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Orora Purchases Two EFI Nozomi C18000 Corrugated Packaging Presses

Feb 28, 2018

Australian packaging firm Orora has purchased two EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED inkjet corrugated packaging presses to boost its production capabilities. The purchase is a part of an agreement signed by Orora with EFI to expand global ...

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Amcor Develops New Pet Bottle for Nature's Promise Hand Soap Brand

Feb 8, 2018

Australian packaging firm Amcor has developed a new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle for Nature’s Promise hand soap brand. The new 12oz bottle, which contains 50% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content, has been developed in ...

Tags: Amcor, packaging, Hand Soap

UK and Australian Packaging Firms Launch Perfectseal Package

Dec 13, 2016

UK-based Packaging Automation and Australian firm Perfect Automation have launched Perfectseal package, in a bid to provide better services for the customers. Perfectseal provides a package, including machine, packaging and service ...

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Pact Group Designs New Milk Bottle for Goodman Fielder's Meadow Fresh Brand

Nov 15, 2016

Alto, a subsidiary of Australian packaging company Pact Group, has designed a new bottle for Goodman Fielder’s Meadow Fresh brand for their permeate free milk range. Developed by collaborating with Goodman Fielder’s Meadow ...

Tags: Milk Bottle, Meadow Fresh

Amcor Acquires Chinese Firm Hebei Qite Packing

Nov 11, 2016

Australian packaging company Amcor has acquired China-based Hebei Qite Packing for around RMB185m ($28m). The acquisition will allow Amcor to expand its flexible packaging operations in the Northern China region. Hebei Qite, which ...

Tags: pet food, packaging

Australia's Amcor to Acquire Plastic Blow Molding Operations of Sonoco for $280m

Sep 6, 2016

Australian packaging company Amcor has signed an agreement to acquire the North American plastic blow molding operations of US-based packaging firm Sonoco Products for $280m. Under terms of the deal, Amcor will acquire Sonoco Specialty ...

Tags: Amcor, Sonoco Products, agreement

Here's How Next-Gen Robots Are Changing Manufacturing

Jul 28, 2016

Robots are no longer the unyielding, one-task giants doing humans' dull and dangerous work. The new breed can perform more than one task and work alongside humans without being a physical threat. As a result, manufacturers across industries ...

Tags: Next-Gen Robots, Robots

Amcor to Acquire Flexible Packaging Manufacturer Alusa for $435m

Apr 19, 2016

Australian packaging company Amcor has signed an agreement to acquire flexible packaging manufacturer Alusa for A$570m ($435m). Amcor expects the acquisition to complement its newly created flexible packaging business in the Americas. ...

Tags: Amcor, Acquisition, Alusa

Packaging Council of Australia Future Uncertain

Apr 11, 2016

The future of the Packaging Council of Australia (PCA) is currently up in the air. David Carter, Chief Executive Officer of the PCA told PKN that memberships to the council have dropped to levels which have forced him to announce an ...

Tags: Packaging Council of Australia, PCA, PKN, APC

Archiving Australian Packaging Artefacts

Mar 21, 2016

A South Australian collector has donated a sizeable array of Australian packaging to the industry to preserve for posterity, and the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is co-ordinating the collation of this important archive. The ...

Tags: AIP, Packaging

Amcor Acquires Deluxe Packages for $45m

Feb 6, 2016

Australian packaging company Amcor has acquired flexible packaging firm Deluxe Packages in a deal that is valued at around $45m. Deluxe Packages will be operated as part of Amcor's newly-formed Flexibles Americas business group. Based ...

Tags: Deluxe Packages, Packages

Recycling Rate Plateaus, Glass Volumes Drop

Dec 25, 2015

22 Dec 2015 Australia is seeing a plateau in its recycling rates according to the Australian Packaging Covenant (APC). According to the sustainable packaging initiative, the overall recycling rate for post-consumer packaging in ...

Tags: Australian Packaging Covenant, recycling, Packaging

Christmas Hamper Project Gives to Australia's Needy

Dec 21, 2015

Instead of a traditional Christmas party, over 160 members of Australia's packaging, processing machinery and supply chain and logistics associations spent a day packing a record 1250 hampers for Foodbank to distribute to those in need. ...

Tags: Australian Institute of Packaging, The Foodbank Hampers project

Who Grabbed The Gold?

Nov 13, 2015

It was a full house for the Packaging Council of Australia's Australian Packaging Design Awards presentation in Melbourne on 12 November. Brand owners, pack designers and packaging suppliers involved in the design projects selected as ...

Tags: Packaging Design

Packaging News: Mutiny Brings Bounty for Lemac and Diageo

Nov 13, 2015

A complex shrink sleeve printing job that achieved what judges described as an “outstanding result in a category in which it's difficult to be innovative” and that showed “technical excellence in bringing a design to ...

Tags: shrink sleeve, packaging, printing

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