Visy is investing $150m in a new corrugated cardboard box manufacturing plant in Queensland, as part of its $700m investment in manufacturing facilities in the state.

Specialist supplier for the print, finishing, food packaging, and industrial manufacturing industries, Jet Technologies, has released Encore, a new sustainable film.

Impact International – a regular Gold winner at the National Print Awards – hosted a tree planting day for customers, attended by Minister for Climate Change, Chris Bowen, as it seeks to offset its emissions.

Global packaging printing juggernaut Amcor says it will continue with strong growth in the new financial year, after reporting upticks in all its figures for the 2022 year, with the fourth quarter the best of all.

Digital flexibles print producer ePac is going to build a second plant in Australia or New Zealand within 18 months, with the location yet be decided. It only opened its first in November.

Close the Loop Group has acquired Alliance Paper, and will develop products to hasten the switch from plastic to fibre-based packaging. The deal comes after successful materials trials with OF Flexo.

The Bobst family is bidding to take the company out of public hands and back into its control, launching a 22 per cent per share loading offer for the CHF1.65bn business.

Opal Group is spending $140m to build a new greenfield site in regional Victoria to manufacture cardboard packaging, which will pump out north of 160 million sqm of corrugated each year. It will house four integrated printing and converting lines.

Global anilox roller developer has just signed a distribution deal with ANZ industry supplier to see its engraved rolls, including GTT rolls, offered to the local market.

The country's biggest flexo platemaking house Kirk Group has installed a ThermoFlexX imager combined with a full Catena+ platemaking line from XSYS, for fully automated, touch-free, plate production.

Packaging solutions developer Bobst has revealed its latest portfolio of products and services, for converters and brand owners “to navigate through a new packaging environment”.

Leading label print business Peacock Bros. has entered the folding carton market, with the acquisition of AMR Hewitts, the specialist pharmaceutical and food print and packaging operation.

Flexo, offset and digital operation Detpak is developing fibre-based packaging alternatives for its clients, as it leads the charge away from plastic packaging, with its own innovative solutions.

Trimatt Systems took out the Australian Machinery Manufacturing Award – SME at the APPMA Awards of Excellence, with managing director Matt Johnson hailing the efforts of his team at the celebration event.

Custom box making and printing business Pakko has won the national 2022 Telstra Best of Business Awards Progressing Australia Award, which recognises owner Nina Nguyen's commitment to creating a blueprint for a manufacturing renaissance in Australia.

Print21 publisher Lindy Hughson moderated two conference sessions at major trade show IPACK-IMA in Milan last week, as part of the Packaging Speaks Green conference which ran alongside the expo.