Nestle's Maggi brand is undergoing a positive packaging change to its iconic cup noodles with the launch of Maggi mug noodles, which brings an 83% reduction in plastic by simply removing the cup.

PKN's sister title, Food & Drink Business, has launched its inaugural industry excellence awards and is inviting brand owners and packaging converters to enter innovations.

Tackling the huge environmental cost of food waste has just been given a boost, with international climate action NGO WRAP recently receiving $15m additional funding from the Ballmer Group.

A major change to the packaging of popular Australian confectionery brand Allen's is on its way, with a makeover seeing the reduction in plastic it uses equivalent of the weight of 4.6 million Snakes Alive lollies.

Packaging solutions company Detpak has released the Vanguard range of compostable, no-added PFAS sugarcane plates, bowls and containers, in what the company claims is an Australian market first.

Tapping into the latest food trend, provenance, free-range poultry producer The Free Ranger has launched new packaging and a marketing campaign dedicated to sharing the stories of its chickens.

A partnership between Detpak and Subway aims to remove 26 garbage trucks full of plastic from the environment each year through the design of a new fibre-based catering platter.

Mars Food & Nutrition Australia has collaborated with Wellman Packaging to evolve its MasterFoods squeezy sauce bottles towards a more sustainable future.

Rivalea, part of JBS Australia’s Pork Division, has been recognised as the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation’s 2023 Annual Industry Sector award winner in Agriculture and Nurseries for its sustainable packaging.

Major international and local equipment suppliers were behind the successful plant fitout for Beak & Johnston's new $110 million pastry and ready meals production facility. The company has installed technology from the likes of BVT, G Mondini, HMPS, JBT Corporation, Schubert, and Ulma.

Foodtech Packtech enjoyed a triumphant return in its first showing since Covid, with many Australian companies – including members of APPMA, the packaging and processing industry's peak organisation – crossing the ditch to support their business operations in New Zealand.

PKN national sales manager Sharon Amos was on the packaging beat at Foodtech Packtech in NZ this week, gathering information and images to allow the PKN team to compile part one of our report.

Meat processor MAP WA says the $35 million investment at its Bibra Lake facility has doubled its capacity and enabled the installation of the latest thermoforming technology from Multivac to reduce packaging waste.

Jet Technologies is expanding its bag-in-box packaging offering and expertise, which it says is in response to double-digit growth in demand from Australian food and beverage companies.

SPC has partnered with Foodbank to supply pantry staples, producing 230,000 cans of spaghetti and tomatoes at the SPC Factory in Shepparton, with the support of supply partners Visy and Rinoldi.