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MEMBERS NEWS
OBITUARIES
VALE: DAVID MCEWEN
Tribute by David Dobney
David McEwen spent his working career involved in and associated with the packaging industry.
He started with ACI Glass in the sales and marketing of glass packaging and became corporate advertising manager at the ACI head office Melbourne.
Later, together with Ray Storey, he established the graphic arts business The Corporate Personality in the late '70s, at a time when companies such as Kraft Foods were commencing outsourcing their design work for labels and packaging. The Corporate Personality is best known for designing the distinctive Coles
Myer logo.
As the APPMA (originally APMA) expanded
and grew in industry influence, David joined as business manager, focusing on all aspects of the association’s business and development.
David assisted strongly during the growth and expansionary years of the association, and also as the APPMA became a creditable industry organisation and a member of the COPAMA group of Packaging Equipment Exhibitions worldwide.
When David retired in 2011, his contribution and dedicated service to the APPMA over close on 20 years was recognised and acknowldeged by the Board and the wider membership.
Well known, respected and liked within the industry, David was a generous family man and happy person who always did his best for everyone he encountered in business and in life.
He passed away on 26 June 2018 aged 79 years. APPMA extends its condolences to family and friends for their loss.
VALE: CHRIS BISHOP
Tribute by Foodmach
In 2004 an excited Chris Bishop bought a major shareholding in Foodmach. His enthusiasm for supporting an Australian manufacturer was infectious. He quickly built a rapport with the Foodmach team, from top to bottom in the organisation.
Chris was a larger-than-life personality, with many stories to tell about his involvement in the packaging industry over many decades. One of Chris’s famous lines was 'I am a very fortunate 10-pound pom!'
Chris had many friends in the packaging industry and was highly respected by peers and friends.
Chris was Chairman of Foodmach from 2004 to 2015, before divesting and moving on to semi-retirement.
The Foodmach team, and the wider APPMA community, was saddened by Chris’s passing on 27 August 2018, and expressed sincere condolences to Chris’s family and friends.
HEAT AND CONTROL PARTNERS WITH KEY TECHNOLOGY
Heat and Control and Key Technology have entered into a strategic partnership to support customers in Australia, New Zealand and India.
Heat and Control has been appointed Key Technology’s exclusive agent to sell and service Key’s high-performance digital sorters, vibratory conveyors and other automation systems. The partnership leverages Heat and Control’s sales and service organisation to sell and support Key’s equipment in the defined regions, including providing application testing, field service and spare parts.
Heat and Control will also manufacture select Key-designed vibratory conveyors at its facilities in Australia and India.
The partners say Key Technology’s line of equipment complements Heat and Control’s
processing and packaging portfolio, giving processors access to a more complete line solution from a single source.
By leveraging Heat and Control’s facilities in Australia and India, Key Technology believes it can better support customers with demonstration and application testing capabilities as well as local manufacturing to reduce shipping and expedite delivery of Key’s products, according to the company.
“We have a long-standing history with Heat and Control that has now resulted in a collaborative partnership to deliver innovative, optimised solutions to processors in Australia, New Zealand and India,” Jack Ehren, Key Technology president said.
NEW POUCH SYSTEM FOR SINGLE-SERVE FORMATS
KHS Group is expanding its portfolio with the launch of its new Innopouch IM Focus, a horizontal form-fill-seal pouching machine specially designed for the packaging of products in single-serve formats.
Innopouch IM Focus caters for dry products, such as beverage mixes, food products and powder for pharmaceutical and agricultural use.
On the KHS Innopouch IM Focus operators can produce three- and four-sided and bottom side seam pouches.
Formats range from 50mm in width and 50mm in height to widths and heights of up
to 195mm and 240mm respectively. Depending on the content the machine forms and fills up to 100 pouches a minute.
In devising its new machine construction KHS paid particular attention to easy cleaning, resulting in considerable savings in both time and cost – especially when filling dry products.
With the Innopouch IM Focus,
KHS says it offers an effective, high-quality system for all single-serve variants to all companies, whether large or small, brand owner or co-packer.
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