Australian aluminium food tray makers, Confoil and Kingfoil have joined forces to head off cheap imports.

Visy has entered into an official licensing and technology agreement with Graham Packaging Company.The broad-based licence and technology agreement will provide Visy with access to Graham Packaging’s plastics packaging technology, design and manufacture.

The first Powder Handling Seminar, to be run by PowderHandling.com.au, will be held in Sydney on 28 February 2007.

CSIRO, through the Food Futures Flagship, Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) have announced a partnership to accelerate the development of super-healthy wheat varieties.

The Food Solutions Expo provides practical solutions for the food research, machinery, packaging, cold chain, temperature, water and labelling problems faced every day by food processing companies.

International and Australian experts in food processing and cold storage technologies will address the Food Solutions Expo 2006 conference at Food Science Australia's facilities in Melbourne on 16 November.

Australia’s wine industry is seeking to boost investment in research and development to $225 million per annum to maintain the edge that new technologies and innovation has given the industry over its global competitors.

Aussie Sweets has celebrated the official opening of its purpose-built manufacturing facility located at Auburn in Sydney’s west and the re-launch of the Aussie Sweets brand with new packaging for a range of product lines.

GS1 New Zealand is bringing two leading authorities on bar code symbology to New Zealand. Bar code symbology will be a retail standard with effect from January 2010.

Five City Supermarket stores across Shanghai are staging ‘Flavours of Australia – the Australian Food & Beverage Festival’ from 20 October - 5 November, part of the broader Celebrate Australia, Australian Style package of events organised by Austrade and the Australian Consulate General.

The Premier of Victoria, the Hon Steve Bracks has announced the winners of the 2006 Premier’s Food Victoria Awards.

Formrite Group has announced that it is the exclusive distributor for Plantic in NSW. The partnership aims to supply NSW companies with environmentally friendly packaging.

Matcon Pacific has announced that it is changing the way it operates across ANZ. Whereas it previously sold directly, its now looking for agents in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.

The Australian Institute of Packaging invites you to come and hear its guests deliver expert commentary on the global retail landscape, the future of FMCG manufacturing, and the trends and strategies being employed by the largest retailers in the world.

RFID won’t go away and is impacting on supply chains and packaging automation. To find out more, attend the AIP NSW October Business over Breakfast which will be held 26 October in Sydney at the Oatlands Golf Course Club House.