Packaging business Orora Beverages has unveiled a new aluminium can line at its Dandenong site, part of a round of upgrades totalling $110 million, during a visit by Victorian manufacturing minister Ben Carroll and local MP Gabrielle Williams. The line uses aluminium coil, which contains mostly recycled content, which is mechanically and chemically treated, cured…
Packaging and recycling group Pact Group has reported a slight fall in profit on rising revenues as it continues to invest in new packaging recycling operations and ready for further investment in its Australian packaging operations. The company reported revenue growth for FY23 of six percent to $1.95 billion in tightening economic conditions, softer demand…
HMAS Ballarat gets its new mast HMAS Ballarat recently received a brand new mast that will provide its sailors with a new Australian manufactured L-Band high power active phase array radar, and an integrated ‘friend and foe’ capability. The new radar, with CEA Technologies’ CEAFAR and CEAMOUNT phased array radars, are becoming standard on Australian…
Environment ministers led by federal Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek have stepped in to force mandatory action to reduce and recycle packaging in a strong rebuke for the pace of adopting recycling by the packaging industry. The ministers threatened to take similar mandatory rules to the textile and clothing sector if it…