Packaging & Labelling Machinery Feature Articles

The Australian Government has big tobacco companies panicking with the introduction of a tobacco product plain packaging bill to Parliament in July.

The Australian Made logo has been appearing on Aussie made and grown products since 1986, but between unscrupulous companies and confused consumers, the buy Australian message remains ...

As consumer tastes become ever more sophisticated, the opportunity to innovate with ingredients is providing food manufacturers with a new point of difference over their more ...

With a new financial year upon us, <em>IndustrySearch</em> takes a look at the likely winners and losers across the industrial landscape in the coming 12 months.

The past four years has seen a dramatic growth in the use and availability of smart phones, and the handheld devices are now having a profound influence on the way many people do ...

Industrial caps and plugs may not be glamorous, but you and thousands of others still need them, and they better be fit for purpose.

The Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) has thrown its support behind a recent report that recommends targets for salt levels in common food products.

Today’s consumer has more choices on the shelf than ever before.

The question lingering over the latest bout of weak economic figures is whether they have been depressed temporarily by adverse weather or reveal a longer-lasting economic malaise.

Agriculture is the sixth largest consumer of plastic products in Australia, with annual consumption as high as 180,000 tonnes.

A UNSW industrial design student has come up with an award-winning creation that could make hard-to-open pill bottles a thing of the past for people with restricting conditions such ...

Feature of the week: Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) is an integral part of the daily consumer cycle.

Excessive pressure at work is costing Australia's economy $730 million a year due to job-stress related depression, a University of Melbourne and VicHealth report has revealed.

If Sara Spence has her way, you won't be throwing out the plastic bottle she's designed – even though it is compostable.

The pizza market continues to be dominated by the foodservice sector in most countries, but retail sales of chilled and frozen lines are showing good growth.

Feature of the week: Farming businesses will be forced to comply with new labelling rules that would allow consumers to know exactly which beef they might want to purchase to best ...

Feature of the week: Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians stored their drinking water in silver vessels to delay the onset of spoilage.

Feature of the week: Keith Monaghan was not impressed. The president of the Plastics Industry Manufacturers of Australia (PIMA) had just picked up the phone. A consultant was on the ...

Feature of the week: All three major political parties have now laid out their environmental credentials for the upcoming election, and although all promise action, there are wide ...

Feature of the week: The national boom in recycling is leading to a renaissance of the waste management industry, as firms open new facilities to deal with new types of material ...