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DECADES IN REVIEW | PKN 60 YEARS SPECIAL
 ◆ In a $142 million deal, Pact Group qua- druples its footprint in Asia, purchasing parts of Closure Systems International and Graham Packaging Company from Reyn- olds Packaging.
◆ Arnott’s launches the Chill Me range of Tim Tams, with packaging printed by Amcor Flexibles using thermo-
chromic ink con-
taining pigments
that activate with a
change in tempera-
ture. The “chill
me” text on the
front of the Tim
Tam packages turns
blue when refrigerated.
◆ Woolworths becomes the first super- market to adopt the new Australasian Recycling Label (ARL) across its own- brand product range. Developed by Planet Ark, the label highlights what needs to be done to ensure the right elements of each piece of packaging end up in recycling.
◆ Oji Fibre Solutions opens a $72 million corrugated packaging facility in Yatala, Queensland, shaking up the Orora-Visy duopoly in the fibre packaging market.
◆ OEMFoodmachandbeveragegiantLion team up to bring Vipoll’s new Visitron filler to the Australian market, the first in the world to be able to run glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET bottles in the one unit. It goes on to win Foodmach the Best New Product Award at AUSPACK 2019.
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◆ Following China’s ban on accepting for- eign waste, federal, state and territory environment ministers endorse a plan ensuring 100 per cent of Australian pack- aging is made recyclable, reusable or com- postable within seven years. APCO hailed it as one of Australia’s most ambitious and
decisive environmental targets – known today as the 2025 National
Packaging Targets.
◆ Heat and Control, which offers food pro- cessing and packaging
solutions, joins up with multihead weigher specialists Ishida to form a single supplier for end to-end processing and packaging, called HCI Snack Solutions. ◆ Impact International, a family-owned packaging company, opens Sydney’s first solar farm designed for industrial use at its
tube manufacturing plant in Smithfield. ◆ Pro-Pac Packaging buys Victoria’s Perfection Packaging and New Zealand company Polypak for a combined total of almost $60 million.
◆ The needles-in-strawberries scandal dominates media headlines, and drives increased demand for metal detectors.
◆ Bannister Downs opens its new $30 mil- lion greenfield designer dairy processing plant in Western Australia, making it the first dairy in the southern hemisphere to have adopted the Ecolean end-to-end filling and packaging solution.
◆ Amcor signs a $9.2bn deal to buy out US flexible packaging leader Bemis. The com- bined entity would list on the NYSE with a market capitalisation of about $23bn.
   BEVERAGE PACKAGING GETS PERSONAL...
In 2011, Australia is the origin of arguably one of
the most talked about beverage campaigns of
the decade: Share-A-Coke. Enabled by digital
printing technology, 150 of Australia’s most
popular names are printed on Coke bottles and
people are invited to share a coke online. Sales
went up 7 per cent that year. It became a global
phenomenon – in 80 countries – that extended to
include ‘names’ from popular jargon, like Bestie
and Wingman. Coca-Cola continues to tap the
personalisation capability of digital print, with variations of the campaign rolling out in subsequent years.
... FINDS A VOICE...
The trend to use beverage containers for taking a stand on social issues is on the rise. Coca-Cola used both its packaging and its iconic billboard in Kings Cross, Sydney, to put its brand behind the YES campaign for same sex marriage in Australia. Just ahead of the controversial postal vote, hundreds of thousands of Coke cans rolled out into the market, sporting the word LOVE in the recognisable Coca-Cola font, with part of the ‘o’ in love depicted as a rainbow heart. (And Australia voted YES!)
... AND GETS SMART
In 2016, Aussie wine company Ferngrove adopts ThinFilm’s OpenSense NFC-readable printed electronic tag in a bid to control counterfeiting of its product in the Chinese market; Taylors Wines rolls out temperature sensor
labels using thermochromic ink that changes
colour depending on the temperature of the wine;
and Coca-Cola’s #colouryoursummer campaign
adopts temperature-controlled designs on most
packaging variants, allowing Coke to “come
alive” with colour when chilled to the optimal
drinking temperature.
    ◆ Unilevercallsonconsumergoodsmanu- facturers to act faster on packaging waste, following its own pledge in 2017 to make 100 per cent of its packaging fully reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
◆ Nestlé joins the growing list of compa- nies signed up to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and pledging to make all of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025. The company is also one of the first adopt- ers of the ARL.
◆ Metal packaging converter Jamestrong opens a new $12 million can making plant in Hornby, New Zealand, to chase the “white gold” rush of infant and toddler dairy formula exported to Australia and the booming Chinese market.
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