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  Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environment Man- agement Trevor Evans and APCO launched a new strategic frame- work outlining how Australia will deliver the 2025 National Packag- ing Targets in April. The frame- work, Our Packaging Future, was welcomed by representatives from across the packaging
value chain, includ- ing major brands, retailers, business associations, the waste and recy- cling industry,
and the envi- ronmental community.
   Dineamic, an Australian ready-to-eat meal provider moved from plastic to eco-cardboard packaging, the Halo- pack, for its tray meals sold at Coles and IGA. Available in Australia for the first time, the Halopack was developed and is produced by Dutch company Packable. It consists of a cardboard tray, sealed with a plastic film on top. It uses 92 per cent less plastic than Dineamic’s previous plastic tray and lid.
Amcor raised its full-year earnings- per-share outlook. The company’s third-quarter profits were particu- larly robust in part because of Covid- induced super-
market panic buying. Nearly all of Amcor’s pack- aging customers are in consumer staples such as food, beverage, and healthcare.
Plastic packaging was among the flot- sam that washed up on East Coast beaches after cargo vessel APL Eng- land lost about 40 shipping containers overboard in heavy weather in May. Coles plastic food containers washed ashore on Frenchman’s Beach. Coles confirmed it had lost or damaged cargo on the ship. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said the ship experienced a “temporary loss of propulsion during heavy seas about 73 kilometres south east of Sydney”.
 Ravenwood Packaging estab- lished a new subsidiary in Aus- tralia, appointing Sam Aloschi to be its Asia-Pacific managing
director. The UK- based packaging and labelling com- pany specialises in linerless labels and pack-inspec- tion systems. Ravenwood said it is looking to increase its pres- ence in the region. It has two liner- less label distribu- tors in Australia: Hally Labels in
Queensland and Label Manufac- turers Australia in Melbourne.
    Packaging OEM Foodmach was contracted by Med-Con to help set up medical mask production in one of the many stories of packaging companies shifting gears to help meet demand for locally made personal protective equipment to combat the Covid- 19 pandemic.
 Packaging manufacturer Detmold Group also stepped up to produce PPE. It turned some of its Adelaide factory to producing 145 million sur- gical and respirator masks. The com- pany reached a deal with the South Australian government, as well as the federal government to produce the masks – 100 million of them are for the National Medical Stockpile, and 45 million are for SA Health.
Orora’s sale of its fibre business to Nippon Paper was completed. The business was incorporated with Nip- pon Paper’s Australian Paper busi- ness, creating a new entity called Opal. It is now a “vertically integrated paper and packaging solution busi- ness,” according to Nippon Paper. The business changed hands for $1.72bn.
 Packaging colossus Visy sold its factory in Penrith in a $17.25m sale and leaseback deal that will see the company continue to run a glass sorting and recycling operation from the premises. The 42,000-square-metre plant was bought by Sandran Property. Visy took a seven-year lease on the 8000-square-metre ware- house, with options for renewal. The Visy glass-sorting operation mainly supplies O-I Glass, which is located in the same street.
  


















































































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