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Unpacking the 2019 news year
It was a big year for the Australasian packaging industry, with multi-million dollar deals and trade shows aplenty filling the pages of PKN in 2019. Here are just some of the highlights.
Sirane, a UK-based
packaging develop- ment-to-manufac-
ture company, an-
nounced it would
expand into Australia
and set up an office in
Melbourne. MD of Sir-
ane Group, Simon
Balderson, said the
move had long been in
the works. Sirane’s award-winning, plastic-free Earth- pouch packaging is one of a range of en- vironment-friendly packaging solutions that would be available in Australia once the company opened its doors. Balderson said he anticipated high in- terest from Australian brand owners in Sirane’s plastic-free solutions.
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tna opens $8m manufacturing facility
Industry 4.0 and IIoT unlocked at AUSPACK
Smart packaging steps up a level
Bioplastics: doing what comes naturally
Creative packaging design legend toasted
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N THE COVER: Registrations opened for AUSPACK 2019, slated for 26-29 March in Melbourne, which this year for the first time would incorporate the Business and Industry Confer- ence. PKN would later visit the show, which turned out to be the biggest ever AUSPACK event.
The company suffered a $5.13m loss in the previous financial year despite climbing revenues, blaming both the drought and in- creased costs of raw materials. Tim Welsh later took over as CEO in May.
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Tube maker Impact International cele- brated 60 years in business (marked at the end of 2018), attributing its success to its flexibility and customer service. Founded in 1958 to manufacture tubes for Colgate, the company has occupied its site in Smithfield for its entire histo- ry, and has spearheaded sustainable ini- tiatives such as the Project Craig tube, made from sugarcane, and a solar farm at its headquarters. See our feature on Impact International on page 44.
Three Australian companies, and one from New Zealand, picked up nods in the presti- gious WorldStar Packaging
Awards. Caps & Closures
won in the Domestic & Household category for Pre- cise Pour; ILNAM Estate in Beverage for 8 Kangaroos; Lactote in Beverage for Po- latote; and Radix Nutrition
in Food for its Foil Packag- ing Breakfast Pouch. This was the first time a New Zealand company won in the food category.
Orora closed a $110m deal to buy the Texas-based packaging and facility sup- plies firm Pollock Packaging, its second Texas business purchase in 2018 after buying Bronco Packaging in August. The move expanded Orora’s footprint in the USA, adding Pollock’s facilities in Dallas; elsewhere in Texas; Georgia; North Carolina; New Jersey; and Califor- nia to its portfolio, as well as the com- pany’s 440 staff.
Australian Paper won works approval for its $600m energy from waste facility to power its plant in Maryvale, Victoria. The Victorian Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave the facility the go- ahead, and it is planned to divert around 650,000 tonnes of residual waste per year from landfill in Gippsland and Mel- bourne to create energy with best avail- able emissions control techniques. The scheme is expected to add 440 new jobs.
Pro-Pac Packaging was rocked by the exit of two top executives, in- cluding CEO Grant Harrod, who stepped down after just a year and a half in the role; John Cerini, former boss of Integrated Pack- aging Group, also quit as a full-time executive.
Packaging solutions giant tna opened its new 7500 square metre manufacturing cen- tre in Boronia, Victoria. PKN was there to speak to founder Alf Taylor, who said the company aimed to achieve sales of more than $1 billion in five years’ time; the com- pany grew 70 per cent over the previous year. The new $8 million factory is more than double the size of the old, and the lat- est of four tna plants around the world to have been built or significantly upgraded over the preceding 12 months.
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