Husband-and-wife-led material science company Great Wrap is in administration, with a reported $39 million in debts, citing a slump in demand as retailers and FMCG businesses began to recycle plastic in-house. Great Wrap was founded in 2019 by Jordy and Julia Kay, a winemaker and an architect respectively. They launched their first stretch wrap product…
Revenues for the Australian paperboard container manufacturing industry are approximately $452 million per annum currently, according to new market research, which also finds that this figure declined by 1.4 per cent on average each year between 2020 and 2025. The newly-updated Paperboard Container Manufacturing in Australia – Market Research Report (2015-2030) by IBISWorld counted 70…
AnteoTech receives $2.6 million R&D tax rebate Surface technology company AnteoTech, which is commercialising products for the battery and medical technology industries, has announced receipt of $2.59 million in cash for 2025 under the Research & Development (R&D) Tax Incentive. In a statement on Monday, it said the rebate from the Australian Tax Office “relates…
Orora has begun using a new digital print solution, able to directly print to cans at high speeds, at its Dandenong factory. Industry title Print21, which attended the launch last week, reports that the new Helio solution is based on a Velox NNC 500 machine, “eliminates the need for plates, labels or sleeves”; and is…
Packaging business Detmold Group has announced that it is building a new headquarters at Adelaide, consolidating a team of 240 staff from across eight sites around the city at the one building by the end of 2026. In a statement on Monday, Detmold said the new three-level site at 260 Regency Road, Regency Park will…
Packaging and recycling business Visy has announced a new fibre-based insulation liner, designed as a replacement for expanded polystyrene (EPS), is currently being trialled by an unnamed food delivery company. In a statement on Tuesday, it said that Visycell has benefits over EPS of being recyclable via kerbside recycling bins, while also sharing its “strong…
Recycling and packaging company Visy has announced a pilot project with brewer Stone & Wood, aluminium coil supplier Novelis and metals company Rio Tinto, named “Re-In-Can-Ation”, producing a beverage can with an average of 83 per cent recycled content. In a statement on Monday, Visy said the Re-In-Can-Ation is expected to run for 18 months.…
Packaging and recycling business Visy has released a virtual tour through one of its recycling facilities, allowing a user to see how materials are separated into different streams “through manual, mechanical and optical sorting,” how sorted materials are made into new products, and other onsite goings-on. In a statement on Tuesday, Visy said the virtual…
In the fourth profile in our campaign to identify and celebrate Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers, we look at packaging machinery manufacturer Packserv. Peter Roberts spoke to Managing Director Nathan Wardell. For Nathan Wardell, Managing Director of packaging machinery manufacturer Packserv, innovation in business runs in the family. Nathan’s father, and grandfather before him all…
Orora has received regulatory approvals for the $1.775 billion sale of its North American packaging business to Veritiv Corporation.