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DECADES IN REVIEW | PKN 60 YEARS SPECIAL
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◆ Orora invests $42 mil- lion into its Gawler, South Australia facility to meet increased demand from the wine market.
◆ Australian folding car-
ton printer and converter
Colorpak is acquired by
long-time business part-
ner Graphic Packaging
International. MD Alex
Commins stays on to
oversee the transition of
the business, and subsequently goes on to be appointed as managing director of Jamestrong Packaging in 2017.
◆ Australia’s first 100 per cent recyclable and 100 per cent biodegradable paper sack, manufactured by Pope Packaging, wins three gold awards in the Packaging Design Awards and later, a WorldStar award.
◆ After 50 years in the industry, ANZ label converter Hally Group is acquired by New Zealand-based Hexagon Holdings.
◆ Orora introduces Xsense, a cold-chain monitoring system that provides real-time data on the conditions under which per- ishable products are being stored and transported.
◆ Jamestrong Packaging opens a new $10m infant formula can production facil- ity in Kyabram, Victoria.
◆ Theuseofcodingandserialisationtopro- tect brands from counterfeiting and improve traceability is on the rise. A baby formula product range with tamper-proof packaging
andaQRcodeonits base is launched by Nutrico. The code can be used to verify the product’s Australian- made status.
◆ A new industry awards programme is announced called the Packaging Innovation and Design Awards (PIDA), which goes on to become the ANZ region’s exclusive
access point to the WorldStar Awards.
◆ Paper and board-based packaging con- verter Detmold Group makes a private acquisition of Adelaide-based Custom Cartons, and opens factories in the Philippines and India.
◆ Abbe Corrugated
and its NSW partner
Austcor invest $5m
in a new single-pass,
large-format digital
printer, and expects the
move to change the game
for corrugated conver-
sion due to the demand
for customisation of
products.
2017
◆ Australian Packaging
Covenant Organisation
(APCO) launches a new
five-year plan backed by environment ministers, with industry agreeing to increase its direct financial contribution to APCO’s activities to $34 million (from its previous $15m) over the next five years. ◆ Coca-Cola Amatil outlines plans to ‘remodel’ its Australian supply chain, closing its South Australia manufactur- ing plant and making a significant investment in its Queensland facility aiming for “better utilisation of existing plant and a greater focus on technology and automation”.
◆ Pierre Pienaar, education director of the
Australian Institute of Packaging, is elected president of the WPO, the first time an Australian has held this office. ◆ Australia moves closer to
a coffee cup solution with the trial of the country’s first recyclable coffee cup the result of a partnership between paper and board packaging manufacturer Detpak and California- based Smart Planet Technologies (SPT).
◆ Without substantial
industry funding and sup-
port, the Packaging Council
of Australia (PCA) is forced to
wind up and is absorbed into the Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA) – today the PVCA.
◆ Swedish liquid food pouch pioneer Ecolean sets up operations in Sydney as it sees flexible pouches gaining
a foothold in FMCG markets.
◆ AstraZeneca’s $100m invest- ment in expanding its Sydney production facility bucks the
trend of pharmaceutical manu- facturers offshoring production. It is expected to boost international exports from its North Ryde site to
$2.4bn over the next four years.
◆ Australia’s largest privately owned folding cartons supplier Hanna Group (HannaPak) is acquired by paper and packaging solutions company WestRock for $75 million. The acquisition will build on US-based WestRock’s growing packaging
business in Australia.
◆ Pro-Pac Packaging enters into a share sale agreement to merge with Integrated Packaging Group, with sights on becoming a leading player in the flexible and indus- trial packaging manufacturing and distri- bution market in Australia.
2018
◆ PKN teams up with Currie Group, Bird- stone Collective and DreemAR for the inno- vative #rhinosdownunder front cover in support of the Austra-
lian Rhino Project, which is printed in 4500 unique variations and includes a pop-out rhino that readers could also bring to life using an augmented reality app on their smart- phones. The printed execution goes on to win a WorldStar award for Currie Group.
GLASS IS LIFE
In the first initiative of its kind in more than a century, in 2011 glass giant O-I launches a global marketing campaign extolling the benefits of glass as a packaging medium for food and beverage products. Based on the tagline ‘Glass Is Life’, the campaign was targeted at the B2B market and rolled out in the company’s four key operating regions of Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and Latin America across a combination of print, online and social media channels.
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