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The flexo and label printers FPLMA Technical Forum opened with Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp’s keynote emphasising the benefits of collaboration as the pathway out of Covid.
Packaging giant Amcor will use rising revenues to invest strongly in growth opportunities, with specific targeted areas outlined by CEO Ron Delia at his half year investors’ teleconference.
One of the country’s leading innovators in packaging printing, and a giant of the local industry, Charles Hanna OAM, passed away over Christmas. Hanna built Hannapak into one of the world's leading carton packaging print plants, before selling it to US-based global operator WestRock.
Melbourne converting operation Italiya Graphics is installing the country’s first HP PageWide C500 Corrugated Press, in order to expand its offering of corrugated packaging and POS, and digital printing services.
The new ePac digital flexible packaging plant in Melbourne is seeing two new HP Indigo 25K digital flexible printing systems go in, with installation by Currie Group.
A pandemic-induced pivot for family owned and operated commercial print business CBS Printing has led to the establishment of a one stop shop food packaging business.
Packaging producer and printer Opal has developed a new fibre-based solution to enable a Tasmanian Salmon producer Petuna to switch from polystyrene packaging to cardboard.
Opal Specialty Packaging has partnered with De Bortoli Wines to individualise Wine Advent Calendar boxes, by using its EFI Nozomi to digitally print each box with a different design.
Ball & Doggett has appointed the winner of print industry Exceptional Woman of the Year, Zaidee Jackson, as national business development manager, Sustainable Packaging.
Packaging solutions developer Bobst has launched Masterline DRO, a new full-line, high-volume, rotary die cutter with inside-outside printing, which runs from pre-feeder to palletiser.
German press manufacturing giant Koenig & Bauer is launching a new version of its metal decorating press, the MetalStar 4, seven years after its predecessor came out, and which saw 400 units installed.
Melbourne print business Lithocraft has enabled Arnott’s Group to shift all of its new point-of-sale displays across grocery and convenience channels to 100 per cent recyclable alternatives.
HP Inc says it is launching a new level of innovation for corrugated printing on its HP PageWide C500 Press, with an enhanced feeder, which it says will help accelerate growth in the digital corrugated market.
Global packaging printing equipment manufacturer Bobst is acquiring Cerutti, the Italian gravure press manufacturer, and will integrate the business into its Bobst Italia gravure factory.
Industry veteran Paul Sanelli has joined EFI as its packaging solutions business development manager for the Asia Pacific region, including Australia and New Zealand.
Miraclon, home of Kodak Flexcel Solutions, has introduced PureFlexo Printing, which it says is a next generation technology for flexographic printing with significant sustainability benefits.
