Amcor announced a net profit increase of 25.1 per cent yesterday to $737 million.
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Pact Group expects $20m tax benefit
Packaging manufacturer Pact Group is expecting a tax benefit of $18 million - $20 million for 2014.
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Amcor delivers new bottling technology
Packaging company Amcor has launched a new technology that promises to simplify the way liquids such as drinks are bottled.
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Delivering the full package
Smaller production runs and changing trends call for more flexibility in packaging equipment.
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Packaging in an online world
In these times of social media and internet based retail businesses, flexibility is key and fixed high volumes are being replaced by small volume runs.
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SICK leads the way with gapless package detection
SICK Sensor Intelligence has defeated a number of packaging issues with a single sensor unit, the DeltaPac multitask photoelectric sensor.
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Barilla adopts 3DEXPERIENCE platform to digitally orchestrate product labelling worldwide
Global pasta brand Barilla has chosen the ‘Perfect Package’ industry solution from Dassault Systemes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company.
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Packaging company Amcor doing well despite drop in first-half profit
Packaging company Amcor can expect to deliver a higher full year profit on the back of strong sales growth, despite a drop in interim profit.
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Shareholders vote for Amcor demerger
Shareholders in multinational packaging firm Amcor have voted in favour of separating the packaging and distribution arm into a new company.
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Four out of five people suffer package-rage due to poor packaging, survey reveals
A new survey by the US Cox School of Business revealed that 80% of people claim to have suffered frustration, anger, and even rage over poorly designed packaging.
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Pro-Pac Packaging buys Eco Food Pack Australia
National packaging group, Pro-Pac Packaging, has acquired Eco Food Pack Australia, which develops and sells food packaging trays for fresh meat, seafood and poultry.
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A simple space-saving solution to the issue of singulation in packaging
Conveyor belts work well, but aren’t particularly neat. Here's a system that can line-up or ‘singulate’ randomly oriented items into an orderly straight queue for packaging.
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AUSPACK PLUS show sold out
AUSPACK PLUS organisers have announced the trade show has sold out and all of the floor space is completely occupied for the 2013 exhibition.
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Oz Brewery cans the bottle
Australian Brewery has launched the Pilsner and Pale Ale beer in a can.
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Cardia to provide environmentally-friendly bags for Breville
Breville Group Ltd will buy and market environmentally-friendly juicer bags by Cardia Bioplastics as accessories for the company’s market-leading Juicer juice extractors.
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Visy to target growth in Asia
Visy Industries is making an aggressive push into Asia, looking to begin manufacturing in at least four new locations and working with food makers to boost exports to the region.
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Packaging exhibition to expand
Organisers of AUSPACK PLUS 2013 announced they will add 202 square metres of venue space at the exhibition due to high demand.
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Pro-Pac acquires two companies
Continuing its consolidation strategy today Pro-Pac Packaging acquired the business and assets of Source and Sell and Stronghold wholesale.
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Natures Organics highlights benefits of efficiency
Justin Dowel, managing director of Natures Organics, has spoken of the benefits of persistence and efficiency in the personal care and cleaning products manufacturer’s success.
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IPG acquires Amcor plants
Plastic and paper packaging manufacturing giant Amcor, announced that it has sold three non-core flexible packaging plants in Cheltenham, Chester Hill and Kirrawee to Integrated Packaging Group (IPG), Australia’s largest specialist manufacturer and distributor of stretch film wrap and associated products, for A$22 million.
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