• Foodmach board member and Strategy & Sales director, Phil Biggs, with former Food & Drink Business journalist, Pippa Haupt, at APPEX 2024.
    Foodmach board member and Strategy & Sales director, Phil Biggs, with former Food & Drink Business journalist, Pippa Haupt, at APPEX 2024.
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Food & Drink Business journalist Pippa Haupt talks with Phil Biggs about Foodmach's Instant Palletiser at foodpro 2023. 

Packaging News

Sicut Enterprises and Close the Loop have received $5m and $2.4m in government grants respectively, to develop projects that will see 12,000 tonnes of hard-to-recycle plastics recycled into materials for local manufacturing.

Rosanne Jessop, MD of Pilz ANZ, is the new vice-chair of APPMA. With a career spanning 25-plus years in manufacturing, automation, and digitalisation, she brings a wealth of expertise to the role.

In a collaborative effort, Kimberly-Clark Australia and Woolworths have successfully completed a packaging trial aimed at eliminating the use of secondary plastic packaging for Viva paper towels. The initiative, now set to become standard practice, is projected to save 15 tonnes of plastic annually.