Multipack has invested in a brand new food processing and packing facility to complement its growing FMCG and retail packaging business. The new facility, based in Sydney's suburb of Ingleburn, is an upgrade of the company's existing food ...
Tags: Contract Packer, FMCG Business, packaging
Crowd-sourced brands are the 'hot young things' of industry. PKN spoke to Nexba's Drew Bilbe and Troy Douglas about a line of iced teas based on the feedback of Facebook fans, friends and street artists. The idea for a brand of ice ...
Tags: iced teas, stand-out packaging
Dutch materials handling automation company Vanderlande has experienced strong growth in Australia, requiring a move to new, larger premises. Vanderlande’s specialities are baggage handling systems for airports, and sorting ...
Earlier this year, I blogged about the excitement in China generated by the news that its Dalian Wanda Group planned to invest $1.09 billion to build and operate a luxury hotel in London. At the time of their announcement (made in the ...
Shrink hooding, stretch wrapping and stretch hooding are emerging as the most effective palletising packaging techniques on the market, and the Beumer Group is offering solutions in these areas. Stretch hooding has been efficient in ...
Tags: stretch wrapping, stretch hooding
Organic health food product CO YO has won a Retailers’ Choice Award while celebrating new packaging at the Naturally Good Expo in Sydney. Picking up the award for Best Organic Food Product, founders Henry and Sandra Gosling have ...
Tags: Coconut Yoghurt, Labelling
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has welcomed the release Infrastructure Australia (IA) Audit Report, describing it as a timely and directional insight into Australia’s infrastructure requirements. The inquiry by the ...
Australian establishment Lion has opened its expanded and upgraded specialty cheese manufacturing facility - The Heritage - in Burnie, Tasmania, which is said to be the largest in the Southern hemisphere. The specialty cheese facility ...
Tags: Specialty Cheese, Lion
Dr Greg A. Constable of Australia has been declared the winner of 2015 the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) researcher of the year, the committee said on its website. The ICAC awards the researcher a shield, an honorarium of ...
Tags: cotton industry, cotton production
Dematic helped to achieve a 15% increase in production at Parmalat Lidcombe and will now build a high bay warehouse for Smith’s Snackfood. PepsiCo’s Australian snacks division, The Smith’s Snackfood Company, has given ...
Tags: Australian Food, Australian snacks
In late March, on the 10 hectare former airstrip at the Gatton campus of The University of Queensland in Brisbane St Lucia, the 3.275MW Gatton Solar Research Facility (the state's largest solar array) was officially opened by Industry and ...
Tags: First Solar, Queensland, PV System
Australian salmon company Tassal Group Limited (Tassal) has responded to speculation in the media that a potential acquisition of De Costi Seafoods, one of the largest names at the Sydney Fish Market, has been completed, saying this is not ...
Tags: Costi Seafoods, Tassal Group
Australian supermarket chain Coles is planning to invest in farms to extend the selling seasons of popular fruits and vegetables. Coles managing director John Durkan said that the company wants to make more investments to ensure the ...
Tags: Coles, popular fruits, vegetables
IBM has signed a multimillion-dollar agreement with Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) to move its Asia Pacific customer planning and relationship management systems to the IBM Cloud. Hosting the workloads in IBM’s two SoftLayer cloud centres in ...
Tags: IBM, Coca-Cola Amatil, IBM Cloud
SumoSalad creates concept shop for a ethical local food consumer demographic Australian salad bar group SumoSalad has opened the doors to its first ‘Green Label’ concept store. SumoSalad has grown quickly into a successful ...