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November-December 2019
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Foodmach chief customer officer Earle Roberts was appointed CEO, after deliv- ering a string of successes for the com- pany including a hat trick at the APPMA Awards of Excellence. Roberts, former CEO of Fibre King, had served as CCO since March 2017, managing marketing
and service as well as sales. He brought more than 25 years of experience to his new role. Food- mach’s executive directors retained their existing lead- ership positions.
Pierre Pienaar, president of the World Packaging Organisation (WPO), re- ceived a second honorary professorship from Sichuan University in China to complement the one he had earned from the University of Beijing. PKN spoke to him at ProPak Asia,
where he talked about his WPO role and shared his per- sonal ambition: to bring better quality of life through bet- ter packaging to more people.
Another acquisition saw Melbourne- based flexible packaging specialist O.F Pack snap up flexible packaging printer and converter Plasticover, enabling the expansion of its local pouch and bag converting operation. O.F Pack bought the 20-year-old Plasticover to grow its manufacturing base, having had its eye on various acquisition opportunities in the market over the past year. The com- pany planned to consolidate its local bag and pouch-making capability un- der one roof at Plasticover’s Carrum Downs site in Victoria.
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SMC 60th anniversary
SMC celebrates their “Kanreki” as the company turns 60!
Nord Drivesystems partnered with sys- tem integrator Sage Automation, Nukon, and SA-based independent recycling de- pot Container Deposit Systems (CDS) to roll out new recycling technology across Queensland. The semi Auto Return Ter- minal (ART) installed at recycling sites
around the state enabled CDS to process 32,000 contain- ers per day in its first week of operation, later increasing to 80,000 per day across five sites.
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2018-19 proved a big financial year for the big four publicly-traded packaging companies in Australia, with Amcor, Orora, and Pro-Pac all posting positive results – but Pact Group was the excep- tion, taking a $290 million loss on the back of the drought, weaker demand from the agri and food & beverage sec- tors, and higher raw material and energy costs. The company’s stock dropped 16.9 per cent on the ASX following the re- sults announcement.
aged in the new Ecolean pouches and filled on Ecolean lines. In order to reduce the plastic content, the Ecolean package is made of up to 35 per cent dolomite (by weight), a recycled element.
Labelmakers Group acquired the country’s biggest linerless labels producer, Le Mac Australia, for an undisclosed sum. Le Mac was the first company in Australia to intro- duce the complete Linerless Labelling Sys- tem, which eliminates the environmentally problematic requirement for a release liner and associated waste. According to Label- makers, the deal would generate enormous value for the company’s customer base.
Universal Robots became the sixth compa- ny to sign on to the Open IIoT panel, join- ing forces with SMC Corporation, Nord Drivesystems, Balluff, Beckhoff Automa- tion, and ZI-Argus. The advanced automa- tion and robotics company, which had pioneered com-
mercialisation of
collaborative robots (cobots), cited the need for factories of the future to be smart, and the focus on Industry 4.0, as its motivation for joining the group.
New Zealand’s Tatua Dairy Company launched a new pouch range using the Eco- lean film and pouch sys- tem – the first time this had been used in the val- ue-add cream category in the region. Products such as its 1kg Culinary and Whipping Cream, Mascar- pone, Cheese Sauce, and Sour Cream are now pack-
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ON THE COVER: SMC Corporation celebrated its “Kanreki”: 60 years in business. The company had grown from humble begin- nings in Tokyo, with founder Yoshiyuki Takada manufacturing sintered metal ele- ments for air filters, to a global power- house in automation and pneumatics. PKN visited the company’s Australian head- quarters in Castle Hill, Sydney, to learn from CEO Wayne Driver about SMC’s people-focused culture.
It was a packed house for the second year running at Print21 + PKN LIVE: New Fron- tiers in Packaging Print as industry profes- sionals turned out in droves to hear from some of the leading lights in packaging and printing. Around 180 guests, including packagers, printers, designers and brand owners, came to the ARA Darling Quarter theatre in Sydney’s Darling Harbour to net- work with their peers and learn from thought leaders in the industry.
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