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Robert Marguccio will step down as APPMA chair and board director at the association's AGM in October, citing increasing professional commitments after 20 years of service. Read more
Australian owned global packaging supplier Detpak has opened a multi-million dollar manufacturing facility in South Carolina, to produce paper-based packaging for quick service restaurant customers in the United States.
Orora has unveiled a new lightweight Riesling bottle that reduces glass weight by 21 per cent while maintaining the familiar profile and performance expected by Australian wine producers.
QLM Group has acquired the assets of coffee packaging specialist Roastar, including the distribution rights to the PrimeVent degassing valve system, strengthening its coffee packaging capability.
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Suntory Oceania reaches RTD milestone
21 Jul 2026Beverage giant Suntory Oceania has marked its first year of operations in Australia, in which it produced more than 252 million cans and bottles of ready to drink beverages.
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What to expect at foodpro 2026
15 Jul 2026Australia’s food and beverage manufacturing industry is converging on Melbourne this July for foodpro 2026, a leading trade event for processing, packaging and innovation.
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CDS Vic backs Foodbank container donation drive
20 Jul 2026Victorians can donate their 10-cent CDS refunds to Foodbank Victoria until mid-October, with every five eligible drink containers donated helping create one meal for people experiencing food insecurity.
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Countdown is on to the PIDA 2026 awards
16 Jul 2026The ANZ region's premier packaging awards, the PIDAs, will take place at Crown Casino in Melbourneon 28 July, during the foodpro trade show. Here's a reminder of who's in the running.
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Amcor expands Dongguan flexible packaging facility
15 Jul 2026Amcor is expanding its flexible packaging solutions facility in Dongguan, China, with a new 7000-square-metre manufacturing facility and automated warehouse.
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Epson brings on-demand printing to Foodpro
22 Jul 2026Epson will exhibit on-demand colour labelling and thermal printing technology for food and beverage manufacturers at Foodpro 2026, with systems designed to support compliance, reduce label waste and enable in-house label production.
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PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 17 July
17 Jul 2026In the news: Orora, Detpak, Simply No Knead, Trimatt Systems, Wedderburn, Ravenwood, PIDA, Foodpro
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PKN Podcast Ep 124: 2025 Year in Review
1 Dec 2025In this special Year in Review episode, PKN publisher Lindy Hughson and co-host Grant McHerron look back at the big packaging stories of 2025.
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.
De Bortoli Wines is restructuring its vineyard portfolio across four regions, removing underperforming blocks in the oversupplied Riverina while buying new land in the Yarra Valley and converting most of its King Valley plantings to Prosecco, Pinot Grigio and Sangiovese.
Ready-to-drink cocktail company, Curatif, has completed a crowd-sourced funding campaign of over $1.4 million through OnMarket, supported by 613 investors. The company is gearing up to launch overseas, with a fulfilment partner already in place to take its online model into the UK.
