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ProPak Asia 2019 A special supplement celebrating the record attendance of Australians at the largest annual packaging event in Asia FOCUS: PIDA WINNERS

2019 PIDA winners All of the winners from the Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Awards LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

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Record Australian Attendance at ProPak Asia 2019

Australian Keith Chessell was recognised with a lifetime achievement award at the WorldStar Awards in Prague

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Australian Companies increase their presence at ProPak Asia 2019: Asia’s number one packaging and processing exhibition An ever-growing number of Australian companies have identified ProPak Asia as the number one exhibition to showcase their products into the ASEAN Region and 2019 will be no exception. This year will see 17 Australian companies exhibiting at ProPak Asia, which is the largest contingent to date.

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he Australian companies are exhibiting across multiple zones within the show, with the majority located in the Australian Pavilion in the Packaging Zone.

Companies in the Australian Pavilion include first-time exhibitors Australis Engineering, Lifecycles and Lantech Australasia and returning companies such as Rhima Australia, Profile Solutions, the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), INOX Australia, Lifecycles, HMPS, Fibre King and APPMA. Additional Australian Companies located outside of the pavilion include Gold Peg, Moisttech/Maselli Asia Pacific, Metz Australia, Heat & Control and tna.

1. Hygenius conveyor for the fresh food market

problems and finding innovative engineering solutions that solve inherently difficult materials handling challenges.

He explains, “Smart thinking is delivered by our in-house engineering and trade experts meaning customers have direct access to the designers and technicians who are delivering your solution. Nothing is lost in translation and you do not have to outsource capabilities to multiple providers.

“Our customers choose Australis Engineering for our expertise in conveying, robotics, automation and materials handling and we have strong expertise in the beverage industry, including soft drinks, juice, water, milk, wine, spirits and brewing. We also understand the food industry, with expertise across raw meat, smallgoods, seafood, dairy and cheese, chocolate, confectionery, snack foods, biscuits, ice cream, fruit, vegetables, packaged foods, frozen food, patisserie, bakery and bread, grains, spices and oils.

“Following our visit to the 2018 ProPak Asia exhibition, Australis Engineering realised the potential to exhibit our own equipment in 2019.

This year will mark the first-ever international trade show for our company. Following our scoping study

in 2018, we were impressed with the scale and professionalism of ProPak Asia and the strong focus on the food industry,” he said.

“Our decision to exhibit this year was also made easier by our new product development process which has resulted in the recent release of our Hygenius washdown conveyor for raw foods such as meat, poultry, seafood, dairy, fruit and vegetables.

“Hygenius will be a perfect introduction for Australis Engineering into the burgeoning Asian food machinery market and created the ideal entry point for us to exhibit at ProPak Asia in 2019,” Gustafson said.

Hygenius is a step-change in the way conveyors are designed and manufactured for the fresh food market. As members of the European Hygienic Engineering Design Group (EHEDG), Australis have taken the principles of certified, hygienic design and applied them to a food handling conveyor. Hygenius has been designed to minimise cracks and crevices where food or other product can accumulate and create bacterial growth which risks food safety. By removing material from the conveyor, the company says it has produced a conveyor which is very fast and easy to clean. One of the most

First-Time Exhibitors: Australis Engineering, Lifecycles and Lantech Asia Pacific Established in Sydney, Australia in 1983, Australis Engineering is a multifaceted provider of engineering design, materials handling equipment and industrial automation plus servicing and maintenance. It excels at designing and manufacturing innovative, fullytailored materials handling equipment.

According to Anthony Gustafson, engineering director, Australis Engineering, the company is guided by the ethic of smart thinking in motion and is all about simplifying complex 4 ProPack.pro June 2019

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impressive design outcomes of Hygenius is how quickly it can be disassembled and reassembled. Unlike other conveyors that can take up to 40 minutes to prepare for cleaning, the toolless design of Hygenius allows it to be disassembled and reassembled in less than two minutes and by people of any skill level.

“With the continued growth in the ASEAN middle class creating a demand for fresher and safer or more hygienic food production, Australis are ideally placed to bring our expertise to the ASEAN marketplace and build on our reputation of providing the best, engineered solution to manufacturing and warehousing challenges.

“Whilst we have exported our equipment to countries throughout the ASEAN region in the past, it has never been a singular focus and most projects were the result of Australian collaboration with a client wanting the same solution in the offshore facility.

However, with our presence at ProPak Asia 2019, we are looking to make longterm inroads to the ASEAN market by introducing our brand and creating a local presence with an initial focus on the fresh food and beverage industries,” Gustafson said.

Lantech Asia Pacific Lantech is widely recognised as the world-leader in stretch wrapping technology. It invented the first rotary stretch wrapping machine and has continually re-engineered the product with new features and performance enhancing technology.

Lantech is also an industry leader in robust and efficient case and tray handling equipment, with a worldwide client list.

David Fullerton, sales director, Lantech Asia Pacific explains that the company mission is to dramatically reduce the billions of dollars of damage that happens in transit, making sure products get from the factory floor to the retailer’s door in pristine condition.

Fullerton says, “Lantech are committed to making effective stretch wrapping easy. We do that with our machines, of course, but we also offer our customers extensive knowledge from our years of experience and more than 70,000 successful application installations.

“Based on observations of loading dock operations, and examination of many loads, both those that arrived intact and those that failed, Lantech has developed criteria to define an effectively wrapped pallet load.”

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containment force everywhere on the load • Locked to the pallet with a film cable • Have no long or dragging film tails “Our same principles of simple automation apply when we design our case erecting, tray erecting, case sealing and lidding machines. Our outstanding design features include an ergonomic blank infeed magazine that is power driven, not gravity fed. Cases are precisely formed and held in position while the flaps are folding, which makes a square case. We allow for easy and fast tape changing, and blank size changeover. You will find a wealth of resources on our stand in the Australian Pavilion at ProPak,” Fullerton said.

Lifecycles to undertake real-time sustainability assessments on the stand Founded in 2003, Lifecycles is an experienced provider of environmental software, research, consulting and training. The team work with businesses, individuals and government to assist them in understanding and improving their environmental impacts of their products and programs.

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assessment (LCA), having undertaken over 75 LCA studies in Australia and overseas.

According to Tim Grant, director of Lifecycles, 2019 will be the first time it has exhibited at ProPak Asia. Grant and the team will be demonstrating the PIQET packaging software that is suitable for anyone designing packaging in the ASEAN region.

The PIQET live demonstrations will also undertake real-time sustainability assessments on any consumer packaging solutions which are brought to the stand. The demonstrations will show visitors the indicative environmental profile of their package and how it compares to alternative packaging. The results will provide a better understanding of what PIQET can do and highlight their packaging’s environmental hotspots.

Grant explains, “PIQET has a global scope and includes data for six Asian regions as well as Europe, the Americas and Oceania. With increased focus on packaging sustainability we see a growth in the use of sustainable design tools across the region. As the PIQET live demonstrations will also undertake real-time sustainability assessments on packaging solutions, we welcome everyone to bring their packaging to the stand for review.

“We are really excited to showcase our PIQET packaging software to the ASEAN region as our solution includes the ability to assess impacts of the full packaging supply chain, including all levels of packaging and the logistical impacts from the product supply chain.

PIQET also assesses the impacts of product waste including the manufacturing and disposal of damaged or spoiled products in the supply chain. Lifecycles will also be demonstrating new aspects of the tool including product environmental modelling and organisational reporting.”

Lifecycles now consults in packaging and product sustainability in Australia, Asia and Europe and provides customised software solutions and training in the packaging and agrifoods sectors.

Returning Exhibitors in the Australian Pavilion Inox provides food processors with a design and manufacturing facility that is 100 per cent Australian owned, 100 per cent Australian made and compliant. As a Australian company engaged in successfully providing solutions for food and liquid processing Inox specialises in the design and manufacture of complete systems and 6 ProPack.pro June 2019

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equipment for the heating, cooling, and processing of dairy products, juices, sauces, soups, stocks, preserves and jams, slurries, meat sauces, baby foods, fruit preps, specialised ingredients and any type of food products as well as the supply of quality made, and compliant equipment manufactured in Australia for the food processing, dairy, beverage, pharmaceutical and allied industries.

Inox designs and manufactures specialised custom equipment and processing systems such as, liquid and powder mixing systems, jacketed pressure and vacuum cooking equipment, pasteurising and cooling tunnels, storage and mixing tanks, CIP/COP systems, de-aerators, pressure vessels, aseptic vessels, blending and mixing equipment, batch mixing, cooking and cooling food processing equipment, continuous food processing systems for heating, cooking, and cooling including viscous product with particulates.

Inox describes itself as a truly onestop shop in this industry. Process design experience and stainless-steel fabrication know-how ensures that each system designed and manufactured at Inox is delivered with confidence and the customer has service backup.

According to Robert Becher, managing director, Inox Australia, 2019 will be the fourth consecutive year that Inox will exhibit at ProPak in the Australian Pavilion.

Becher says, “The level of interest and showcasing of new, innovative Inox technology for the ASEAN food processing industry has been very wellreceived. Our goal is to bring our Australian food processing expertise and high-quality standard into the ASEAN market and further improve local and international business relationships between Australia and ASEAN. “The ASEAN region is a powerhouse of food processing facilities supplying a vast range of speciality ingredients, beverages and food products globally.

The process expertise of Inox from its now 21-year history has seen Australian companies further advance their processing capabilities into more efficient, safer and quality of their products to the supermarket shelf.

“The opportunity to enhance production in ASEAN with Inox process knowledge and reliable equipment is at the forefront of the Inox business strategy to enhance food production in this region. Our goal is to assist ASEAN food processing companies to gain a competitive edge and target their points of difference in the marketplace with intelligent processing solutions.”

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Chef series of cooking kettles, the equipment. Furthermore, customers Demo-Chef is a complete cooking can improve on quality and appearance kitchen facility skid mounted system of their food products to further that enables food processors to trial any enhance the overall quality, flavours type of viscous food product under and appearance of their food products. various cooking conditions.

Inox says this leads to highly soughtSautéing, frying, heating and after competitive advantages in the cooking can be achieved under innovative and demanding consumer Atmospheric, Pressure or Vacuum food product space. conditions. The horizontal agitator in the demo-chef cooker has an effective High speed, high power gentle lifting motion that provides a thorough agitation, improves heat Inox will also be showcasing its high transfer from the kettle steam jacket, speed, high shear powder and liquid and is capable of mixing products of mixing equipment known as the higher viscosity. This includes Instantiser. The demo, production particulates such as soups, sauces, ready machine will be operating at marinades, jellies, liquid stocks and any ProPak. This mixing equipment is other type of liquid food product that unique in its design, function ability requires cooking. This type of agitation and quality. Mixing of difficult food is also capable of sautéing or frying products are achieved to a high products such as onion, garlic or other standard and quickly. The final products that are usually prepared in product is homogeneous and lump free other frying machinery and then to ensure that further processing is of transferred into a kettle. the highest consistency and quality.

The Demo-Chef has the ability to process in this way in the same Kelstream Heat Exchanger machine, without the need to transfer the initial product to the final mixture For continuous heating or cooling of of product inside the kettle, making it a food products ranging from low one-stop cooking system. This saves viscosity to high viscosity, and with labour, processing time and the need particulates, Inox will be showcasing for additional machinery.

The Demo-Chef system is available The ASEAN region is a powerhouse of for customers to fully process and test, their food products with Inox cooking food processing facilities supplying a systems. This enables and gives vast range of specialty ingredients customers confidence and proof of Robert Becher, managing director, Inox Australia process before investing in production

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the Kelstream scraped surface heat exchanger. This unique and high production output equipment is capable of heating or cooling at rates from 100L/hr to 5,000L/hr and more depending on the parameters required.

Integration with Inox mixing and cooking batch equipment allows Inox to offer continuous processing systems.

The benefits include a small footprint, expansion flexibility, integration into existing systems, low total cost of ownership and a much simpler design and lower maintenance than traditional scraped surface heat exchangers. European sales have steadily grown as this technology has been well received and the benefits realised. Inox proudly brings this innovative technology to the ASEAN processing sector.

Rhima Rhima specialises in equipment washing systems for businesses, industries and environments where impeccable hygiene and cleanliness are essential. They supply reliable industrial washers off the shelf or custom built to your specifications to comply with HACCP guidelines.

Rhima’s extensive range of specialised equipment includes: machines specifically designed for prosciutto, salami and ham washing; bread and vegetable crate washing; rigid and collapsible crates, manual or fully robotic loading and unloading;

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120, 240 and 1,000 litre bin washers; washing machines custom requirements; washing and drying machines for chocolate and confectionery moulds; and wastewater pre-treatment systems to ensure compliance with local environmental regulations.

In general manufacturing, the need for perfectly clean products is becoming increasingly important.

Rhima’s technical know-how can be applied to cleaning light engineering parts and components that need to meet high QA criteria. In food manufacturing, high standards of hygiene and cleanliness are essential to comply with HACCP guidelines.

Darrem Lam, business development executive South East Asia, Rhima says that the company will be showcasing pot and utensil washers as well as a multipurpose crate washer on their stand this year.

He explains, “Rhima are specialists in washing solutions and will be showcasing tray, pot and utensil washers mainly for bakeries. We also have a range of other washers available for different washing purposes, such as crate washers.

“We see that there are growth opportunities in the food manufacturing industry in the ASEAN region and Rhima already has an established base in Singapore and machines in Sri Lanka, India, China, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.

“Our markets are ever-expanding, and not just in food manufacturing.

With the introduction of water based oils and paints we have supplied washing machines to the automotive and general manufacturing industry.

“The introduction of recyclable packaging requires adequate cleaning processes. As the single use market is under pressure due to environmental issues, the re-useable market will only expand. Items needs to be cleaned effectively and efficiently.

“Washing, or rather dishwashing, is a low interest product. It is not glamorous; it does not add any intricate value to a product’s taste or market allure. Washrooms are mostly wet, misty areas with high staff turnover and little interest from management. Yet companies have been almost forced to close due to hygiene issues. A typical example of this has been Garibaldi Smallgoods and recently Maple Company in Canada who due to swift and decisive action avoided a disaster.

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sales expanding and the company riding the crest of the waves.”

Profile Solutions Profile Solutions started in 1993 and have been designing and manufacturing leak testers since the beginning. In 1998 they started selling the leak testers under the Profile Solutions brand and have been exported to 35 countries. For more than two decades they have made the world’s fastest single head leak tester.

In a test run they were able to test a small container around 10-15 cc and find a hole 0.18mm in a peak run at 17,475 per hour on one head. Profile Solutions offer leak testing and automation solutions for container from 10ml to 1000L. When you walk into a supermarket a large proportion

1. Profile Solutions 4LD Plastic Bottle Leak Tester

of all the bottles filled in Australia have been tested on a device made by Profile Solutions. Their automation solutions have mainly been in conjunction with blow moulding machines including bung inserters, rotators, transfer devices, dust cap placement and palletiser using CNC 5 axis and linear robots. They have also made very short cycle time stacking devices.

4LD Plastic Bottle Leak Tester Profile Solutions will be showing a working 4LD Plastic Bottle Leak Tester which is also flexible enough to test up to 6L containers. Profile Solutions manufactures the fastest plastic bottle leak testers per test head in the world and has exported to 35 countries so far.

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bottles per hour on a single head, a world record testing which was still finding 0.18 mm holes.

Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) will not only be exhibiting in the Australian Pavilion but will also be launching the inaugural Global Packaging Forum, in conjunction with the show organisers on June 12. As the peak professional body for packaging training and education in Australasia the AIP welcomes visitors to the stand to discuss professional and personal development.

and global trends in packaging, innovation, digital printing, robotics, and automation. The speakers will come from both key global packaging associations and leading companies in these markets. All of industry is invited to attend and tickets will be free. https://www.propakasia.com/ ppka/2019/en/global_packaging.asp

HMPS Specialised Machinery HMPS is an Australian company which specialises in the design,

Inaugural Global Packaging Forum – Wednesday 12th June The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), in conjunction with UBM Allworld, will be running the inaugural Global Packaging Forum on Wednesday 12 June. Speakers will be coming from all across the globe to discuss regional and global trends in sustainable packaging, biodegradable and compostable Packaging, 2025 Sustainable Packaging Targets, how the industry can help minimise food waste, save food packaging design, regional

development and manufacturing of high-quality machinery for packaging processes. Starting out as a result of the wine industry in South Australia, the company designed and developed the first bag in box machinery back in the 80s and has since grown to offer case packers, RSC, palletisers, carton erectors and sealers, sleevers, crate packers, pick and place applications and specialised robotic solutions.

HMPS are able to offer specialised machinery which is adapted to the client’s requirements. The company’s machinery is exported to Asia, South Africa, New Zealand, Europe and the USA. Offering customers the latest in Industry 4.0 technology, HMPSConnect can be fitted to machinery as an optional extra. This option gives customers assurance that no matter where they are in the world, they have access to insight into their operation as well as remote technical support. Furthermore, HMPS has a fully trained technical team who travel to customers to assist with on-site commissioning, service and repairs. As a global player it partners with what it considers the best component suppliers ensuring spare parts and support is available to all their customers regardless of where all its customers are based.

Sustainable Packaging Training Course – 14 June The AIP will also be running their new Introduction to Sustainable Packaging Training Course on Friday 14 June for all of industry to attend.

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Overview of the Sustainable Packaging Training Course How do you work your way through the maze of demands to change packaging to meet environmental challenges? This course is designed to assist anyone who is responsible in their business to make packaging changes to meet ‘War on Waste’ questions, changes to retailer and consumer trends and behaviours; while not spending any more money at the end.

The course will provide attendees a better understanding of the practical guidelines and criteria needed to design and develop sustainable packaging including the Sustainability Hierarchy of Reduce, Reuse then Recycle and the Circular Economy approach to packaging and the environment.

Discussions will also cover Plastic, Glass and Metal packaging and their impact on the environment and whether the use of

non-renewable resources, plant-based bioplastics, compostable and recycled materials and various tools can assist their business to understand the full life of packaging. This will involve the impact of ‘Food or Product Waste’.

Participants will be invited to bring with them a sample of their company’s packaging materials to use as a case study.

Who should attend?

If you are responsible for your business’s packaging design, performance or purchase specification, then you should attend.

Packaging Designers, Technologists and Engineers, anyone responsible for Environmental Strategy Development, Marketing & Sales, Graphic Designers.

Registrations are now open using http:// aipack.com.au/event-registration/?ee=217

Course Objectives: • To provide participants an understanding of the current environmental issues that are impacting the producers of packaging and the manufacturers and retailers of packaged product.

• To provide participants an understanding of sustainable packaging design and the practical design guidelines and approaches required in the packaging design process including End of Life (EoL) thinking.

• To provide participants with a better view of Best Practice Examples and Case Studies of award-winning Sustainable Packaging and Save Food Packaging innovations.

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Linh Bui, commercial manager, HMPS, says the company is looking forward to exhibiting for the fifth consecutive year in the Australian Pavilion.

Bui explains, “HMPS have installed a number of machines across the ASEAN region with customers in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and China. We have a dedicated export team who looks after these customers, their installations and technical requirements.

“HMPS believes that our flexible approach to packaging and the scalability of the solutions we offer are of interest and value to Asia.

HMPS offers machinery which can pack a large variety of sizes and configurations. All machines are custom designed according to the customer’s requirements. Machines are built to the highest quality standards and the solution is designed and engineered by our team of over 50 qualified staff who include design, mechanical, electrical, electropneumatic and software engineers.”

1. HMPS machines are built to the highest standards

HMPS has developed a modular frame design which allows for benefits on multiple layers. For customers it means flexibility around growth and expansion which allows them to be fit for future. The standardised machine design features a modular format with a smaller, more compact footprint. The electronics are all fitted in an overhead panel which ensures that it is out of the way and only operated by appropriate staff members. The new design allows the customer more flexibility.

One of the key design elements is the visibility of the machine. Fault finding is a lot easier as the machine will light up in the area where the problem has occurred. The inner workings are off the ground allowing for ease of access, a safer operating environment for the operator and a clear walkway. A washdown version is available allowing for hygienic operation which is sealed or easily cleaned.

Finite Element Analysis was completed on the standard parts and HMPS understand the vibration and harmonics of the machine at various loads. This allows for a frame with less

movement, a safer operating environment and a longevity of the product. Because these studies are already completed, the customer can look forward to a high-quality product manufactured in a short period of time.

There is an option to fit machines with HMPSConnect, HMPS’ IoT solutions so that manufacturers even in the ASEAN region have the ability to receive the same amount of technical support; which has become increasingly popular with customers.

Fibre King continues commitment to Thailand Fibre King is now a 90-year-old engineering company, specialising in the design and manufacture of end of line packaging machinery. Fibre King produces case packers, palletisers, meat equipment and crate automation equipment for the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, meat, fresh produce and household and personal goods industries.

Fibre King works with customers to create engineered end of line

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automation solutions for the beverage, 2. Fibre King Compact food, FMCG, personal care, Modular Palletiser pharmaceutical, meat and fresh produce industries. Its flexible automation range includes case packing, palletising, robotic integration, conveying systems and crate handling.

Fibre King says whether you are looking for a basic off-the-shelf packaging machine, or a fully customised turnkey solution with integration and robotics, you will enjoy lower overall cost-of-use with its equipment. With over 90 years of engineering excellence, international packaging experience and strong service capability, the company notes that it is a leading packaging equipment supplier.

Fibre King has a combined 5000 square metres of factory space in Australia and Thailand, a team of over 100 designers, engineers, technicians, sales, service and support staff that all work together to export the international standard in packaging equipment across the globe.

James Windsor, managing director, Fibre King explains that the company continues to exhibit at ProPak Asia

annually because as a local manufacturer in Thailand it is a great opportunity to showcase Fibre King capabilities and generate local enquiries for their solutions.

He says, “Even before we established our manufacturing facility in Thailand in 2012 the business had been exporting to the ASEAN region for over 20 years. Now that we are local it is fantastic to have a world-leading tradeshow right on our doorstep.�

New Compact Modular Palletiser from Fibre King This year Fibre King will be showcasing one of their newest machines, the Compact Modular Palletiser (CMP). This machine is designed specifically for palletising in facilities where space is limited, the footprint of the machine is just two metres wide by three metres long.

Fibre King will also be showing off some of the latest IoT and Industry 4.0 initiatives which it has integrated into the CMP. Specific features which will be displayed include: an on machine pallet pattern generation, operator efficiency training, real time

productivity data and predictive maintenance technology.

Fibre King will also be offering the opportunity for customers to visit their Rayong facility and view the quality of their workmanship first-hand.

Separate from the Pavilion Australian Companies that are exhibiting outside of the Australian Pavilion across other zones include Gold Peg, Heat and Control, tna, Metz Specialty Materials, and Moisttech/ Maselli Asia Pacific.

Metz Specialty Materials Metz Specialty Materials is a 100 per cent Australian owned and operated business that was founded over 65 years ago and has remained focused ever since on providing specialist building materials to assist industry resist the damaging effects of corrosion and abrasion. The operating company manufactures and sells a broad range of materials predominantly used for acid proofing and industrial flooring.

Its manufacturing facility is located in Clayton North, Melbourne, Australia

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1 and is Quality Accredited to AS/NZS ISO9001:2008. Their accreditation is for the development and manufacture of acid proofing materials, tile fixing systems and industrial flooring materials and the business is a proud exporter of Australian made products.

Stuart Ellis, export manager, Metz Specialty Materials, explains, “ProPak Asia provides the perfect platform to showcase our range of flooring to companies that are attending the show in search of packaging equipment.

Once they see our Australian-made quality flooring they soon realise that it is the perfect solution to sit their equipment on.

“We will be displaying a small range of our products, specifically for the Food & Beverage industry, but applicable across many others.

“Metz manufacture, supply and install both tile and epoxy/PU (resin) flooring and we will have a dynamic display that pours water over a tiled flooring system into a drain, so visitors have the ability to touch and feel the tiles and water.

“For Asia, we currently have an exclusive distributor arrangement with companies in Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia so we are working across the entire ASEAN Region,” says Metz.

Heat and Control Heat and Control is a privately owned multi-national manufacturer of industrial food processing and packaging systems and is the industry leader for developing and implementing innovative customised solutions. Heat and Control says that 12 ProPack.pro June 2019

1. Heat & Control Accuflavor 2. Gold Peg pizza cheese process will be on show 3. Gold Peg FreeTherm for batch cooking processes

for over sixty-five years it has set the standard for food processing systems and today provides processing, product handling and packaging solutions for a wide variety of food products. Its systems and equipment help clients to produce consistently high quality food products, in large volumes, at high levels of efficiency.

Heat and Control has been serving manufacturing companies in food industry since 1950 and are specialists in providing turnkey processing and packaging equipment solutions. The company offers a comprehensive range of equipment to produce snack foods such as potato chips, corn-based snacks, nuts and legumes, namkeen and french fries along with coating, frying and cooking equipment to valueadd to meat, poultry and seafood products. From concept, testing and installation, to after-sales service and support, Heat and Control says its team of technicians, engineers and product experts have the knowledge to ensure systems are up and running smoothly and are optimised for product specifications.

Ricky Ong, sales manager - Asia for Heat and Control, says the company has shown a string commitment to ProPak Asia as an exhibitor for almost 15 years.

Ong explains, “As the premier packaging and processing show for the ASEAN region Heat and Control sees ProPak Asia as an important event to showcase our technology to the region, meet our existing customers and new prospects. With many Thai food manufacturers exporting their products globally, Heat and Control are well-versed with their own global

footprint to share our wealth of experience and expertise.

“Heat and Control have been actively serving the ASEAN region since the 1970’s with a sales office in Singapore and after-sales representatives throughout the ASEAN region. The company has an extensive network of local agents exclusively representing and servicing Heat and Control equipment to assure local support to our customer-base.

“We understand the needs and expectations of our customers due to our long history of supply and regular visits by our sales and service personnel. Opportunities include both traditional and new generation products which demand large volume production, consistent high quality, sanitation, efficiency and cost savings to customers,” says Ong.

Generation FastBack Distribution System With an extensive range Heat and Control will showcase a selection of their available equipment so that visitors can see first-hand the build quality. This will include their latest generation FastBack Distribution system and the world’s only true multispectrum metal detector from CEIA. As exclusive representatives of industry leader, CEIA, Heat and Control offer their metal detection systems to the food and pharmaceutical industries.

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Gold Peg Gold Peg is an Australian company globally known for designing and manufacturing direct steam injection cooking and processing systems. Large multi-national companies, as well as independent food manufacturers choose Gold Peg equipment. Gold Peg says its systems are easy to use with automatic recipe systems, require minimal maintenance, and are fully hygienic.

FreeTherm and Pizza Cheese Building on its expertise and reputation in direct steam injection cooking, Gold Peg is launching a new processing range of equipment at ProPak Asia 2019, one of which is a batch processing system called FreeTherm Paula Bell, Marketing Manager, Gold Peg, says, “Freetherm is purposedesigned for the region’s cooking and processing requirements.

“Whilst Gold Peg’s name is strongly related to continuous cooking success, we acknowledge that continuous cooking is not feasible for all situations.

Therefore, we have designed the FreeTherm batch processing system.”

The FreeTherm brings elements of the proven efficient and effective

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With the FreeTherm the product is: • Mixed by two independently controlled augers • Heated with unique Gold Peg Direct Steam Injectors which eliminate hot spots • De-aerated using an integrated vacuum system • Held in an insulated buffer tank once processed for delivery to downstream system Throughout the process the product temperature is accurately monitored

by Gold Peg’s unique self-cleaning temperature probes. The FreeTherm is available with various capacities.

Gold Peg will also be launching a new process for manufacturing ‘Pizza Cheeses’ at the show. Pizza cheeses are types of pasta filata that are made purely from powder or with some natural cheese content.

The Natec Network recognised the growing popularity and global market demand for Pizza Cheese, and in response, the strength of the Natec Network R&D team developed a new process for its production. The robust process can optimally produce ‘Pizza Cheese’ across the full range of recipe and compositions. The new process utilises a RotaTherm continuous cooker, or a FreeTherm batch processor, in combination with a unique new equipment unit called a ‘Finisher’.

Gold Peg are part of the innovative market leading Natec Network with Hochland Natec.

Gold Peg will exhibit together and Hochland Natec in the Bavarian pavilion under the listing of Hochland Natec at ProPak.

Maselli Maselli Asia Pacific are the regional hub for Maselli (Parma Italy) who have been in business since 1948. Maselli has made a significant contribution to the evolution of technology and understanding of liquid analysis systems. They design and produce automatic on-line and laboratory liquid analysers operating in the most varied sectors, from food and beverage through to harsh environments and chemical applications. Their systems for the measurement of brix, diet, CO2, O2, alcohol and liquid concentration are used by the world’s leading companies. Maselli says it is recognised as a market leader in this field of technology.

According to Sean Herrington, Managing Director, Maselli Asia Pacific, they will be presenting new solutions to market and will use ProPak Asia as the launch platform for the ASEAN region.

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equipment we are launching at ProPak this year.

“We will showcase our new LP10 and LP20 series range of laboratory and portable liquid analysers for Brix, CO2, O2, Alcohol designed to meet the current needs of the alcohol, beer and soft drink producers in the region.”

Today, tna is a leading global supplier of integrated food processing and packaging solutions with over 14,000 systems installed across more than 120 countries. The company provides a comprehensive range of products including materials handling, processing, cooling and freezing, coating, distribution, seasoning, weighing, packaging, inserting and labelling, metal detection, verification and end-of-line solutions.

Zaw Htoo Aung, General Manager – tna Asia, confirmed that this will be tna solution’s sixth time exhibiting at ProPak Asia.

Zaw Htoo says, “Asia is a key market for the complete line of innovative, turnkey solutions due to its immense potential for future growth. Following the recent acquisitions of FOODesign, Florigo and NID, tna solutions now offer food manufacturers an even wider portfolio of food production equipment for a range of applications including snacks, confectionery, French fries and fresh and frozen products. It is great to have the opportunity to showcase this at a premier event such as ProPak Asia.

“The Asian food industry is changing rapidly at the moment. There are so many new product launches on the market that it is becoming increasingly

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tna food processing tna started in Sydney in 1982 as a consulting company to the food packaging industry. In 1984, the company was incorporated to develop high-speed vertical form fill and seal (VFFS) packaging machines and launched its first product, the tna robag, in the Australian market. Based on ground-breaking rotary continuous motion and the now-famous ‘stripping’ action using rotary jaws, the tna robag completely redefined the performance standards of VFFS systems and is still one the best-selling VFFS machines in the world.

challenging for manufacturers to keep up with the latest trends. As a single source supplier, we are well-positioned to deliver local food manufacturers forward-thinking solutions that can provide them with the flexibility they need to quickly change their production setup. Whether this is a seasoning machine that allows for quick flavour changes or a packaging system that can handle a variety of different bag formats on the same line, the less time manufacturers waste on changeovers, setups, cleaning or repairs, the more profitable they are and our solutions can help them achieve this.”

Latest VFFS packaging system to be showcased on stand The tna robag® FX 3ci is a rotary vertical, form, fill and seal (VFFS) packaging system. Compact and easyto-clean, this turnkey system is designed to package at top speeds from a single tube with triple rotary jaw action for a wide range of products.

Come and meet the Australian exhibitors and see what new and innovative products and solutions they will be showcasing to suit the ASEAN Region.

Propak Asia 2019 Known as Asia’s number one packaging and processing exhibition ProPak Asia 2019 will showcase over 20,000 products and solutions across 1900 exhibitors from 50 countries within 9 zones over 4 days. There will be 18 pavilions from 13 countries including Australia, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, UK, and USA. To be held from the 12 to 15th of June in Bangkok, Thailand, ProPak Asia has been serving the ASEAN Region for 27 years and is the regional hub for connecting packaging and processing manufacturers and suppliers.

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Australia & NZ recognised at WorldStar Packaging Awards Australia & NZ packaging innovations were recognised in the 2019 WorldStar Packaging Awards held in Prague, Czech Republic

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hree Australian companies and one New Zealand company have achieved international recognition for their innovative and unique packaging designs in the prestigious WorldStar Packaging Awards for 2019.

The winning companies include Caps and Closures for Precise Pour, Ilnam Estate for 8 Kangaroos, Lactote for Polatote and Radix Nutrition for their Foil Packaging Breakfast Pouch and were across three categories, Beverage, Food and Domestic & Household. Radix Nutrition is the first New Zealand company to be awarded a WorldStar Packaging Award for the Food Category. A delegation from both Australia and New Zealand that included Radix Nutrition and Caps and Closures proudly attended the 2019 WorldStar Packaging Awards in Prague, Czech Republic.

This international recognition follows on from wins at the 2018 Packaging Innovation & Design (PIDA) Awards, run by the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) and Packaging New Zealand. The PIDA Awards are the exclusive feeder program for Australia and New Zealand into the WorldStar Packaging Awards.

Company: Caps and Closures Country: Australia Category: Domestic & Household The Precise Pour takes a leap forward in the functionality of the simple tap, both for the consumer and the packer. It is simple to apply, intuitive to use, hard to damage and www.propack.pro

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performs unlike any other tap on the market. The Precise Pour has features in all areas of the cap which create a user experience like no other. It is tamper evident, anti-surge, variable flow, 180 degree opening action, 360 degree pour, it has anti-binding lugs and has an anti-drip lip.

Company: Radix Nutrition Country: New Zealand Category: Food The Radix Nutrition foil breakfast packaging is simple to use, accessible in any situation, preserves nutrients and there is no food waste. The packaging needed to be durable, yet lightweight as they didn’t want to create problems for their users as a lot of their consumers are marathon runners, athletes, rugby players, endurance long distance runners, cyclists, campers and many other outdoor loving people. These users want to enjoy their athletic and

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outdoor endeavours and to avoid increases in the weight of their kit so their pouch had to be highly functional, yet add no additional weight.

Company: Ilnam Estate Country: Australia Category: Beverage 8 Kangaroos by Ilnam Estate have been awarded the win for a unique and innovative wine bottle shaped like a kangaroo. In addition, all raw materials were chosen for their ability to be recycled, with extensive thought and consideration in the development of transport packaging to suit the shape of the bottle. The bottle’s unique shape makes it unlikely that it will be thrown away after initial use. It is envisaged that the bottle will be retained and used as a decanter, water bottle or just a curious item on a shelf. The bottle being embossed at the base with the brand name means the brand will live on after the label has gone and the wine consumed. Destined to be extremely successful in the international dutyfree market the family-owned business has developed an outstanding and innovative packaging design.

Company: Lactote Country: Australia Category: Beverage Polatote is both an off-the-shelf supermarket/liquor shop beverage multipack and a portable ice cooler. No longer do you need an Esky style ice container and/or the traditional ice bucket to keep your drinks cold.

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1 highly functional shrinkfilm multipack with global influence and appeal.

It is an ice cooler, or more accurately, a method for controlling the temperature of beverages in and outdoors. It is a comfortable, convenient and sturdy parcel/package for personal carrying and an easily and safely palletised multi-pack for general transportation and distribution. Polatote is a container to ensure original contents once consumed are recycled and do not become litter. Polatote replaces the standard type of beverage packaging presently used to deliver bottles of all types, metal cans and Tetra type cardboard packs to the marketplace.

Keith Chessell awarded Lifetime Achievement Award Also in attendance at the 2019 WorldStar Packaging Awards was Keith Chessell FAIP, who was recognised for his significant contribution to the packaging industry over the last 50 years with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Packaging Organisation (WPO). Only three people from across the globe received this recognition.

Chessell has had 46 years with the one company in the Food, Beverage & Confectionery industry (Parsons, Cottee’s, Schweppes, Pepsi, Cadbury, Kraft/Mondelez). Over that extensive period, he was involved in a range of management roles including raw & packaging materials procurement, research and development involving the innovation and launch of new products and the relaunch of existing products and packaging. Chessell has a broad range of experience across the industry, and is well-known as a leading packaging technologist in both Australia and New Zealand. Over the last 17 years his focus has been in the training, education and assisting individuals and manufacturers in 16 ProPack.pro June 2019

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2 understanding the importance of sustainable packaging design. In more recent years he has been actively involved with the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) in providing packaging technical expertise for industry-based Sustainable Packaging and Save Food Packaging programs for Australia and NZ. In the last ten years in particular Chessell has been an active volunteer for the AIP and represents the Institute on the Standards Australia EV-021-03 Environmental Labelling Committee, is the AIP Board newly appointed Board Member on the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), and is on the APCO Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). Keith has invested a significant amount of volunteer hours into the Sustainable Packaging TAC and the Standards Committee all during his retirement. Chessell also provides technical support and leadership for the AIP’s partnership in the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Fight Food Waste and also served as the AIP’s representative on the National Food Waste Strategy Manufacturing and Distribution Supply Chain Advisory Group.

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Chessell has been a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Packaging (FAIP) since 2008 and was awarded AIP Life Membership in 2018 for his recent contributions to industry education in Save Food Packaging, Fighting Food Waste and Sustainable Packaging in Australia and New Zealand Chessell has been a significant contributor to the technical side of all of the AIP industry-based Save Food and Fighting Food Waste programs with the Federal Government National Food Waste Strategy and also the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre.

Chessell’s packaging technical expertise have ensured that the AIP programs are realistic and suited to packaging technologists and designers.

He is an integral part of this team and has invested hundreds of hours in volunteering his time and knowledge to ensure that both programs have been developed and are underway in Australia and New Zealand.

Chessell has been a stalwart of the Australia and New Zealand packaging community for close to 50 years and since his retirement he has invested even more time in giving back to the industry. Chessell has a true passion to ensure that packaging technologists and designers better understand Sustainable Packaging and Save Food Packaging and the AIP says it is proud that he is a part of the Institute.

As noted by his colleagues in the industry and the AIP, Keith Chessell is a truly kind and generous person who always helps everyone around him with no hesitation. www.propack.pro

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PACKAGING: integrated, versioned and personalised Rainer Hundsdรถrfer CEO, Heidelberg

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Packaging: integrated, versioned, and personalised of technology leadership, digital transformation and operational excellence.”

ProPack.pro interviewed Hundsdörfer, and discussed where the packaging market is now, where it is going, and how the company plans to navigate new waters and markets.

Heidelberg’s digitisation strategy transforms company into a 21st Century press manufacturer

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he Global Financial Crisis (GFC) delivered an opportunity for the big offset press manufacturers to step back and to re-evaluate the companies they needed to become for the future. Heidelberg looked to digital transformation, and invested into the label and packaging sectors to secure the 169-year old company a future as bright as its past.

As Heidelberg chief executive officer Rainer Hundsdörfer explains, it was a matter of changing the entire business model in order to migrate the company into a digital future.

He says, “We made great progress in transforming Heidelberg into a digital company last year. The strategic focus is on the requirements of our customers and the endeavor to generate value added in terms of efficiency, profitability and success in a dynamically changing world. We have brought together the necessary strategic pillars in the three core areas

Rainer Hundsdörfer, CEO, Heidelberg

1. The picture shows the assembly of the Gallus Lablefire at the WieslochWalldorf site.

How does Heidelberg see itself working successfully with printing and packaging companies over the next few years?

Customers are at the heart of our business, and our customer-centric approach is continually advanced. We have geared our portfolio towards the growth areas of our industry. It is based on products for prepress, printing and further processing, service, consumables and software solutions, with a strong focus on a digital future.

Also and above all, the potential resulting from combining individual product portfolio offerings to create an end-to-end productive solution for customers must be leveraged to increase productivity and profitability for our customers and us. What we do – which is unique on the market – is to create a smart end-to-end system from a data-supported configuration of all equipment, consisting of machinery, software, service and consumables. In March this year our partner Masterwork

became an anchor shareholder with a long-term investment horizon that now holds around 8.5 percent of our shares.

Taking the collaboration with Masterwork, which dates back to 2014, to the next level is also designed to open up further potential in the growing packaging printing segment, especially in China – the world’s largest individual market.

Do you see profitable opportunities for traditional printers to enter the package printing and converting market?

Each print shop has to do its own business plan and decide what business model will be the best for it.

However we will be the partner and our experts from Lifecycle Solutions are able to do the consulting and get all the data for an individual decision. Maybe the print shop has a steady growth rate and is therefore interested or fits into our Subscription model. Then Heidelberg will take care of all the machines, software, consumables and services and the customer is able to fully concentrate on their customers – whether they are in the traditional, packaging or label segment.

With print volumes declining, how does Heidelberg see the future for offset?

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Why digitisation? Why has Heidelberg chosen to go in this direction?

Digitisation is the key to stay successful in the future in most industries, and the print media industry is definitely not an exception. Future success is based on the possibility of collecting and utilising data from the solution system used by the customer. This data sheds light on the aspects of value creation and usage. It enables conclusions to be drawn on an ongoing basis about the use of the product portfolio. This in turn paves the way for new billing and business models from manufacturers, the continuous agile further development of the portfolio, and reduced investment risks.

What advantages and benefits will the digitisation strategy give customers?

Industrialisation and consolidation in our industry will go on. Therefore, digitisation is not an end in itself, but the most important component in being able to continue to be profitable as a media service provider in the future. By digitisation and integration of all processes our customers get the full overview where they earn and most of all where they lost money. The Smart Print Shop that Heidelberg offers is a perfect interaction of people, machines, materials and processes.

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digital cooperation with the customer throughout the entire life cycle and assists in productivity enhancement with big data performance analysis, Heidelberg already has a digitisation solution that redefines the foundations of the customer-supplier relationship.

Heidelberg has developed its software solutions towards a cloud-based subscription model. The more powerful digitisation becomes, the more productive the value chain of a print provider will be - from prepress to printing and further processing.

Digitisation integrates the customers of the printing companies as well as the entire logistics processes with invoicing and delivery. This is all the more important as short runs and frequent job changes are in vogue, and print shop staff should be supported at this level of productivity.

How can this strategy help converters and packaging companies?

Overall, there is not a big difference in what digitisation means for a commercial or a packing printer. For both the path is the same. Both have to walk the talk.

However, folding carton printing is much more complex than commercial printing, simply because of finishing and issues such as serialisation, colour migration or colour constancy.

Therefore, the quest for industrialised and digitised production started early here. Heidelberg is the only manufacturer to implement the integration of offset and digital printing including further processing via the Prinect workflow. This results in new business models for packaging printing such as Supply on Demand or Web to Pack.

Both technologies complement each other perfectly - offset printing scores points for longer print runs, and digital print shows its strength for shorter runs and orders with variable data.

Heidelberg’s offset and digital technologies overlap to complement each other. How does this work in practice?

This works quite well and is a unique selling proposition also. We are able to serve the full value chain of our customers with a fully integrated smart solution from pre-press, press to postpress, including workflow, consumables, service and consulting.

The customer can choose between offset and digital systems as it is best for their business model and we always help them to find out which investment supports the business best. And in addition with our digital system Primefire 106 we create new market opportunities for our customers. At Print China this year some 1,000 people visited the open house at Heidelberg customer Xianjunlong, where Web to Pack was demonstrated – starting with the web-to-pack platform, then printing on a Primefire 106, and finishing off with the postpress processing systems from Masterworks a partner of Heidelberg. The same customer also bought a new Speedmaster CD 1028+L, assembled in our factory in Qingpu nearby Shanghai.

In packaging, what are the main challenges for Heidelberg?

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through personalisation. The challenges are then individualisation and growing cost pressure as well as falling margins. Brand owners want maximum attention for their products at the point of sales through differentiation and embellishments.

For all these we do have answers and solutions.

With this range, Heidelberg cements its position as the leader in packaging printing and provides answers to current and future requirements in the age of digitisation. We make our customers more productive and therefore also more profitable.

It all has to do with productivity.

OEEs (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) values of over 50 per cent are absolutely achievable in the long term. This is made possible by lean, intelligently controlled processes that systematically minimise the influence of the operator on productivity and deliver real-time, transparent, and accurate performance data. What is important here is maximum integration without system breaks – starting from the customer all the way to the delivered product. The Prinect modules offer a variety of coordinated solutions here.

To increase productivity and reduce process interventions, Heidelberg has been developing the innovative Smart Print Shop with the Push to Stop operating concept since drupa 2016, clearing the way for autonomous printing. Until now over 400 machines are already sold with this new concept.

In packaging printing with its high complexity and many spot colors, navigated printing helps the operator to achieve the best possible result within the shortest time.

What can you say on the history of Heidelberg in the Asia Pacific region (ANZ, South East Asia/ASEAN) and where it is heading?

In Asia Pacific Heidelberg has for many years been the dominant supplier with a plethora of equipment being installed across the entire region.

With many Speedmaster VLF 162 cm presses in Indonesia, China and Japan to high tech Speedmaster XL presses in Australia, Japan and Korea the technology is a clear statement that high productivity, Smart Automation and data workflow is sought after by these mature and emerging markets.

These customers value our unparalleled service infrastructure in Asia Pacific and our Saphira consumables which contribute to the

Australia and South East Asia. As you can see, our future-oriented activities in Asia Pacific are well under way.

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Short term, how do you see print and packaging evolving over the next few years?

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high productivity of our equipment.

The well-proven Speedmaster CD/CX press line is the largest seller in Asia. In all over 700 printing units are still sold each year in this region including China.

With our Gallus presses we have a strong position in important label markets like Australia, India and South East Asia. In Australia we just commissioned two of our Labelfire digital systems for very short-run label jobs.

Combine that with the full suite of prepress products and the MK finishing equipment and you have a powerful argument as to why Heidelberg is the partner of choice.

This is a very sound basis for further growth in Asia Pacific. Growth markets such as Vietnam, Philippines and Bangladesh have started to value the Heidelberg offerings and this will add to important role Asia-Pacific is playing for Heidelberg.

When it comes to Heidelberg’s innovations and new business models our customers in Asia Pacific are as excited as the ones in Europe and America. Take our new Subscription Model for instance. Our first user is a smaller commercial printer in India.

The second contract is with a high quality and performance printer in New Zealand. This underlines that the interest in the Subscription business model spreads across all market segments and countries, whether emerging markets or more mature markets.

A word about digital printing: Asian printers have always called for flexible and sturdy equipment. The environment in the print shops can differ from what we know from Europe or Australia. This is why you need to offer an extensively tested and reliable digital system in these markets. This stage we have now reached with our Primefire for the packaging segment and our Labelfire for the label segment.

We have installed our first 106 Primefire in China and have already installed three Gallus Labelfire presses in

While print volumes are continuing to grow overall in the emerging economies, print service providers in the industrialised nations are facing a highly dynamic and rapidly changing market environment.

There are also technological changes. Two-thirds of the ppv is created using sheetfed offset, flexographic and digital printing processes, and the trend is rising.

Digital printing has steadily increased its share of the global printing volume to around 15 per cent since 2000, and the trend towards customisation means that it will continue to gain in importance, particularly in industrial applications.

Flexo printing, an important technology on the packaging market, continues to benefit from the stable and significant growth in packaging and labels, and holds a share of around 13 per cent of global print volumes. With three per cent packaging print has the fastest growing range, while label printing has the greatest growth potential – mainly in the inkjet area – and commercial printing is developing stably.

What do you see as the three main challenges for the industry and individual companies in the near term and in the long-term?

Across all areas of the printing industry, industrialisation and digitisation are driving structural change. To be highly competitive productivity is a key factor.

This increases capacity utilisation and, ultimately, the overall effectiveness of the system.

How will Heidelberg help businesses to meet and overcome those challenges?

Heidelberg is the leading provider in the industry that can guarantee digitised and industrial packaging production with a defect-free, standardised end result. As an end-to-end system provider of printing presses, consumables, software and consulting we are actively shaping digitalisation in our industry.

Digital business models like Subscription will change everything.

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he Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Awards (PIDA) have been designed by the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) and Packaging New Zealand to recognise companies and individuals who are making a significant difference in their field across the two countries.

The PIDA Awards are the exclusive feeder program for the prestigious WorldStar Packaging Awards run by the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) with the 2019 PIDA winners automatically eligible for entry into the 2020 international competition.

1. Lewis Road Creamery rPET milk bottle range

2019 Packaging Innovation & Design of the Year Award Beverage Category

2. Stray Tray’s reusable drink tray

The Beverage category recognises organisations that have designed innovative packaging and processing materials, packaging and machinery/ equipment within packaging and processing for liquid or dry tea, coffee, water and soft drinks including wine, beer and spirits.

3. Moonuka Milk beverage

Gold Winner: PACT Group for the New Zealand brand Lewis Road Creamery post-consumer sourced PCR, 100% recycled rPET milk bottle range.

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design stand out on shelf as they are based on old-style glass milk bottles.

This has enabled the boutique brand to achieve a nostalgic feel and a new level of authenticity. The rPET bottles have a sturdy glass like premium-feel that captures the brand’s history and credentials. This is the first Australasian milk producer to change to 100% rPET that is also 100% recyclable.

Silver Winner: Stay Tray. The reusable drink tray that is designed with 100% recycled material sourced from Australian businesses to reduce single use.

Bronze Winner: Moonuka Milk Limited. The world’s first Milk and

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Manuka Honey beverage designed in New Zealand in an old-fashioned Aseptic PET milk bottle with a removable PET shrink sleeve.

Finalist: Shine Drink custom tall and thin 400ml beverage bottle that conjures thoughts of health and wellbeing through bottle shape and the shrink sleeve label design.

2019 Packaging Innovation & Design of the Year Award – Food Category The Food category recognises organisations that have designed innovative packaging and processing materials, packaging and machinery/ equipment within food packaging and processing including fresh, frozen or other.

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Gold Winner: Danone ELN NZ Supply Point. For the sachet multipack with both Aptamil and Karicare Infant Formula ranges for sale in Australia and New Zealand, the packaging format had to meet the consumer expectations of being easy-to-open (no tools to assist opening such as scissors), easy-to-pour (must have a pour opening that will fit inside a baby bottle) and easy-to-carry around in a handbag or baby bag.

Danone also designed their own sealing jaw that was manufactured locally and incorporates a cutting form that allows for perforations to be formed in the modified sealing area. This allows for

easy opening by the consumer without scissors. Danone are the first to develop an easy-to-open pack without the use of scissors in this category across ANZ. Silver Winner: Don KRC, a Division of George Weston Foods, for the Just Add Don convenient stand-up pouch.

This pack was created for a range of smallgoods cooking ingredients, perfectly cut and portioned to help prepare meals easily. Previously such products were packaged in modified atmosphere trays and were difficult to open and reclose. The new pouch is resealable, lightweight, designed to extend shelf life and meets redcycle criteria.

Bronze Winner: OJI Fibre Solutions for RJ’s Licorice open top & open front Shelf Friendly Packaging. Designed to withstand export from New Zealand to Australia as well as handle stacking from pallet displays straight into supermarkets.

Finalists: Punchbowl Packaging for the Kaituna Blueberries peel-able, re-sealable, tamper-proof top seal fibre punnets, OJI Fibre Solutions for Turks Poultry Farm to hold 6kg of chicken in a hand-erected case and designed to be interchangeable with the 12kg cases to fit in mixed pallets, OF Packaging for the Pacific West baking pouch which is entirely oven-safe and houses the seafood product.

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2019 Packaging Innovation & Design of the Year Award – Health, Beauty & Wellness

1. 100% recycled PE and sugar cane PE tube

The Health, Beauty & Wellness category recognises organisations that have designed innovative packaging and processing materials, packaging and machinery/equipment within cosmetics, toiletries, personal hygiene, supplements, vitamins, perfumes, hair body and oral care.

2. Essano brand PCR 100% recycled rPET shampoo bottles

Gold Winner: Impact International for the Sarah, Craig and Margorie 100% recycled PE and sugar cane PE tubes. The Craig tube can also be offered as a 5-layer EVOH tube, which helps improve product shelf life by increasing the oxygen barrier properties of the tube. These tubes are designed to be environmentallyfriendly, improve packaging functionality, utilise smart technologies and also provide protection to the brand owner against counterfeit products. By scanning the

3. EcoStore gift packs compostable boxes 4. Nulon Ezy-Squeeze fluid transfer system 5. Kookaburra Worm Farms Flat Bottom Bag

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QR code on the Sarah and Margorie tubes, you will be redirected to the Impact website, which explains what makes each tube unique and special.

Silver Winner: PACT Group for the New Zealand’s Mix Ltd Essano brand post-consumer sourced (PCR) 100% recycled rPET shampoo bottle range.

The new rPET range replaced the former HDPE design. Based on Essano’s volumes, this equates to approximately 56 tonnes kilograms of plastic that has been reused and diverted from landfill.

Bronze Winner: OJI Fibre Solutions for EcoStore Gift Packs.

These packs hold product in place in smaller, lighter, eco-friendly 100% recyclable and compostable boxes.

Finalist: Retreatment Botanics skincare range which is inspired by Gaia Retreat & Spa owner Olivia Newton-John who wanted to see a fully-sustainable skincare range in terms of ingredients, primary and secondary packaging.

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2019 Packaging Innovation & Design of the Year Award – Domestic & Household The Domestic & Household category recognises organisations that have designed innovative packaging and processing materials, packaging and machinery/equipment within domestic and household items, toys, stationary, gifts, clothing, garden equipment, decorating.

Gold Winner: Nulon Products Australia & Caps and Closures for the Nulon EZY-SQUEEZE fluid transfer system. This replaces the traditional rigid packaging with a flexible pouch and applicator that has made accessing hard-to-reach fill points on a car quick and easy. The new packaging now makes it easier, quicker, with less waste and no pumps.

Silver Winner: OF Packaging for the Kookaburra Worm Farms Flat Bottom Bag with Perforated Side Gussets. This bag provides the required oxygen levels for the living product inside and

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Finalist: OJI Fibre Solutions for Dynex Extrusion Case, sold into hardware stores in New Zealand but is also ready-to-go once a customer/ builder takes it home to use.

6. Currie Group’s new printing technology 7. SPC Easy-Open Diced Fruit 8. Non symmetrical packaging design for Chobani Australia

2019 Packaging Innovation & Design of the Year Award – Labelling & Decoration NEW AWARD – The new Labelling & Decoration Category was created to recognise the addition of content to a pack that creates a unique or

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Gold Winner: Currie Group. The new

transformational printing technology for packaging that showcases high-end printing, finishing, coding, marking and AR technology driving awareness to The Australian Rhino Project (TARP).

Silver Winner: Metalprint Australia for Chobani Australia Spooky Vanilla Ghost Shaped Pouch. This product delivers a unique and creative nonsymmetrical packaging design.

2019 Accessible Packaging Design Special Award NEW AWARD – The new Accessible Packaging Design Special Award is designed to recognise packaging that is accessible, intuitive, easy-to-open and innovative. Accessible Packaging Design needs to include measuring techniques, understanding injuries caused by packaging and consumer satisfaction levels with packaging accessibility. This award category is sponsored by Arthritis Australia and Arthritis New Zealand.

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Gold Winner: SPC Ardmona for their SPC ProVital Easy-Open Diced Fruit in Jelly range. Designed for all consumers to open, including those with reduced fine motor skills, dexterity and strength, this pack achieved an ISR +8 accessibility rating (i.e. the product is universally easy-to-open, with 95% of the population able to open the pack without tools). The key design features of the ProVital pack are the textured and lengthened pull tab, combined

Encouraging Innovation “The purpose of the PIDA Award program is to encourage and recognise companies to be innovative in their packaging designs and also encourage companies to consider designing innovative and unique packaging that focuses on issues such as Saving Food, Sustainability and Accessibility. The PIDA Award provides an exclusive platform for global entry into the WorldStar Packaging Awards where companies from Australia and New Zealand can be recognised on a global scale for their packaging designs. The PIDAs are also an opportunity to recognise individuals for their significant contributions to the packaging industry.” - Nerida Kelton, AIP

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with the easy grip decagon cup shape and low opening force. Testing undertaken by SPC has shown that the majority of patients experienced no pain when opening the pack. The final aspect that set this entry apart was the presentation of all the key information on the packaging. The instructions were clear and helpful, and the required information was very easy to read, with the use of the appropriate font size and excellent print contrast.

Silver Winner: Flavour Creations.

This pre-thickened Ready-To-Drink (RTD) range packaged in the new Dysphagia Cup and Cup Holder is designed to specifically increase rates of hydration and decrease rates of malnutrition for residents/patients with Dysphagia. Along with the Continued on page 26 June 2019 ProPack.pro 25

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reusable holder and plastic over seal, the snap fitting portion control cup has a large overhanging tab that is textured. The clear and legible ‘peel back’ wording allows consumers to understand how to open the product.

Special Commendation: Moana New Zealand & Sealed Air for Cryovac® Grip and Tear® (including ‘small tab’).

Designed to foster ease-of-use for packaged meat, poultry, seafood products for processors, food service and retail markets, this Accessible Packaging Design enables convenient product access using a packaging design that is simple and intuitive for consumers to use; irrespective of their age or functional abilities. Previously these difficult to open items required opening tools, which could easily cause injuries. The Grip and Tear feature means the packs can now be easily opened by a simple hand action. Sealed Air have undertaken significant design innovation in the development of the Grip and Tear feature to meet both the food handling and food protection requirements for the range of products proposed for the packaging format.

2019 Finalist: Campbell Arnott’s for their redesign of 10 SKUs from their catering (portion control packaging) range.

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Packaging Awards category. The winner was awarded a custom EcodEX packaging environmental assessment valued at $10,000, sponsored by Empauer.

Gold Winner: Hazeldene’s Chicken Farm & Sealed Air for Cryovac Darfresh on Tray vacuum skin technology. This technology has been engineered to address key challenges facing our world’s food processing industry including food safety, shelf life extension, operational efficiency and brand building. The pack can provide an increase of shelf life by 25% over existing MAP applications. Food waste reduction is further facilitated by the fact that the packaging is easy-to-open as the tear tab and peelable top film allows for easy product access. This means no knives and no product damage. The pack is also freezer-ready and the vacuum environment ensures no product dehydration. The shelf life is visible and easy to find on the front of the pack and makes meal planning for less waste easier. Serving size has been optimised to serve 2x meeting the needs of today’s typical household. This efficient portion size also further helps reduce food waste.

Silver Winner: Flavour Creations.

This pre-thickened Ready-To-Drink (RTD) range of packaging is shelf-stable with 12 months shelf life when unopened. When the RTDs are packaged in the new Dysphagia Cup and Cup Holder they are designed to reduce food for special medical purposes by enabling better motor control of the drinking process, improving grip, stability and ensuring

the ability to consume the full contents.

Best Before Dates are clearly legible on all packaging further helping to reduce food wastage.

Finalist: Plantic Technologies for the Plantic RV Material that was designed for Moana seafood company to be able to supply fresh fish to the on-line meal delivery company ‘My Food Bag’.

2019 Sustainable Packaging Design Special Award The Sustainable Packaging Design Award is designed to recognise companies that have developed innovative packaging or processing solutions that incorporates sustainability considerations. Elements include Social, Material, Source Reduction, Energy and Recovery.

Due to the overwhelming number of submissions to this category and the difference styles of packaging entered, the award winners were separated in to two subset categories – Materials and Circular Economy. The Gold winners for each category were awarded a custom EcodEX packaging environmental assessment valued at $10,000 sponsored by Empauer.

Materials Awards Materials Gold Winner: Punchbowl

Packaging for the Kaituna Blueberries peel-able, re-sealable, tamper-proof top seal fibre punnets. Punchbowl’s design approach was to deliver a simple, practical and sustainable solution for customers, while ensuring a range of ‘end of life’ options for the packaging.

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achieve a 10% weight reduction compared with the standard 125 grams blueberries plastic labelled clamshell. The punnet is made from renewable unbleached wheat straw and is compostable in industrial compost systems. The punnet is also recyclable, with pulpability testing indicating a 95% fibre yield result and cleverly Kaituna have developed reuse opportunities for the punnet as seedling plant pots.

“We are a small family owned company and we have a team of 8 that all worked on this project. We faced a few challenges – we had a perishable product with blueberries that don’t wait for hold-ups. We got through it as a team and we believe it is a great product. We will gladly place this in the trophy cabinet next to the 2019 Rugby World Cup.” – Shane Craig, Punchbowl Packaging.

Materials Silver winner: Plantic Technologies for the NEAT Meat Tray.

This product uses PLANTIC™ RV high barrier Skin Pack recyclable material to replace their previous nonrecyclable tray made from black HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene). The rPET is sourced from New Zealand and Australian recycled post-consumer PET bottles and in plant PET waste from both the manufacturing of the PLANTIC™ RV tray and other waste PET streams. The addition of the Australasian Recycling logo to the Neat Meats pack will assist consumers to correctly dispose of the packaging.

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three tube packaging options to replace fossil fuel plastic tube packaging. The Sarah, Craig and Margorie range are 100% recycled PE and sugar cane PE tubes. The use of recycled PE with the Sarah & Margorie tubes meets the 2025 Targets of including recycled content. Impact International is a registered public drop off point for a global recycling program which provides consumers an additional facility to return and recycle tubes.

Materials Special Commendation:

Woolworths. By undertaking a major project in replacing their previous black plastic non-recyclable plastic trays with a renewable sourced pulp/plant-based fibre sourced from unbleached bamboo (40%) and unbleached sugarcane (60%), Woolworths reduced 265 tonnes of plastic annually from their bakery department. This national changeover across all stores for over 50 in-store bakery products represents 75% of all products that were previously packed in the black plastic non-recyclable tray.

Materials Special Commendation:

Ranpak for the Thermal Paper Packaging Solution. Ranpak’s packaging is biodegradable, recyclable and renewable and using the Ranpak equipment it provides companies with flexibility to generate packaging as required, pre-sized and pre-cut. This flexibility provides huge space saving opportunities compared to plastic and EPS versions of thermal protection.

Circular Economy Awards Circular Economy Gold Winner: PACT

Group for the New Zealand brand Lewis Road Creamery post-consumer sourced PCR 100% recycled rPET milk

bottle range. The rPET bottles and simple label design stand out on shelf as they are based on the old-style glass milk bottles. This has enabled the boutique brand to achieve a nostalgic feel and a new level of authenticity. The rPET bottles have a sturdy glass like premium feel that captures the brand’s history and credentials. This is the first Australasian milk producer to change to 100% rPET, that is also 100% recyclable.

“This has been a very big project for Lewis Road. We are a 20-person team in New Zealand, and we started this project with the aim to make a change and to encourage other dairy companies to do the same. We spoke to Alto and they said they could come up with something and we are proud to be the first milk company to put our milk in bottles that were made from 100 per cent recycled plastic. The line for our campaign is that we love fresh milk, not fresh plastic. We are incredibly proud to have done that and we hope a lot of other companies will join us on that journey as well.” – Lucy Sorensen from Lewis Road Creamery.

Circular Economy Special Commendation: Detpak RecycleMe

system. This special commendation recognises Detpak’s initiative and investment in the development of the RecycleMe system, combining circular economy thinking to maintain high material value to address a single use packaging item. In the development of the program, Detpak started at the endmarket (mill) perspective to ensure the acceptance of their innovative cup Continued on page 28 June 2019 ProPack.pro 27

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Finalists: PACT Group for the New Zealand’s Mix Ltd Essano rPET shampoo range, Multivac & Greenham for Cape Grim Beef Paperboard Skin Packaging, Storopack Australia for their PAPERPlus Classic Grass Paper Packaging.

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2 2019 Industry Packaging Professional of the Year Award The Industry Packaging Professional of the Year Award is designed to recognise and acknowledge the outstanding achievements and contribution by an individual currently working within the Packaging industry. The judges were looking for an individual who have demonstrated vision and leadership, shows innovation and who is not afraid to take risks. For significant and continued contribution of an Individual to the packaging and Processing industry over a minimum period of 25 years.

The winner is Joe Foster, Co-Founder & Director, OF Packaging.

Joe Foster has had a passion for flexible packaging for most of his life and has run four businesses across four countries over the last forty years. Joe has spent the majority of his career working to not only understand flexible packaging at its core but progress the possibilities of flexible plastics with a continued focus on packaging innovation. Joe Foster’s true legacy has nothing revolves around his resoundingly passionate attitude towards flexible packaging. Joe sees beyond what flexible packaging is, to what it can be, and hopes to create an evolved understanding of flexible packaging and the place it holds in

NZ companies topping awards The PIDAs have grown with the level of interest in the 2019 programme surpassing all expectations and New Zealand companies dominating the top awards giving those companies exclusive access into the prestigious WorldStar Awards programme and recognition on the global stage. The PIDA platform demonstrates a strategic intent to focus Packaging New Zealand’s activities across two workstreams – advocacy and packaging promotion.

Clearly successful advocacy is reliant on being able to showcase industry progress in design and innovation which demonstrates it is meeting the demands of what society is looking for in its products. As a platform for showcasing innovative design and processing capability within the packaging industry, the PIDAs are assisting the industry in countering criticisms that businesses are not committed to continued improvement across all aspects of sustainability; financial, social and environmental. This open platform unites the industry around creative and passionate businesses and individuals who are driving the innovation and ingenuity which society is demanding from packaging of the future. The PIDAs are also the platform for awarding the Packaging NZ Annual Scholarship – a clear signal of investment from Packaging New Zealand into the future of the industry and support for individuals who are committed to building successful careers in this dynamic industry.

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“Normally I have quite a lot to say, but I am really overwhelmed. Thanks to the AIP and all of the organisers here tonight,” Foster said when he accepted the award.

“Packaging is my life and I know it is very hard to explain. Innovation is what I love and what I dream to do and I try to think outside the box.

Sometimes what tends to happen with packaging is the ideas are stopped because we don’t have the ability to manufacture the product or it is too costly. At O F Packaging (previously Omniverse Packaging), we say let’s think outside of the box, let’s come up with these new ideas and let’s figure out a way to make it work in the industry rather than saying no it is not possible, so ladies and gentlemen I am truly overwhelmed to say the least and I thank you so much for this award.”

2019 Finalists: Terry Waterson FAIP – Director, Metalprint Australia Elizabeth Kasell – Chief Executive Officer, RED Group

2019 Packaging New Zealand Scholarship The Packaging New Zealand Scholarship provides a Packaging professional who is looking to further their education the opportunity to enrol in the Diploma in Packaging Technology valued at $9000.

The winner is Poonam Patel, Senior Packaging Technologist, Goodman Fielder. Poonam believes that with a

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teasing out ideas, risks and mitigations with a more focused and technical view. Using the knowledge she gains from this course Poonam would like to turn theory into practice that is engaging; inspiring future generations with little awareness of this fascinating sector. For Poonam the journey doesn’t just stop at creating and innovating.

She recently read about the importance of women in the manufacturing environment and the part they actively play to grow the success of this sector.

Her aspiration is to not only be a part of this movement but to advocate to the up-coming generation of women joining the work force on the viability of a career in packaging technology.

“I’d like to thank AIP and Packaging NZ for awarding the scholarship,” Patel said when she accepted the award.

“I hope to fulfil the promise I made in my submission. I would like to thank Goodman Fielder and my manager Brian for supporting me as well as my parents and my sisters who are always encouraging me to do better. For me tonight is just the beginning and not the end.”

2019 Finalists: Tunde Lovestyan – Sales & Business Development Manager, Punchbowl Packaging Saurabh Mishra – Packaging Development Technologist, Griffins Foods Limited

2019 Young Packaging Professional of the Year Award The purpose of the Young Packaging Professional of the Year Award is to provide incentive and recognition to young professionals who are both currently working in and wish to continue their career path within the Packaging industry.

The Winner is Karunia Adhiputra, Packaging Technologist – Technical & Production, Nestle Australia. Whilst

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5 number of things in his career the one that stands out is the development of the Australasian Recycling Label program tracker and generator for Nestle. During the implementation and training of the ARL for Nestlé products, Adhi created an excel tracker which captures all products across Australia and New Zealand to assist in the auditing requirement of APCO members. Adhi is now responsible for training all Nestle packaging technologists in both ARL and PREP tools and he hopes that one day he will become a mentor to new packaging technologists and provide them with the skills required to become a successful and valuable contributor to the packaging industry.

“This is really exciting,” Adhiputra said when he accepted the award.

“Thank you to the AIP for not only this award but also for recognising all of the amazing work that is being done in the industry. I would like to thank them for providing the platform for us to collaborate and have knowledge sharing. I want to thank everyone at Nestle who have been my mentors – Jacqui, Raymond and Janelle, and without their help I wouldn’t be here today. And finally I want to thank everyone here in the industry, you make the industry so much fun to work with and I really can’t wait to work with you.”

Finalists: Lily Barnett – Program Coordinator, APCO Clement Jamet – Packaging Development Technologist, Danone ELN The AIP acknowledges the following sponsors: Wellman Packaging, Auspouch, Currie Group and HP, Esko, Kodak Australia, Mosca, Qenos, Sealed Air, Caps and Closures, Omniverse Foster, EcodDex, Empauer, Arthritis Australia, Arthritis New Zealand.

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PUBLISHER’S LETTER JAMES WELLS

Welcome to ProPack.pro We are very proud to bring you the first edition of ProPack.pro.

This the first launch from the Printer Media Group, following the acquisition of the Printer Magazines Group in late 2018 comprising Australian Printer, ProPrint and New Zealand Printer as well as two key industry events – Power 50 Australia and Power 50 New Zealand. Printer Media Group is a subsidiary of The Intermedia Group, a privately owned publisher that has operated for over 50 years. Operating in Australia and New Zealand, The Intermedia Group is one of the largest business to business companies of its kind, with over 25 separate publications operating in print and online as well as a number of key conferences and exhibitions complemented by a long

standing custom publishing division.

The official launch of ProPack.pro took place at ProPak Asia in Bangkok – the largest trade exhibition in the region, where a record number of Australian companies were represented – demonstrating the strength of export business in the region. The first edition of the magazine features an extensive 12-page overview of the Australian exhibitors at ProPak Asia, to provide further awareness of the country’s manufacturing and engineering expertise.

In this inaugural edition, we have also celebrated the winners from the Packaging Innovation and Design Awards (PIDAs), recently held in Sydney. Presented by the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) and

Packaging New Zealand, the awards recognise the membership, training and education from both TransTasman organisations. The PIDAs encourage companies to be innovative in their packaging designs and also provide an exclusive platform for global entry into the WorldStar Packaging Awards.

The 2019 WorldStar Packaging Awards were recently held in Prague and industry legend Keith Chessell was recognised for his service to the industry.

The ProPack.pro team are committed to providing you with the latest news and industry views – through both printed and online publications. To stay informed, sign up to receive regular industry news at www.propack.pro.

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