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Left: Brightmark’s advanced recycling facility will be up and running by 2025.
Below: The Circular Plastics Australia PET recycling facility, the largest of its kind in the country, officially opened its doors.
AUSPACK success is APPEX launchpad
Jon Perry, ETF and Mark Dingley, APPMA
APPEX 2024 ANNOUNCED
During the highly successful AUSPACK exhibition in May, Mark Dingley, chairman of show owner APPMA, announced that the association’s flagship exhibition AUSPACK is transitioning into an all-of-industry event: APPEX – Australasian Processing & Packaging Expo.
APPMA has run AUSPACK since 1985.
“We’re one industry; it’s time to show it,” Dingley said. “We’re proud of how AUSPACK has grown, and the value that it gives exhibitors and visitors. AUSPACK has long been more than just a packaging-only exhibition, it is a show encompassing the total processing and packaging sector – from machinery, ancillary equipment, materials, packaging, and food processing, right through to industry services. Now is the right time to truly bring everyone together across the spectrum of processing and packaging into one show.
“APPEX will be one exhibition for the industry, run by the industry,” he said, confirming that this will allow exhibitors, APPMA members and key players to have a strong voice in the show’s development.
“APPMA will continue to reinvest the exhibition’s profits to support and develop the processing and packaging industry, and with more on offer for visitors, the Australian marketplace overall will benefit.”
APPEX will run from 12-15 March 2024, and every three years thereafter, anchored in Melbourne.
Top Clicks Online
1LANDMARK $260M INVESTMENT IN ADVANCED RECYCLING Brightmark is to construct an advanced
plastics recycling plant in Parkes, NSW, bringing thermo-chemical recycling technology to Australia for the first time. The plant will be able to process all plastics, types one through seven, including contaminated plastic. The plant is expected to be operational by 2025, with a goal of producing 1.7mil- lion tons of plastic feedstock per annum.
2AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST
PET RECYCLING PLANT
UP AND RUNNING
Circular Plastics Australia, the trad- ing name for the JV between Pact Group, Cleanaway, Asahi Beverages and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, officially opened for business. The groundbreaking $45m PET recycling plant in Albury-Wodonga will process the equivalent of around 1bn rPET bev- erage bottles per year.
3PRO-PAC TO EXIT RIGIDS WITH $56M SALE TO TRICORBRAUN Pro-Pac Packaging sold its PB Packaging rigids business to US giant TricorBraun for $56m, saying the deal would allow it to focus on its core business and to invest in innovation and sustainability. The move further establishes TricorBraun’s footprint in the Australian market, after previ- ously acquiring Cormack Packaging in September 2021.
Left: Court Caruthers, CEO of US-based Tricor Braun, which bought Pro-Pac’s rigids business.
Below: 2D Barcode by Gs1 are set to change the face of commerce and retail (see Publisher’s Choice March-April at left).
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