PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 28 July

In the news: Jamestrong, UNSW SMaRT, Pact Group, Woolworths, Visy, foodpro, Tetra Pak, Detpak, Cospak, FlexoPack, Labelmakers, Sprite, Coca-Cola Australia, Coopers Brewery, Cowan Australia, HP Indigo, Currie Group, Birdstone Collective, Spicers, Carbon8, Interpack, APPMA.

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Food & Drink Business

Brisbane-based food technology company Just Meat Protein has closed an oversubscribed $1.8 million seed round, with Inghams Group taking a 10 per cent stake.

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has partnered with Thailand’s Food Innopolis and the Research University Network (RUN) to launch the new Thailand-Australia Venture Exchange Program. Applications are now open, and close 31 July.

Sydney deep tech venture ALBON is pitching a low-energy, algae-based system to dairy, meat, rendering and other food processing operations facing rising water costs and tightening discharge rules. It has just been named as one of the Cicada x Tech23 2026 cohort.