APCO, in partnership with Dairy Australia and the ADPF, has published a sustainable packaging roadmap for the dairy industry in a bid to fuel the sector’s 2025 National Packaging Targets.

For the ninth year running, Pact Group has made the list as one of Australia and New Zealand’s Most Innovative Companies, recognised this year for its world-first freeway noisewalls made from up to 75 per cent recycled plastic.

The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) has developed the new Recycled Content Label Program, which is designed to support the increased use of recycled content in packaging.

Pact Group is partnering with Goodman Fielder’s Meadow Fresh brand to launch the first recycled HDPE milk bottle in New Zealand, with 30% recycled content saving 250 tonnes of virgin plastic a year.

L’Occitane Australia is opening a world-first “green store” in Sydney today, with waste reduction and sustainability central to the design. A refill station for L'Occitane's Forever Bottles encourages packaging re-use.

The APPMA has announced its 2021-22 Board, with Rosanne Jessop of Pilz Automation and Tony Bowyer of Automation & Control Systems joining the executive team.

As e-commerce retailing continues to soar, a world-first shopping centre drone delivery service is taking off in Queensland, featuring specially designed secondary packaging to carry food and health products safely to the doorsteps of consumers.

The Victorian government has given $2.1m in grants to ten research organisations with the aim of creating new products that can use recycled materials including plastic, paper, glass, cardboard and tyres.

Packaging businesses are facing increased costs as soaring shipping charges send prices of many consumables, including board and labelstock, up again.

Work Safe Victoria has cleared food packaging operation SPC of any concerns that it had not properly consulted with its staff in its Covid-19 vaccine mandate consultation process.

Interest in the sustainability of labels and the printing and converting processes that produce them is clearly high, judging by the well attended webinar on the topic hosted yesterday by the AIP.

As part of a continuous upgrade programme, Cleanaway's Laverton Material Recovery Facility (MRF) centre in Melbourne will see $1 million invested in new equipment to increase recycling of plastic.

Woolworths Group is helping new Australian plastic recycling startup Samsara bring the potential of infinite recycling to life, and to its supermarkets.

Australia’s largest distributor of printable materials and consumables, Ball & Doggett, is strengthening its leadership team, with Leigh Hooper, Rob Brussolo and Paul Bartolo all taking new senior roles.

In a world-first for Cadbury, brand owner Mondelēz International is sourcing recycled plastic from Taghleef Industries for flexible wrappers to be printed and converted by Amcor. The new packaging, with 30% recycled content, will be on shelf in Australia from September next year.

There is much on offer in the latest issue of PKN, with 84 action-packed pages covering the latest industry news, trends and developments, and every aspect of packaging that impacts the full value chain, from sustainability, to design, innovation and industry leadership.