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60 Visy buys O-I ANZ in major industry deal
Govt pledges $190m to modernise recycling
Smart factory: keys to automation success
Digital printing drives brand engagement
Flexibles: thinking outside the pouch
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Colgate-Palmolive adopted Well- man Packaging’s 100 per cent rPET preforms for a range of household items. They follow Wellman’s launch in 2019 of a 90 per cent recycled food-grade rPE sauce bottle and 2100 per cent rPET preforms. The rPET is sourced from several Australian and international suppliers, due to global shortages.
The PIDA 2020
awards ceremony,
organised by the
Australian Insti-
tute of Packaging
in partnership
with Packaging
New Zealand, ran
across two days
and saw the pre-
sentation of awards in six main cat- egories, as well as three special awards. Three companies took out double gold awards: Ecolean, Coca- Cola Amatil, and Sealed Air.
JULY/ AUGUST
Orora sharehold-
ers got a windfall
of $600m after
the sale of the
packaging behe-
moth’s fibre busi-
ness. ASX-listed
Orora passed on
some of the prof-
its of the sale of the business to Nip- pon Paper, which amalgamated it with subsidiary Australian Paper to form the new entity Opal.
The Australian government com- mitted $190m to boost the local recycling industry through the Recycling Modernisation Fund. The investment was later confirmed in the 2020-21 Budget. The move comes ahead of a phased introduction of a ban on
some recyclable materi-
als, including paper,
glass, tyres, and plas-
tic. The government
said the Recycling Modernisation Fund is
part of a national strat-
egy to change the way Australia looks at waste while growing the econ- omy, protecting the environ- ment and reaching the national resource recovery tar- get of 80 per cent by 2030.
ON THE COVER: Kurz,
market leader in
sustainable and
innovative surface
decoration and
brand protection, celebrated 50 years in Australia. The company’s manag- ing director of Australia and New Zea- land Stephen Pratt said the biggest changes he has seen during the years he’s been with Kurz had to do with digitisation and sustainability.
PEOPLE IN PACKAGING: Ralph Moyle has been an active contributor to Australia’s
packaging
industry dur-
ing his career,
which has
spanned more
than 30 years
and counting.
Heisapast
president and
fellow of the Australian institute of Packaging and he has recently received the AIP Founders Award for his tireless work across many spheres of packaging – particu- larly in education and training.
Visy bought glass manufacturer O-I ANZ for $932m in a deal that cap- tured the attention of the Austral- asian FMCG producers and packag- ing industries in late 2019. O-I was the largest manufacturer of glass bottles and containers in Austral- asia, with factories in Sydney, Mel- bourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Auckland. In a statement released after the acquisition announcement, Visy executive chairman Anthony Pratt focused his commentary on the sustainability benefit of the acquisition, rather than the com- mercial impact.
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Kurz celebrates 50 years of inspiring Australian brand owners and designers
Packform launched in May. It is a new end-to-end technology plat- form that aims to change the way packaging supply and demand is managed and sold. It operates as an open marketplace and aims to speed up the procurement and delivery process. Packform is led by Melbourne-based entrepreneur Philip Weinman, who joined forces with former Deloitte part- ner and founder of Deloitte Digital, Peter Williams, and former vice- president of Landsberg Orora, Preston Geeting.
APCO announced its 23 priority projects for the 2020-21 finan- cial year. They are intended to drive progress towards the 2025 National Packaging Targets. The projects cover priority areas including re-use, recycling, composting, recycled content uptake, and the phase-out of problematic single use plastics. APCO CEO Brooke Donnelly said the programme of projects had been designed to support Australia’s collective effort in the transition to a circular econ- omy for packaging.
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