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JULY/AUGUST 2022
Packaging investment from Asahi, Jamestrong
2022 PIDAs: big winners in ANZ packaging
Harnessing the new era of recycling
Printing advances: industry unites at PacPrint
Aussie-first recycled content KitKat wrapper
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On the Cover: tna Solutions celebrates 40 years in business with its partners and customers at an event in Melbourne. Founders Alf and Nadia Taylor share the company’s journey from Australian packaging equipment pioneer to global food processing and packaging solutions giant, which today is ‘purpose-led for people, planet and prosperity’.
PEOPLE IN PACKAGING
We speak to Dr Carol Kilcullen-Lawrence, sustainability consultant at UPM Raflatac, winner of the 2022 PIDA Industry Packaging Professional of the Year Award. A past president of the Australian Institute of Packaging, she continues to make a commendable contribution to the association and the wider industry.
PUBLISHER’S CHOICE
Harnessing the new era of recycling: Prof Ed Kosior, CEO and founder of Nextek, outlines what the industry should be doing to harness the new era of plastics recycling and close the loop on our current post consumer material streams.
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The Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Awards (PIDAs) goes from strength to strength, as reflected in this year’s winning entries, which showed a heightened focus on innovative design to deliver packaging that meets and exceeds brand owners’ objectives.
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Above: Some of the 2022 PIDA winners.
Bottom left: Opal execs turn the sod at new site.
Bottom right:
Jamestrong invests $6m in Taree facility.
PIDA 2022: WINNERS
socially conscious designers across the ANZ region to create a limited-edition collection of sustainability-themed glass jars for Moccona coffee, complete with QR code activation.
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5JAMESTRONG INVESTS $6M IN AEROSOL CAN PLANT
Jamestrong Packaging is set to expand its Taree, NSW facility with a new
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Opal is making a major investment in modern manufacturing in regional Victoria, with the construction of a high-speed manufacturing facility for corrugated cardboard packaging. The plan is for the installation and commis- sioning phase to be completed by the third quarter of 2023.
3MOCCONA’S NEW DESIGNER JARS SUPPORT SUSTAINABILITY Beverage brand company Jacobs Douwe Egberts has partnered with young,
PRINGLES IN SHIFT
AWAY FROM PLASTIC
Kellogg’s Australia is
changing the packaging
for Pringles 53g varieties,
removing the plastic cap
and replacing it with a
foil laminate seal made
by Sonoco. The company
confirms the seal lid is
comprised of a multi-layer laminate structure (PET, paper, LDPE, MPET and PE).
OPAL INVESTS $140M IN MODERN
MANUFACTURING PLANT
CAPS OFF TO
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