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in 30% recycled content wrappers supplied by Huhtamaki. The recycled content has been allocated using the mass balance approach and certified by ISCC.
5VISY TO INVEST $700M IN QUEENSLAND RECYCLING
Visy confirmed its $700m investment in Queensland recycling and remanufac- turing, and announced plans to relocate its current glass remanufacturing oper- ations, which will produce about one billion glass containers a year, from South Brisbane to a new site at Yatala.
6ECO FLAT WINE BOTTLES MAKE AUSSIE DEBUT AT COLES Packamama’s flat eco-bottle for wine, made from 100% rPET by Visy, has debuted exclusively in selected Coles Group’s Liquorland and First Choice Liquor stores, with Accolade Wines’ Banrock Station and One Small Step from Taylors Wines first to shelf.
7AUSSIES SHINE ON WORLDSTAR STAGE IN MILAN
The WorldStar 2022 Awards presen-
tation, held on 4 May at Fierra Milano during the IPACK IMA trade show, saw a record number of Australian and New Zealand packaging innova- tions recognised on this prestigious global stage.
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In an Australian first, Visy confirmed it is now able to produce a 50% recycled plas-
tic milk bottle. Visy said its
$29 million multi-state plas- tics recycling investment is diverting up to 1.9 billion plastic bottles from land- fill and export each year, and keeping more plastics in the circular economy to be re-made locally into food grade products.
Above left: Queensland govt pleased about Visy investment.
Above right: Chris Foley, new CEO for APCO.
9CHRIS FOLEY APPOINTED AS NEW APCO CEO
APCO appointed Kmart executive and APCO Board member, Chris Foley, as its new CEO to start in the role in August. Foley had served as a non- executive director of the APCO Board since 2019 and as chair of the APCO Board’s Audit and Risk Committee. (See our Q&A with Foley in this issue’s People in Packaging, page 34).
10EPAC OPENS NEW $10M AUS DIGITAL FLEXIBLES FACTORY Global digital flexible packaging phe-
nomenon ePac Flexible Packaging officially opened its new $10m Australian site, the latest in its grow- ing list of facilities it has built around the world in the last six years.
VISY TO PRODUCE 50%
Abbe is the new brand name for the family owned and operated businesses of Abbe Corrugated, Austcor, Zacpac and Abbe Industrial, which until now have traded as separate entities in the Australian market. The announcement was made by Abbe at AUSPACK in May.
RECYCLED MILK BOTTLE
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ABBE BRINGS FOUR
BUSINESSES UNDER ONE BRAND NAME
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Pact Group Holdings completed its acquisition of Synergy Packaging, with Pact Group MD and Group CEO Sanjay Dayal positive about the potential of the venture. The ACCC confirmed in May it would not oppose the proposed purchase, saying the acquisition is unlikely to reduce com- petition in Australia’s rigid plastic packaging sector.
PACT COMPLETES SYNERGY
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Above: Packamama’s flat eco-bottle for wine.
Right: WPO president Pierre Pienaar and Lars Ljung from Planet Protector Packaging.
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