Software company Persequor has joined GS1 Australia as a strategic alliance partner, with Ron Volpe, a former Coles general manager, spearheading the move.

The September/October edition of PKN Packaging News is out now. Whether you read it online or in print, it's packed with the latest news and insight for the packaging industry.

Thankyou Group has launched its audacious #thankyoutotheworld plan, inviting P&G and Unilever to help reduce global poverty.

Woolworths has launched a recyclable paper meat tray across a selection of its Own Brand beef nationally in the first step in a plan to make all Woolworths’ Own Brand red meat trays recyclable.

The organisations behind the Australasian Recycling Label this week celebrated the label’s second anniversary and they are on the search for the 500th member.

Online packaging platform Packform has partnered with Footprint, a US-based material science engineering company that develops and manufactures plant-based materials for packaging.

The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) will be moving its 2020 AIP Australasian Packaging Conference to a virtual edition from 27 to 30 October.

PKN Packaging News and Food & Drink Business will host the third Women in Packaging Forum as a virtual event, in partnership with AIP, during the 2020 Australasian Packaging Conference in October.

Australian brand owner Natures Organics is launching Cove, a range of cleaning products that use reusable and refillable packaging. The range is packaged in reusable aluminium bottles, replenished with recyclable pouches.

Opal, along with other large industrial users of gas, said it welcomed the government’s commitment to restore Australia’s domestic gas supply and market pricing to globally competitive conditions.

A survey of senior leaders in Sydney demonstrates strong support for the economic and health response to Covid-19 by NSW government, but flags concern about the broader impact of the pandemic.

The inaugural National GS1 Traceability Advisory Group (NGTAG) meeting brought together 60 senior executives from government and industry to discuss a strategic master plan for Australia’s supply chain visibility.

The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell has called on the Victorian government to cover the costs associated with small business closures.

The interpack trade fair, rescheduled from May 2020 to February 2021, is still reportedly fully booked, and the new leader of interpack says a comprehensive hygiene plan will ensure its success.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, 52 per cent of Australians say they now have a higher preference for Australian-made products, according to new data from Roy Morgan.

Share prices of the major packaging companies are rising as the country enters recession on the sharpest fall in economic growth since World War II, as household consumption falls fast.