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Industry leaders have renewed calls for national packaging reform, warning that Australia's manufacturing resilience, recycling investment and sovereign capability remain vulnerable without policy action to create demand for locally recycled content and provide a more level competitive playing field. Read more
Australia's emerging soft plastics recycling infrastructure is ready to process significantly more material, according to Soft Plastic Stewardship Australia, which has launched a three-month campaign aimed at boosting consumer returns and strengthening domestic supply of recycled resin.
PKN’s latest print issue is hitting desks and landing in inboxes, bringing readers up to speed with the people, technologies and innovations shaping packaging, printing and processing across Australia and beyond.
Mars has opened $112.6 million Wodonga pet food facility, bringing autonomous mobile robots, AI-enabled planning tools and advanced packaging automation into one of Australia's largest new food manufacturing investments.
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Quips builds alcohol pouch-filling capability
18 Jun 2026Sydney startup Quips has established what it says is Australia's first alcohol pouch-filling operation, investing in specialised manufacturing capability to produce RTDs in a resealable spouted pouch format.
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Propak, Mitolo unveil mono-material onion pack
18 Jun 2026Propak Industries has launched a new mono-material onion bag solution, developed, tested and validated with Mitolo Family Farms, and designed to improve recyclability.
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25 Jun 2026
Holy Carp's plastic-free soy sauce dispenser has secured its first coordinated NSW precinct rollout, with Manly foodservice businesses replacing conventional plastic soy fish throughout July.
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Parallax leads Topper’s Mountain brand refresh
16 Jun 2026Topper’s Mountain has introduced a new brand identity and restructured its small-batch portfolio, with packaging designed by Adelaide-based Parallax and labels printed by Label Avenue.
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Innovia, PureCycle make 40% PCR BOPP film
15 Jun 2026Innovia Films and PureCycle have produced and trialled white, cavitated BOPP film containing more than 40 per cent post-consumer recycled content using PureCycle’s PureFive Choice resin.
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Haver & Boecker marks 20 years of Adams
16 Jun 2026Packing facilities in the building materials, food and chemical sectors have used Haver & Boecker and Adams technology for two decades, to improve product protection, cleanliness and energy efficiency.
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PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 19 June
19 Jun 2026In the news: Mars Petcare, Quips, Cleanaway, Propak Industries, National EPA, GECA, ACOR, Aperol
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PKN Podcast Ep 124: 2025 Year in Review
1 Dec 2025In this special Year in Review episode, PKN publisher Lindy Hughson and co-host Grant McHerron look back at the big packaging stories of 2025.
Wine Australia is running a coordinated program of trade, education and promotional activity across the Asia Pacific, backed by federal government funding, as the sector works to rebuild demand in China and diversify into Southeast Asia.
Australian beef exporters face a 55 per cent tariff on shipments to China for the rest of 2026 after the country exhausted its annual safeguard quota in under six months, removing tariff-free access to one of the sector’s largest markets.
A Western Australian truffle grower says it has unearthed the state’s first cultivated white truffle, opening a potential new product line for a region that already supplies the bulk of the Southern Hemisphere’s black truffle.
