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The AIP and the APPMA will be holding the inaugural Packaging & Processing Innovation Design Awards (PIDA) alongside AUSPACK on 8 March.

The PIDA Awards are designed to recognise companies and individuals making a significant difference in their field.

It is the exclusive awards program for all Australian entries into the prestigious WorldStar Packaging Awards.

The 2017 Winners will be announced during the event, which will be held at the Novotel in Sydney Olympic Park.

The PIDA Awards are sponsored by Midway Metals, NCI Packaging, SMC, Agility, Fuji Xerox, Packaging Council of NZ, Wellman Packaging, NHP, UPM Raflatac, Auspouch, EcodEX, Empauer, ESKO and PKN Packaging News.

You can buy tickets to the event here.

Food & Drink Business

Gold Coast brewery, Black Hops, has entered administration for the second time, with an urgent sale campaign underway for the business.

In the final chapter of court action regarding the 2020 collapse of Freedom Foods Group, the Federal Court has found former managing director and CEO, Rory Macleod, breached his duties as a director and officer, and failed to take all reasonable steps to secure the company’s compliance with its financial reporting obligations.

Australia’s food and beverage manufacturing industry is converging on Melbourne this week for foodpro 2026, the country’s leading trade event for processing, packaging and innovation. Held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) from 26-29 July, foodpro 2026 will be opened at 10am on Sunday 26 July by Victorian Minister for Industry and Advanced Manufacturing and Minister for Skills and TAFE, Colin Brooks.