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: Bubs Australia trading halt ahead of capital raise; Inghams Group acquires Bolivar plant; Hard Solo in breach of ABAC; Pepe Saya gets to work in the US, and Lyre’s enlists DJ David Guetta. 

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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.