Jet Technologies has designed and implemented a marketing campaign for yoghurt brand Chobani, each pot featuring a unique competition code printed on the food contact side of a yoghurt tub’s inner foil seal.

The evolution and education of digital packaging print technology, print on demand, sustainability, the unboxing experience and packvertising were topics discussed by a panel of industry experts Paul Haggett, Joe Foster, Zaidee Jackson and Paul Sanelli at Print21+PKN LIVE.

Printers, brands, designers, agencies, supermarkets and suppliers have registered for next week’s Print21+PKN LIVE in Melbourne, which focuses on opportunities for all in digitally printed packaging.

Amcor saw its Australian flexibles print packaging business achieve “strong growth” in the first quarter of the new financial year, as the company achieved positive results in all areas, bar China.

Papermaking giant Stora Enso is investing €1bn to convert a former paper machine at its Oulu site in Finland into an €800m a year high-volume consumer board production line.

Leon Wilson, director of Revolution Print in Ballarat, will share his company's journey into digital labels at the LIVE event on digitally printed packaging, taking place in Melbourne on 9 November.

Esko and GMG have partnered to deliver a new connection between GMG’s profiling and colour prediction solution, GMG OpenColor, and Esko’s native prepress editing software, ArtPro+.

Paper packaging converter and printer Detpak has partnered with Foodland, to redesign core bakery packaging products, reducing single use plastic in a move to fibre-based packaging.

Digital packaging print operation ePac has made the biggest HP Indigo order ever taken, specifying 50 new presses, which will be installed at new and existing plants around the world, including in ANZ.

Platypus Print Packaging is aiming to be a leading Australian owned folding carton printer, following its acquisition of the Ovato packaging business.

Prepress specialist XSYS, a complete, standalone entity having separated from Flint Group, is bolstering its large team in the APAC region to continue supporting customers in the packaging industry.

Digital print for packaging is set to turbo-charge over the next 5 years, with Smithers predicting the market will double in size based on a CAGR of 11% between now and 2027.

Jet Technologies and long-term partner Screen are working together to deliver two new medium-to-wide format inkjet presses into the local market, aimed at the packaging industry.

A new Smithers report has mapped out a 10-year strategic journey needed to bring about greater sustainability in packaging, as sustainability has emerged as the defining market driver for the industry.

Amcor will boost its investment in ePac Flexible Packaging by US$45m, signalling the global packaging giant’s confidence in the digitally-based flexible packaging market, and ePac’s ability to scale.

Recent Telstra Best of Business Awards winner Pakko has created its New Quote System for immediate access to packaging order quotes, aiming to bring back work currently going overseas.