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1WOOLWORTHS’ PRE- FERRED PACKAGING MATERIALS LIST Woolworths publishes list of problematic and
preferred packaging materials for its suppliers to refer to. (See p9)
2HMPS EXPANDS
WITH IM ACQUISITION HMPS buy stretch wrapping specialist Integrated Machinery from Pro-Pac Packaging Group.
(See p7 of Machinery Matters 3supplement)
WORLDSTAR-DUST SETTLES ON ANZ PACKAGING INNOVATORS The winners were officially recognised during a virtual
awards ceremony, with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners taking out Gold for Sustainable
4Packaging. (See p10)
COLES CLOSES THE LOOP
WITH PRODUCT PACKAGING
The Coles Group has released its full
sustainability strategy announcing the complete removal of single-use plastics and closing the loop on product
5packaging. (See p8) NSW & WA LEADING
WITH FAST-TRACKED PLASTICS BAN
Both the NSW and WA governments have unveiled
plans to fast-track plans to drastically cut the number of single-use plastics in circulation
6with a total ban.
TELSTRA LEADS WITH 2022 PACKAGING PLEDGE Telstra has announced a raft of new commitments to manage its resources more
efficiently, including the use of renewable or recycled materials in its packaging by next year.
Orora injects $19m into glass plant
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GLASS packaging converter Orora has invested $19 million, including $8 million in govern- ment grant funding, to build an advanced glass beneficiation plant at its Gawler glass packag- ing site in South Australia.
Orora’s $19 million invest- ment aligns with the company’s ambition to be a leader in the provision of sustainable packag- ing solutions.
Speaking to PKN, Orora man- aging director and CEO Brian Lowe said the company was
delighted with the support from the Commonwealth and South Australian governments, with the funding injection enabling Orora to get the project off the ground immediately.
The new plant will be built adjacent to the existing glass packaging manufacturing site at Gawler in SA’s Barossa Valley, and it is scheduled to be up and running by the first half of 2022.
“The plant will give us the ability to sort post-consumer recycled glass by colour,
The new plant will enable Orora to increase the amount of recycled content in glass packaging manufactured to as much as 50%.
segregate the glass from other contaminants, and give us a clean stream colour-sorted recy- cled glass to feed into our fur- naces at Gawler,” he said.
Utilisation of more recycled glass during packaging produc- tion will deliver sustainability benefits, including a reduction in the amount of energy, CO2 emissions, and in virgin materi- als deployed to manufacture glass, and will divert waste away from landfill.
Lowe said this investment would create 12 new permanent jobs at the plant, with 66 on the construction project.
“The combined government grant funding is testament to Orora’s continued investment in sustainable solutions to support the growing needs of the com- pany’s customers and the Australian community.” ■
CEFC puts $16.5m into rPET
THE CEFC has made its first investment under the Aus- tralian Recycling Investment Fund, committing up to $16.5m in debt finance to a PET recy- cling facility in regional NSW.
The new plant will recycle an estimated one billion PET bottles per annum, which will be reused to produce more than 20,000 tonnes of new bottles
RIGHT: Albury member Justin Clancy, Asahi CEO Robert Iervasi, Cleanaway CEO Vik Bansal, Environment Minister Sussan Ley, Pact CEO Sanjay Saval, and Albury mayor Kevin Mack.
and food packaging a year. The announcement came days after a ban on exporting mixed plastics for recycling
overseas came into effect.
Ian Learmonth, CEFC CEO, says the investment supports Austra- lia’s recycling industry at a time of significant change in the sector. “This is a genuine closed- loop recycling solution that
reduces the amount of plastic that goes to landfill. It also rep- resents a significant advance in the development of Austra- lia’s circular economy,” Lear- month says.
Circular Plastics Australia (CPA) will be the country’s larg- est PET plastic recycling plant, and only the second facility of its kind in Australia to process PET end-to-end into food-grade recycled PET.
CPA is a joint venture between Cleanaway, Pact Group and Asahi Beverages. Construction is well underway, with the plant to be part powered by renewable energy through the installation of solar panels. ■