In a bid to strengthen its position in the Southeast Asia labels market, Constantia Flexibles Group has acquired Australian packaging company Pemara Labels Group. The parties agreed not to disclose any financial details and the transaction ...
Australian packaging company Amcor will showcase AmLite, the company’s latest metal-free packaging technology that is capable of creating a lightweight, transparent material, at PackExpo in Las Vegas. Amcor used a micro-thin ...
Jurlique has switched to using plastic tube, started lightweighting its glass packaging, and driven a re-use system which saves 1000 shippers a year. PKN reports on the skin care company's latest initiatives. Since the Jurlique brand was ...
PACK EXPO will celebrate its 20th year this September as it descends on the Las Vegas Convention Centre. Show owner and producer PMMI expects visitor attendance to edge close to 30,000, with over 2000 exhibitors sharing their innovations. ...
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Want to know more about retailers' private label innovation? And how changing consumer purchasing behaviours will impact retailing? And what part will packaging play to drive growth? All these questions and more will be answered at the ...
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As the packaging industry is moving from the Australian Packaging Covenant into the next generation of Government/Industry agreement, the Packaging Council of Australia (PCA) is working on behalf of its membership to negotiate the best way ...
Tags: innovative packaging, packaging machine, Packaging Design Awards
While increased offshoring of manufacturing might be hurting the packaging supply chain, there is still “enormous potential growth in the packaging sector both sides of the Tasman”. This is the view of Greg Chapman, managing ...
Australian packaging company Orora has secured a new supply agreement with dairy group Fonterra where the former will supply multi-walled dairy bags to Fonterra’s New Zealand operations. Orora will also construct a AU$20m ($15.25m) ...
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Philippines-based food, beverage and packaging company San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has acquired Australia’s Vinocor for an undisclosed amount. Vinocor specialises in supplying wine bottle closures and customised bottles in ...
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An alliance of Australia’s beverage manufacturers has responded to speculation that New South Wales could introduce a Container Deposit Scheme for beverage packaging, saying recent research has shown such schemes are “many times ...
Linpac calls the UK home. But it has had a manufacturing site in Bunbury, Perth since 2013 and in 2015 it will have a new one in Melbourne. With a site on both the east and west sides of Australia, Linpac intends to supply the latest design ...
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The year is drawing to a close but the number of exhibitors signing up for AUSPACK 2015 is still growing. According to Luke Kasprzak, portfolio director – industrial division, exhibition and trade fairs, “AUSPACK 2015 is ...
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Packaging and waste management projects do not always begin with the impulse to improve sustainability. What the PCA demonstrates in its new resource, The Business Case for Packaging Sustainability is that there are benefits in considering ...
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A product never achieved before presented in a packaging system never thought of before. No wonder Gourmet Garden has triumphed at the checkout and at this year’s packaging awards. Its squeezable herb stir-in pastes made the name ...
Good design and innovation in packaging are what the Packaging Council of Australia’s awards program - the Australian Packaging Design Awards - recognises. But more than that, it applauds the successful execution and implementation of ...
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