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www.packagingnews.com.au | January-February 2022
TOP CLICKS
1ANZ PACKAGING ROCKS WORLDSTAR STAGE
ANZ packaging companies received the second highest number of
WorldStar Awards behind
Germany in the 2022 global 2competition. (See p7)
FED GOVT LAUNCHES REMADE IN AUSTRALIA CAMPAIGN
ReMade in Australia is a national campaign urging
Australians to recycle more
and buy recycled content 3products. (See p6)
PKN PODCAST EP48: WITH BROOKE DONNELLY & DR HELEN LEWIS
PKN talks... Collective Impact and our progress
towards the National Packaging 4Targets. (See p24)
UNIVERSAL PACKAGING JOINS SPICERS NZ Universal Packaging (UPL) and Spicers have entered into a share sale
agreement, effective as of 30 5November 2021. (See p8)
MERGED CTL AND O F PACKAGING LISTING Close the Loop Group listed on the ASX, following the completion of an
over-subscribed $12m capital 6raising (See p6)
ITALIYA INSTALLS FIRST HP PAGEWIDE C500 Italiya Graphics installed the country’s first HP PageWide C500
7Corrugated Press. (See p38.)
$25M INDUSTRY 5.0
HUB OPENS IN SYDNEY Australian companies will have access to advanced manufacturing technologies
developed at a new USyd manufacturing-focused research facility. (See p47)
Fed govt launches ReMade in Australia campaign
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THE Australian government has launched ReMade in Australia, a national campaign that urges Australians to recycle more, and shows how they can help create jobs and protect the environment.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the new campaign was a crit- ical step in giving Australians the confidence to recycle more and to buy products manufac- tured with recycled content.
“We are taking responsibil- ity for our waste, we put a stop to it being shipped overseas as someone else’s problem, and we made recycling one of six national manufacturing priori- ties,” he said.
Sussan Ley, Minister for the Environment, said, “The ReMade in Australia campaign asks Australians to look for those products using recy- cled materials, it raises awareness about the
ways recycled materi-
als contribute to our
everyday lives.
“ReMade in Australia will help Australians understand
the ways
they are con-
tributing through both recycling and the choices they make at the checkout.”
to drive economic growth and environmental protection.
“The AFGC is driving the development of Australia’s biggest recycling scheme for soft plastic packag- ing, the NPRS, which will increase the scale of soft plastics recy- cling in Australia, and help create a true circu- lar economy that drives demand for products that use recycled content,” said Tanya Barden,
AFGC CEO.
“We welcome the renewed
The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) wel- comed the federal government’s campaign as it focuses attention on the enormous potential for
“We need to recycle even
more, and this campaign will
help consumers and business
understand the benefits that
recycling can deliver for our
environment and for jobs. home-grown recycling and reuse build a circular economy.” ■
focus on manufacturing capabili- ties that will come with ReMade in Australia as it will give consum- ers confidence that their recycling efforts are part of a national shift to
Close The Loop buys Oceania Agencies
THE newly listed Close The Loop Group has acquired Queensland-based seafood packaging operation Oceania Agencies, to boost its offer- ing to the aquaculture market. O F Packaging, a division of Close The Loop, is already a major player in seafood packaging, here and in overseas markets,
and says the Oceania acquisi- tion will bring complementary solutions to the business.
Joe Foster, CEO of Close the Loop Group, said, “We will con- tinue to run Oceania Agencies as a stand-alone business under its own brand, and will leverage the capabilities of both compa- nies into each other.”
O F Packaging has a large customer base of seafood produc- ers around the world, with a major manufac- turing site in South Africa under its Foster International brand.
Foster said, “We have a lot of seafood customers, and expect the market to grow. Oceania has some
different products to us. It is a market we know well.”
Based just outside Noosa in Queensland, Oceania Agencies will remain in its current loca- tion, with its current staff, apart from the owners, who are now retiring.
Foster said, “Retaining the brand will keep it focused.”
Close the Loop Group listed on the ASX in November, fol- lowing the completion of an over-subscribed $12 million cap- ital raising, with strong support from institutional and corner- stone investors.
The cash raised from the mar- ket listing, which saw shares begin trading at 20 cents apiece, will be pumped back into the business, which is now valued at $65.9 million. ■