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WHAT’S COMING UP
APPMA NEWS
Widening the network
An ongoing drive for APPMA is to create networking opportunities for its members and the wider packaging and processing industry. The stellar turnout at the Melbourne members dinner in September attests to the value members derive from these events.
LEFT: The newly elected APPMA Board of Directors for 2019-2020 (from left): Robert Marguccio, James Windsor, Derek Ford, Rym Kachouri, Robert Becher, Mark Emmett, Samantha Saunders, Mark Dingley, Peter Bradbury, Stuart Shaw.
BELOW LEFT TO RIGHT: Peter Sullivan, Festo; Samantha Saunders, Integrated Machinery; and Mark Krygger, Orora.
Jason Mair, Sick; Mark Dingley, Matthews; Michael Moran, APPMA; Lindsay Tanner and Matthew Huntington, Sick.
Paula Bell and Tanya Hissock, Gold Peg.
BOTTOM: Leonie Wong, Robert Westlake and Jonathan Elias, Siemens.
Close to 100 APPMA members and guests, representing 35 companies, gathered at the MCG on 10 September to hear former Federal Minister Lindsay Tanner give his frank and forthright assessment of the state of play in the world of politics, economics and industrial change.
While Tanner’s forthright opinions were divisive, he held the audience’s attention with his compelling delivery, pulling no punches when it came to delivering his view on the “circus” that is global politics, where reality TV stars and “clowns” are in powerful positions, endangering the world’s future.
On industry matters, he said APPMA members need to be relentlessly focused on where technology is taking the world, and what the opportunities and threats are. He warned that it’s easy to get carried away with fads or to overestimate the potential opportunities inherent in a particular technology.
“You will not be able to avoid the tyranny of social responsibility. Excess packaging, food
waste... the world where you could keep an arm’s length from such issues is gone. They will influence your world and those companies you supply.”
A major issue that he believes industry should be focusing on is vocational education and training, which he says has “become a shambles in this country”, and is “ripe for re-energising and refocusing”.
He said he hoped the APPMA members are investing in this sector, and collaborating with education providers. This, in his view, is the number one issue facing the nation that is within the realm of government to seriously influence.
“Anything that you can do to contribute to better community outcomes on that front I urge you to do, noting that you can’t be expected to do it by yourselves and the absence of serious political leadership on these issues is a problem.”
The full report on Lindsay Tanner’s talk is available on the PKN website here: https://bit.ly/2pKQV4J or search ‘Lindsay Tanner’.
INTERPACK 2020
7-13 MAY
DÜSSELDORF
The global packaging and processing industry’s unmissable trade show.
HORT CONNECTIONS
15-17 JUNE 2020
BRISBANE CONVENTION CENTRE
An influential space for networking, education, and business for the entire fresh produce industry.
AUSPACK 2021
25-28 MAY
SYDNEY SHOWGROUND
The Australasian industry’s leading trade fair for packaging and processing, owned by APPMA.
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