PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 31 March

In the news: AIP '2025 and Beyond' conference, APCO chief on plastics, ACCC proposes soft plastic extension, Woolworths wins Banksia gold, Yates and OF Packaging design 60% rPE pouch, Amcor works with Nfinite Nanotechnology on barrier properties, SMC's Wayne Driver to retire.

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Food & Drink Business

Wine Australia is running a coordinated program of trade, education and promotional activity across the Asia Pacific, backed by federal government funding, as the sector works to rebuild demand in China and diversify into Southeast Asia.

Australian beef exporters face a 55 per cent tariff on shipments to China for the rest of 2026 after the country exhausted its annual safeguard quota in under six months, removing tariff-free access to one of the sector’s largest markets.

A Western Australian truffle grower says it has unearthed the state’s first cultivated white truffle, opening a potential new product line for a region that already supplies the bulk of the Southern Hemisphere’s black truffle.