EXCLUSIVE: Part two of the prestigious Packaging Innovation & Design Awards (PIDA) was presented via a virtual ceremony today, with the awards announced across three Packaging Design of the Year and two Professional of the Year categories.

The Young Packaging Professional of the Year award provides incentive and recognition to young professionals currently working in and seeking to pursue a career in the ANZ packaging industry.

EXCLUSIVE: Part one of the prestigious Packaging Innovation & Design Awards was presented via a virtual ceremony today, with the company awards announced across six Packaging Design of the Year categories: Food; Beverage; Health, Beauty & Wellness; Domestic & Household; Labelling & Decoration, and Outside the Box.

PKN’s May-June issue, sporting a stunning cover that showcases embossing and foiling at its finest, is a bumper edition demonstrating how the packaging industry is stepping up sustainability action in innovation and design, food packaging, and pack and label printing.

Orora will be investing $19 million, including $8 million in government grant funding, to build an advanced glass beneficiation plant at its Gawler glass packaging site in South Australia.

With the recent signing on of Aldi, Coles and Woolworths to the ANZPAC Plastics Pact, the initiative takes a step closer to radically reducing the amount of plastic used on our shelves.

The ANZPAC Plastics Pact has officially launched, uniting businesses, NGOs, and governments across the plastics supply chain behind a series of ambitious 2025 targets to eliminate plastic waste.

EXCLUSIVE: In a triumph for smart packaging, flexo and digital printing, and promotional marketing, Hungry Jack's has launched the biggest ever on-pack campaign, delivered by a cross-industry collaboration between Result Group, TLC Marketing, Multi-color Corporation, Detpak and Hungry Jack's.

The government went big on the 2021-22 budget, with packaging businesses among those set to benefit from the treasurer’s $75bn recovery strategy.

Paper and board packaging manufacturer Detpak has partnered with US-based Eco-Products to bring its range of compostable foodservice packaging to Australia and New Zealand.

In an Australian-first, Colgate-Palmolive has launched a kerbside recyclable tube for its Colgate Smile for Good toothpaste range, and is making its packaging technology available to all competitors.

Packaging giant Amcor has raised its full year profits outlook, as third quarter figures all trend upwards, and its free cashflow tops US$1bn.

At an event in Sydney this week, industry and academia involved in the smart sensing project for HDPE recycling shared progress and key findings of the NSW government backed initiative.

Global leader in consumer packaging, Amcor, has made a strategic investment in ePac Flexible Packaging, a leader in the high quality, short run length digital printing segment for flexible packaging.

Planet Protector Packaging (PPP) has signed a nationwide partnership with ASX-listed Pro-Pac Packaging (PPG) as exclusive Australian distributor for the Woolpack range of cold chain packaging solutions.

Australis Group has acquired Brisbane-based conveyor and stainless-steel fabricator, Precision Stainless Systems, expanding the operations of the Australian engineering concern run by the Gustafson brothers.