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China’s leading dairy brand, Yili, is installing two Sidel aseptic complete PET packaging lines, including the Aseptic Combi Predis with its dry preform sterilisation technology.

Water brand Mount Franklin and Keep Australia Beautiful (KAB) are in a new partnership, created they say to educate, inspire and take action to enable better recycling opportunities for Australians.

Diversified packaging operation Pro-Pac saw its first half figures impacted by lower sales in the agricultural sector, higher costs, and adverse foreign currency movements, with its acting CEO saying the result is “well below our expectations.”

It is all systems go for the proposed new Australian Paper Energy from Waste (EfW) plant, with the paper manufacturer partnering with waste management business Suez to develop the $600m Maryvale Mill project.

Since its entry into the Middle East market in 2006, tna's business in the region has grown tenfold. To expand its reach, the Australian-owned company has just opened a new office and training facility in Dubai.

HP and Currie Group are hosting a two-day security printing HP Indigo Brand Protection Solution event, to highlight security printing options on the narrow web HP Indigo, as brand face increasing counterfeiting losses.

Shares in Pact Group plunged by 17 per cent to a record low on the company's half year figures, as executive chairman Raphael Geminder told investors, “We've not done a great job.”

Industry-leading OEMs are among the finalists in the Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association (APPMA) Awards of Excellence announced today.

Australian Vintage opened a new $10m bottling line at its Merbein packaging operation in Victoria this week. PKN spoke to COO Australasia North America, Cameron Ferguson about what this means for the business.

QLM Label Makers is using the innovative Mosaic software from HP to print one-of-a-kind labels on its HP Indigo, for its client Pukara Estate, the gourmet food manufacturer.

Australasia was the most profitable part of the Orora business in the first half of the year, delivering two thirds of the EBIT on 45 per cent of group sales.

Sealed Air Corporation will expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific with the purchase of MGM’s flexible packaging business in the Philippines.

Profit after tax at global packaging giant Amcor for the six months to December dropped by a smidgen to US328.5m from US$329.7m last year, on sales that rose slightly to US$4.55bn from US$4.5bn.

Almost all Australians are more likely to buy Australian-made products than imports, according to a new study from Roy Morgan.

Kodak’s global packaging summit and media analyst event in Verona, Italy, yesterday saw the imaging technology specialist launch its Creative Freedom campaign for packaging along with breakthrough product launches. PKN was there.

PKN brings you exclusive insights into the latest advances in smart packaging, IIoT and Industry 4.0 technology on show at AUSPACK 2019, Pact Group's End of Waste launch, global bioplastics market developments... and much more.