This week’s Top 5 stories

Take a look at the stories that caught everyone’s attention on the Food & Drink Business website this week: Mondelēz International opens $13 million automated packaging line; Saveful grocery app launches; Philter Brewing closes Birchal raise at $2.2m; Magic Valley expands into Co-Labs; and applications for Young Henrys Brewing Scholarship now open. 

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Packaging News

TricorBraun has acquired Australian spirits packaging distributor UniquePak, and Australian industrial packaging distributor Alplas Products, further expanding its Australian presence.

Sales at Amcor fell by seven per cent in the Q3, but EBIT rose on the basis of what the company says was a strong cost performance, and the benefits of its restructuring initiatives.

Pact Group’s efforts to recycle used milk bottles and convert them into new bottles at its Laverton facility, has seen it win the Circular Economy Award at this year’s Chemistry Australia Industry Awards.