Visy has produced the first glass bottles at its new recycling and manufacturing facility in Yatala, Queensland. Annual capacity is expected to reach up to 1 billion bottles and jars once fully operational.

Pact Group and Aldi are scaling up recycled packaging in Australia, with more than 19 million laundry and cleaning bottles per year to contain up to 50% Australian recycled plastic. The announcement is dated 22 October 2026.

Allied Pinnacle has invested AUD 10 million across its Sydney manufacturing operations to increase capacity, improve production speed and deploy automation. The announcement is dated 22 October 2026.

Visy has invested AUD 30 million in a new 2.8-metre-wide corrugator at its Smithfield board factory in Western Sydney, increasing board output by 33 per cent. The announcement is dated 21 October 2026.

Visy has invested $30 million in a new 2.8 metre corrugator at its Smithfield board factory in Western Sydney. The upgrade lifts board output by 33% and supports the agricultural and food and beverage sectors.

Pope Packaging completed a more than A$50 million expansion of its Adelaide paper sack plant, raising finished sack capacity by 50 percent and doubling printing capacity with a new high-speed press.

MyEco Group won a tender to supply compostable FOGO caddy bin liners and dog waste bags to Penrith City Council in New South Wales, worth up to $6.8 million over five years. The contract commenced on 15 May 2026.

Orora Cans plans a third can line at its Rocklea site in Australia to meet rising demand from customers expanding in Queensland. The project is part of about $364 million invested across Australia and New Zealand.

Consolidated Packaging Australia, a KnoxCorp subsidiary, agreed to buy Pro-Pac Packaging's Australian businesses, excluding Perfection Packaging, with completion expected by early March 2026. The New Zealand sale is expected to complete by end January 2026.

Perfection Packaging, a unit of Pro-Pac Packaging based in Dandenong, Victoria, is being wound down and is scheduled to close in February 2026. It was excluded from the sale to Knoxcorp.

Australian investor Knoxcorp, through subsidiaries, is buying the Australian and New Zealand continuing businesses of Pro-Pac Packaging from administrator McGrathNicol, excluding the Perfection Packaging unit. Completion is expected in early March 2026 in Australia and by 30 January 2026 in New Zealand.

Jamestrong Packaging opened a new A$8 million aluminium casting line at its Taree, New South Wales plant, allowing it to produce aluminium slugs onshore for aerosol cans.

Orora has begun commercial production with its Helio high-speed digital can printing system at its Dandenong can plant in Victoria. The technology serves beverage customers across Oceania and was announced on 11 August 2025.

Australian compostable food packaging group BioPak has acquired Bygreen, a Buderim-based maker of paper straws and sustainable tableware. The deal was reported on 8 August 2025 and no value was disclosed.

Melbourne-based Onpack partnered with hydration brand Rippl to supply direct-to-can digitally printed aluminium cans. Rippl has since produced 716 can designs and delivered over 300,000 cans across Australia.

Asahi Beverages has unveiled a new $60 million canning line at its Yatala brewery in Queensland, able to produce up to 400 million cans a year and adding 27 net full-time jobs.

Orora has committed roughly AUD 130 million to expand can production capacity at its Rocklea facility in Queensland, adding a new 375ml classic can line that will raise Cans capacity by more than 30% together with other projects. Installation is expected by late FY26.

Orora plans to invest $130 million to increase can production at its Rocklea site in Queensland by more than 30%, following its planned divestment of Orora Packaging Solutions.

Orora intends to bring forward A$130 million of capital investment to expand its Cans capacity at Rocklea, Queensland, which it says will increase Cans capacity by more than 30%.

Visy announced a US$500m investment to build a glass container manufacturing plant and recycling facility in Yatala, Queensland, with annual capacity of about 1bn glass containers. It expects to relocate its South Brisbane glass remanufacturing operations there by 2025.

US packaging provider TricorBraun acquired NSW-based UniquePak, a distributor of glass packaging for the spirits, wine, pharma and food industries, to expand its ANZ presence. The acquisition was reported on 17 May 2024.

Recyclable packaging maker PakTech has launched local manufacturing of multipack beverage can handles in Australia. PakTech and its partners have capacity to make up to 75 million recycled handles annually in Australia.

PakTech announced a collaboration with Endeavour Group to expand a closed-loop recycling scheme for PakTech handles at Dan Murphy's outlets in Australia. The scheme aims to collect used handles for recycling.

BioPak, an Australian packaging company, announced its acquisition of Australian reusable cup company Huskee to strengthen its circular and reusable product offering.

IVE Group plans to invest in new die-cutting and gluing finishing equipment at its Silverwater, NSW facility to generate about AUD 30 million of packaging capacity in the short term. Implementation begins in the new financial year.

Pneumatic Scale Angelus, a BW Packaging Co company, will exhibit its CB100R full rotary canning line at APPEX 2024 in Melbourne, running at 100+ cans per minute for craft beverages.

Pact Group and Morrison & Co completed the sale of a 50 per cent stake in Pact's Crate Pooling business to Morrison, creating the 50/50 joint venture Viscount Reuse for reusable plastic packaging crates in Australia and New Zealand.

Meat processor MAP WA invested $35 million at its Bibra Lake facility in Western Australia, including $10 million construction and $25 million robotics and equipment, doubling capacity to 400,000 kg per week and adding Multivac thermoforming packaging technology.

Opal Fibre Packaging, a Nippon Paper Group member, has officially opened its corrugated cardboard packaging facility in Wodonga, Victoria, Australia, established with a AUD 140 million investment. The site can produce up to 720,000 square meters of packaging per day.

Opal Group opened stage one of its A$140 million corrugated cardboard packaging facility at the Logic Wodonga industrial estate in Barnawartha, Victoria, in November 2023, creating 432 jobs, with stage two planned to add capacity.

IVE Group signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Melbourne packaging group JacPak for a total consideration of $35 million. The deal enters the short to medium run folding cartons segment and is scheduled to complete on 31 October 2023.

Visy opened its A$175 million corrugated cardboard box factory in Hemmant, Queensland, capable of making up to one million boxes a day from recycled paper. The facility directly employs over 100 people.

Zipform Packaging opened its new A$8 million manufacturing facility in Dandenong South, Victoria, doubling its production capacity with a linear forming line for composite food packs.

Orora Beverage invested $110 million to expand beverage can manufacturing in Victoria, establishing a new aluminium can line at Dandenong and increasing capacity at Ballarat. The project creates up to 18 jobs.

Orora invested $110 million to expand can manufacturing at its Dandenong and Ballarat plants in Victoria, partly funded by a Victorian Government grant. The expansion creates 18 new jobs.

Pact Group extended its crate pooling contract with Woolworths Group for a further 10 years, with Pact owning, operating, washing and storing reusable plastic produce crates. The contract generates annual revenue above $50 million.

Pact Group extended its seven-year crate ownership, washing and pooling contract with Woolworths by 10 years to 2033. The deal is reported as worth more than A$50 million a year, and Woolworths dropped its option to buy half of the Pact entity.

Orora Beverage launched Helio by Orora, a high-speed digital printing solution for cans in Oceania, supplied under an agreement with Israel-based Velox-digital. The first digital printer will be installed at Orora's Dandenong, Victoria can plant.

Recopak Machinery, an Australian family-owned packaging machinery manufacturer founded in 1986, opened a new factory in Cobram, Victoria. The facility is intended to streamline in-house manufacturing and speed delivery.

Pernod Ricard Winemakers has started up a high-speed combination can and small-format bottle line at its Rowland Flat site in South Australia, with capacity up to 24,000 cans per hour. The line will produce RTD and small-format wine products.

Pact Group is investing more than $76 million in new packaging manufacturing equipment across its Australian operations to produce recycled packaging. The investment is currently underway as of June 2023.

Pact Group signed a strategic partnership to supply recycled plastic packaging for ALDI Australia's own-brand products, manufactured at its New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland facilities. The deal was announced on June 29, 2023.

Frugalpac begins supplying vodka and gin in its paper Frugal Bottle to Australia and New Zealand after Free Trade Agreements with the UK took effect. Two local brands and two contract bottlers have adopted it, and an Australian packaging group intends to buy the assembly machine.

Sydney private-equity firm Adamantem is understood to be in talks to acquire PAC Trading, a western Sydney wholesale food packaging supplier. The report is unconfirmed and no value was given.

PakTech, maker of recycled secondary packaging, announced a partnership with Visy and a contract manufacturing facility in Victoria, Australia, with capacity for 100 million units a year.

Orora Beverage completed construction of an AUD 80 million multi-size can line at its Dandenong, Victoria facility in June 2023, increasing production capacity by around 10 per cent.

Opal Packaging is building a A$140 million corrugated cardboard packaging facility in Wodonga, Victoria, with capacity of about 400 tonnes of finished boxes per day, due to be operational in October 2023.

Finnish packaging manufacturer Huhtamaki has acquired full ownership of its Australian joint venture Huhtamaki Tailored Packaging (HTP), a food-service packaging wholesaler and distributor with several distribution centres. No value was given.

Amcor's Australia and New Zealand business signed a memorandum of understanding with Licella Holdings to invest in a plastic advanced recycling facility in Melbourne. Stage one is expected to process 20,000 tonnes per year of waste plastic using Licella's Cat-HTR technology, subject to final terms.

Private equity group Five V Capital has agreed terms to acquire a 30% stake in Australian packaging brand BioPak, valuing the company at about $275 million.