Celebrating 30 years of AUSPACK!

In 2015, AUSPACK celebrates 30 years of bringing together manufacturers, distributors and importers of packaging and processing machinery.

This year’s event will host more than 315 exhibitors over a floor space of 7862 m², a far cry from the first AUSPACK event in 1985, which consisted of a dozen companies on a cement floor at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney.

It all began with the creation of the Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association (APPMA) in 1983 with just half a dozen members. Their objective then, as now, was to promote, integrate and foster participation and development at all levels of the packaging and processing machinery industry.

The founders of APMA, as the association was known 30 years ago, believed that the industry needed a specialised trade show for packaging and processing machinery. To this end, founding members Malcolm Miller of National Packaging, Bob Brook of Bud Pak, Bill Juknitis of Advance Machinery, David Tierney of Heat and Control and Barton Porter of Inteco Australia worked together to develop an industry exhibition for the Australian and New Zealand market. And so, AUSPACK was born.

The APPMA now represents 97 of Australia’s leading packaging and processing machinery and allied components companies, and continues to grow. Members include manufacturers, distributors and importers of packaging and processing machinery who are suppliers to industries such as food, beverage, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, veterinary and household packaging.

The undisputed flagship of the association, AUSPACK, has grown to be recognised as the largest biennial packaging and processing machinery and materials exhibition in Australia. This year’s event will welcome record numbers of 67 APPMA member companies and 80 internationals, and has come to be recognised as an integral date in the international packaging and processing calendar.

Five of the founding member companies are exhibiting this year, so if you are visiting the event, please take some time to visit their stands - without them AUSPACK would not be possible. They are CPS, Heat & Control, MPI, Nordson and Walls Machinery.

Visit the APPMA on stand 255 at AUSPACK 2015 to find out more about the association and ask for your copy of the 2015 APPMA Members Directory