• 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

In an initiative led by Viva Energy in partnership with Nestlé, a limited run of KitKat chocolate bars wrapped in locally manufactured recycled PP is rolling out to stores nationwide, demonstrating the potential for locally collected soft plastics to be returned to food-grade packaging in Australia.

Three Gold awards and a Silver saw RePlay top the medal tally in this year's PIDA awards. But behind the accolades lies an equally important story: the practical challenges of making reusable packaging systems commercially viable.

Australia's peak paper industry association has rebranded as the APPIA, reflecting what it says is the growing importance of fibre-based packaging across Australia and New Zealand.