Prepress specialist XSYS, a complete, standalone entity having separated from Flint Group, is bolstering its large team in the APAC region to continue supporting customers in the packaging industry.

Digital print for packaging is set to turbo-charge over the next 5 years, with Smithers predicting the market will double in size based on a CAGR of 11% between now and 2027.

Jet Technologies and long-term partner Screen are working together to deliver two new medium-to-wide format inkjet presses into the local market, aimed at the packaging industry.

A new Smithers report has mapped out a 10-year strategic journey needed to bring about greater sustainability in packaging, as sustainability has emerged as the defining market driver for the industry.

Amcor will boost its investment in ePac Flexible Packaging by US$45m, signalling the global packaging giant’s confidence in the digitally-based flexible packaging market, and ePac’s ability to scale.

Recent Telstra Best of Business Awards winner Pakko has created its New Quote System for immediate access to packaging order quotes, aiming to bring back work currently going overseas.

Visy is investing $150m in a new corrugated cardboard box manufacturing plant in Queensland, as part of its $700m investment in manufacturing facilities in the state.

Specialist supplier for the print, finishing, food packaging, and industrial manufacturing industries, Jet Technologies, has released Encore, a new sustainable film.

Impact International – a regular Gold winner at the National Print Awards – hosted a tree planting day for customers, attended by Minister for Climate Change, Chris Bowen, as it seeks to offset its emissions.

Global packaging printing juggernaut Amcor says it will continue with strong growth in the new financial year, after reporting upticks in all its figures for the 2022 year, with the fourth quarter the best of all.

Digital flexibles print producer ePac is going to build a second plant in Australia or New Zealand within 18 months, with the location yet be decided. It only opened its first in November.

Close the Loop Group has acquired Alliance Paper, and will develop products to hasten the switch from plastic to fibre-based packaging. The deal comes after successful materials trials with OF Flexo.

The Bobst family is bidding to take the company out of public hands and back into its control, launching a 22 per cent per share loading offer for the CHF1.65bn business.

Opal Group is spending $140m to build a new greenfield site in regional Victoria to manufacture cardboard packaging, which will pump out north of 160 million sqm of corrugated each year. It will house four integrated printing and converting lines.

Global anilox roller developer has just signed a distribution deal with ANZ industry supplier to see its engraved rolls, including GTT rolls, offered to the local market.

The country's biggest flexo platemaking house Kirk Group has installed a ThermoFlexX imager combined with a full Catena+ platemaking line from XSYS, for fully automated, touch-free, plate production.