receive WorldStar awards for packaging innovation at a gala ceremony during interpack. In line with other coronavirus-related event changes, the World Packaging Organisation has cancelled the event.

Australian industry events are falling like dominoes as the coronavirus pandemic gallops through our communities. The latest casualty is foodpro 2020, scheduled for 5-8 July and now postoned to 2021, with no fixed date as yet.

Any business with a turnover of up to $500m can take advantage of the government's new $150,000 instant asset write down on newly purchased plant and equipment, but they must do so by the end of June.