IVE has made its move into fibre-based packaging, acquiring Melbourne-based packaging group JacPak in a $35m deal, as the first stage in a strategy to build a $150m-a-year folding carton business.

Spiral Foods, one of Australia’s leading suppliers and distributors of quality traditional foods, has turned to Great Wrap for its compostable pallet wrap to be introduced into its supply chain.

Close the Loop says it will once again have a solution instead of landfill for post-consumer soft plastics, as its new TonerPlas 2.0 processing line will be commissioned in December, at a new facility in Reservoir.

In what the company is calling an Australian-first, KitKat has increased its use of recycled plastic in the wrappers of select products to 90 per cent.

The board of Pact Group has told shareholders that Raphael Geminder’s takeover offer through Kin Group is too low, and advised them to reject the proposed deal.

The 2023 SPE ANZ Plastics and Circular Economy Conference concludes today, and has had a series of presentations from global experts, highlighting the leading position Australia is in.

Visy has opened its new $175 million corrugated box factory in Hemmant, Queensland, which it says is Australia’s most advanced, and has the capacity to produce one million boxes a day.

The APPMA membership has spoken: In what has proven to be the most competitive voting round to date for the highly prized seats on the board of Australia’s peak body for the packaging and processing machinery sector, Mark Emmett, Rym Kachouri and Mark Hollingsworth have retained their seats.

In an industry-first for the Australian pet food sector, pet food manufacturer Prime100 is rolling out its new premium dog food product line in Tetra Pak’s Tetra Recart packaging system, which has involved a multimillion-dollar upgrade to its Melbourne production facility that will pave the way for global expansion.

APCO shines the spotlight on finalists in its awards program that will recognise companies and individuals for their exceptional leadership and dedication to packaging sustainability.

Clarence Valley Metal Recyclers has been ordered to pay more than $149,000 for exploiting the Return and Earn recycling scheme by double counting almost three million containers.

On 25 September, the AFGC hosted the National Soft Plastics Summit in Canberra. Andrea Polson from Licella, who spoke on advanced chemical recycling on the expert panel, shared her observations with PKN.

Orora has successfully raised $1.345 billion from the markets, to enable it to acquire the French-based Saverglass speciality glass bottle manufacturing business for $2.15 billion.

Jamie Weller is the new managing director at industry supplier Kissel + Wolf, with long-term incumbent Greig Wood taking a new part-time role as general manager of metal decoration.

PKN’s latest issue for 2023 is hitting desks, and as ever, is packed full of the latest news and in-depth features, including our review of both foodpro 2023 and the AIP's 60th anniversary celebrations, as well as the latest developments in Labels & Labelling, Printing & Converting, Food & Beverage Packaging, and Contract Packaging.

AIPIA and WPO have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further their collaboration in sharing ideas on smart packaging and the science that underpins it.