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The Australian and New Zealand businesses of Pro-Pac Packaging (PPG), excluding Perfection Packaging, have been sold to Consolidated Packaging Australia, a subsidiary of Knoxcorp, the privately owned Australian investment company headed by Jim Knox. Read more
Esko is hosting an open house at the end of the month, designed to highlight how its innovations are enabling label and flexo printers to meet modern day challenges.
UK supermarket giant Waitrose is launching a packaging-free shopping experiment, with one of its flagship stores supplying a host of food, drink and household products without packaging.
Amcor and Bemis are set to merge on Tuesday 11 June after receiving antitrust clearance in the US and approval from the Australian Federal Court.
Three packaging companies have been recognised as “Partners for Growth” at Coca-Cola Amatil’s annual awards.
Ball & Doggett's Evening of Rubbish Talks delivered inspiration to the crowd of designers and graphic media professionals who gathered at The Distillery in Sydney. PKN was there.
Malaysia will send up to 100 tonnes of waste back to Australia after its government deemed the waste too contaminated to recycle.
Market intelligence agency Mintel says there are four major trends impacting packaging, which it says have major implications for consumers, brands, and manufacturers.
Bobst is celebrating after its innovative Digital Inspection Table was named winner in the Best Inspection System category at the 2019 European Digital Press Association (EDP) Awards.
The falling Aussie dollar will see prices of carton, board and paper rise over the next month or two, likely by around four per cent.
Australians were among those honoured at the gala WorldStar Packaging Awards 2019 event attended by 350 international guests in Prague, Czech Republic, and hosted by the World Packaging Organisation earlier this month.
Landa chief executive Yishai Amir says the company is looking at installing half a dozen of its Nano presses in Australia within the next three years, two of them for carton printing and two for flexible package printing.
Recommendations from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to the federal government to broaden the GST on pre-prepared and packaged meals have been rejected by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and finance minister Matthias Cormann.
Unpacking the opportunity that is packaging print: the Print21 + PKN LIVE annual conference for the packaging print community will take place on 12 August in Sydney. With strong industry support and a stellar line-up of speakers and panellists, the event is shaping up to be a calendar highlight this year.
Western Australia's Hunt and Brew can now serve its cold brew coffee products Australia-wide after turning to Jet Technologies for a bespoke filling solution to extend product shelf life in stores and in transit.
The emergence of direct-to-package and direct-to-container printing is shaping up as a major threat to traditional label printing; however, for now label printing is still on the rise, to the tune of 4.4 per cent a year.
Ahead of Saturday’s election, the Boomerang Alliance has called for more action on plastic pollution from the major parties.