Opal opens doors on $140m fibre packaging plant
By Lindy Hughson | 16 November 2023. Opal’s world class, $140 million corrugated cardboard packaging facility in Wodonga was officially opened on 15 November, with a special ceremony well-timed to coincide with National Recycling Week. The new fibre-packaging facility at Wodonga is equipped with the latest advanced, high-speed packaging ...
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Spicers Group to buy Signet Packaging - PKN Packaging News
Feb 9, 2024 · The Spicers Group, a leading supplier of paper, packaging, and visual communication products, has entered into an agreement with Winson Group to acquire Signet Packaging. The deal is set to complete on 2 April, 2024. The entire Signet team, numbering 200 and led by Jack Winson, will join the Spicers Group of businesses, with the Signet business ...
FPA Australia - PKN Packaging News
Trust FPA Australia for excellent customer service and value. Packaging News (PKN) is the magazine for Australia's packaging industry. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal ...
Visy acquires Packsize business in Australia and NZ
By Lindy Hughson | 23 January 2024. Visy, an Australian-based global leader in sustainable packaging solutions, has acquired Packsize Australia and New Zealand. Operating under ‘Packsize enabled by Visy’, the acquisition gives Visy exclusive distribution rights for Packsize’s technology and solutions, providing right sized boxes on demand.
Australia's packaging regulatory reform: What's next?
Sep 26, 2024 · In a webinar run yesterday and today for Australian packaging industry stakeholders, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) outlined a three-option framework for proposed reforms to the packaging system, ahead of publishing a consultation paper this Friday (27 September) for industry feedback by 28 October. PKN reviews the key ideas presented, and some of ...
Opal and Petuna develop fibre-based first for fish
Nov 11, 2021 · Opal and Petuna develop fibre-based first for fish. Tasmanian Salmon producer Petuna is switching from polystyrene packaging to cardboard, in a move that it said will divert more than 150,000 polystyrene boxes from landfill annually. The packaging, produced collaboratively with fibre packaging converter Opal, has resulted in an innovative ...
Acquisition: Plasdene sees a silver lining - PKN Packaging News
18 May 2015. Plasdene Glass-Pak has acquired West Australian-based Silverlock Packaging in a move that expands its geographic coverage, product offering and team make-up. The privately-owned supplier of glass and plastic bottles, jars, containers and closures today will increase in size by 50 per cent as the result of the merger.
Great Wrap converts food waste into plastic wrap
By Jan Arreza | 29 April 2021. Australian start-up Great Wrap has developed a certified home compostable plastic wrap alternative using food waste instead of oil-based derivatives, and has now set up shop in its new solar-powered facility in Melbourne. Co-founded in 2020 by husband and wife duo Jordy and Julia Kay, Great Wrap aims to provide a ...
Planet Protector raises $12m from impact investors
Jan 18, 2024 · In December 2023, Planet Protector Group closed a $12 million Series A capital raise led by the Mindaroo Foundation and the Victorian State Government, together with a cohort of other Singaporean-based impact investors.