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60 OF THE BEST | PKN 60 YEARS SPECIAL
In the industry, she has thrown her sup- port behind PKN’s Women in Packaging forum, and other women in industry pro- grammes globally.
In 1992 she was acknowledged for her commitment to excellence as a final- ist at the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. This was further endorsed in 2018 when she and husband Alf were presented with the Ethnic Business Award, one of the coun- try’s longest running and most coveted business awards, by PM Scott Morrison.
A proponent of inclusive growth, Taylor is deeply committed to sharing tna’s suc- cess with the lesser fortunate, especially children. tna’s extensive philanthropic initiatives aid communities both at home in Australia and across the globe. Her efforts to lend support to socially excluded groups under the aegis of tna’s humanitarian programs earned her a membership to the Order of Australia in 2019.
Karli Verghese
Karli Verghese has been champion- ing the all important cause of reducing food waste for a number of years. She is the REDUCE Program Leader in the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre. She is also a Principal Research Fellow in the Industrial Design program of the School of Design, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Verghese is predominantly involved in designing, developing and leading industry applied and government funded research projects in the fields of food waste, packaging sustainability, waste management and life cycle assessment.
As associate professor at RMIT, she also supervisors Honours, Masters and PhD students and teaches in the Industrial Design program. Her research projects have included the development of deci- sion support tools for packaging, resource efficiency, food waste, eco-design and one currently being developed for Australia’s Antarctic research station (Casey).
Verghese’s contribution to industry has earned her a Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Packaging.
Liza Vernalls
Liza Vernalls, CR analyst – Plastics and Packaging at ALDI Stores, has garnered a wealth of experience in packaging in her 20-year career both in the UK and Austra- lia working for Mondelez International, The Arnotts Group (then known as Camp- bell Arnotts) and ALDI Stores Australia.
Throughout her career she has driven change in four main areas: Enhancing packaging’s role as the “silent salesman” by using proven techniques to build in the right attributes to the pack; driving sus- tainable packaging solutions by building strategies towards achieving key targets working in close partnership with pack- aging suppliers; helping packaging teams build “T-Shaped” capability, where they balance the technical and creative/com- mercial aspects, “thereby moving the mentality from a service department to a business partner”; and building packag- ing technology roadmaps and blueprints to ensure that innovative and sustainable packs are “launch ready”.
Vernalls has been a valued contribu- tor at industry conferences and events, and is a champion of advancing women in packaging.
Terry Waterson
Terry Waterson is an industry stalwart. He has been a member of the Australian Institute of Packaging for over 35 years, is a past president and Fellow of the Insti- tute, and has been an influential and con- sistent contributor the wider industry for 60 years.
Waterson owns specialist packag- ing and processing operation Metal- print Australia, which holds the inter- national licences for several packaging
technologies. His contribution to the eco- nomic development of packaging is exem- plified in his perseverance to introduce the Cheerpack spouted pouch packaging system to Australia for baby food and dairy companies, a format that is ubiqui- tous in these categories on shelves today (see page 106).
Outside of his tireless ongoing contribu- tion to the industry, Waterson has never wavered from helping others and being available to help the AIP whenever called on. His significant contribution to the industry has been recognised with a Fel- lowship to the AIP and Life Membership.
Craig Wellman
Craig Wellman, CEO of Australian man- ufacturer of caps and bottles Wellman Packaging (see page 105) has shown the industry how a local business can be successful.
Wellman has transformed the business in recent years, spearheaded a significant expansion of the company’s sustainabil- ity programme, and created a business focused on what he calls ‘future think- ing for plastics packaging’.
The Wellman Packaging portfolio con- tinues to expand under his leadership. Recent examples of the company’s innova- tion, as reported by PKN earlier this year, include a food grade 90 per cent Recycled Plastic Squeezie Sauce Bottle for ketchup, and preforms made with 100 per cent food grade recycled rPET as seen on shelf in the Colgate-Palmolive Eco range of dish soaps and surface cleaners.
Wellman says he sees a future of con- scious manufacturing where the envi- ronment is the first thought, with FMCGs produced with packaging and processes that do no harm; a future where the envi- ronment is better off because we put away more carbon than we create, and plastics packaging becomes a positive news story.
Wellman is a past president of the Aus- tralian Institute of Packaging and has been recognised with an AIP Fellowship and a PIDA Industry Packaging Profes- sional of the Year for his contribution to the industry.
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