APPEX Video: Detpak's Mark Rohrlach

In this APPEX 2024 video interview, Mark Rohrlach, regional manager for Australasia at Detpak, speaks with Lindy Hughson about the paper-based innovation on display, including grape bags adopted by Coles and the award-winning kerbside recyclable paper bag for potatoes.

Check out the video below:

Food & Drink Business

Leading wholesaler and distributor, Metcash, has awarded its top-performing supply partners of the past year at its 2026 Food Supplier of the Year Awards, with Asahi Beverages taking home the top award.

Suntory Oceania has unveiled a new $13 million warehouse at its Auckland manufacturing site in Wiri, the latest step in the $3 billion multi-beverage partnership across the company’s Australian and New Zealand premium spirits and non-alcohol segments.

CCEP is extending Australia’s recycling capability into the Pacific, launching a cross-border PET recovery program that brings community-collected plastic into local processing streams to produce food-grade rPET.