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The PKN 60 Years Special features a section of company profiles that chronical the stories of some of the major organisations in our industry.

A highlight from the section is Jet Technologies’ celebration of its 40th anniversary of its founding by Albert Malki after emigrating from Italy. Heat and Control marked its 70 year milestone. Also, you can read the story of the rise of Currie Group over the past 70 years.

The other organisations in the section include

Food & Drink Business

Irish materials handling company, Combilift, has marked being in Australia for 21 years, with co-founder and MD, Martin McVicar, in Melbourne to celebrate the milestone with the local team.

According to Australia’s 2023-24 Gender Equality Scorecard, there is still a “sizeable and pervasive” total remuneration gender pay gap of almost 22 per cent. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) research shows that while the food and beverage manufacturing industry has started reducing this gap on paper, the uneven composition of its workforce has an impact.

Australia’s first social enterprise bakery, The Bread & Butter Project, has graduated its latest group of bakers, with its largest ever cohort marking the program’s 100th graduate.