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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Visy plans a new A$150 million corrugated box factory at Hemmant in Queensland to support the state's agricultural sector. The plan was announced on November 3, 2022.

Visy plans a glass packaging facility at its Yatala site in Queensland, Australia, able to produce up to 1 billion glass bottles and jars a year with 70% recycled content. The value is stated as $500m, with currency inferred as AUD.

Visy began operations at its $25 million glass beneficiation plant in Gawler, South Australia, announced in October 2022. The plant will recycle 150,000 tonnes of post-consumer glass each year.

Visy plans a A$500 million glass food and beverage container recycling and manufacturing facility in Yatala, Queensland. The three Queensland projects are expected to create 900 construction jobs and 300 operational jobs.

Opal Group, backed by parent Nippon Paper Group, is building a highly automated 47,000m2 corrugated cardboard packaging plant at a greenfield site in Wodonga, Victoria, as part of a total $140 million investment. Sod-turning took place in July 2022.

Visy announced a new A$150 million corrugated box factory at Hemmant, Queensland, to serve the state's agricultural sector. The projects together are expected to create over 900 construction jobs and 300 remanufacturing jobs.

Visy announced a A$500 million glass food and beverage container recycling and manufacturing facility in Yatala, Queensland, relocating its glass remanufacturing from South Brisbane, expected in 2025. The plant will produce about 1 billion glass containers a year.

Pact Group, Cleanaway Waste Management and Asahi Beverages formed a joint venture to build a A$45 million PET plastic recycling plant at the Nexus Precinct in Albury/Wodonga, NSW, expected to be operational by December 2021.

Oji Fibre Solutions (OjiFS) opened a $72 million corrugated packaging factory in Yatala on the Gold Coast, supported by the Advance Queensland Industry Attraction Fund. OjiFS also plans three satellite manufacturing sites in other Queensland locations.

Visy officially opened a 36,500 sqm corrugated packaging plant in Truganina, Victoria, capable of making over 1 million cartons daily and employing 85 people.

Packaging and processing equipment maker tna opened a new 80,000 sq ft manufacturing centre in Boronia, Victoria, built for almost $8 million, and targets over $1 billion in sales within five years.

Packaging company Visy is building a $99 million corrugated cardboard plant in Truganina, Melbourne's West, that will make cardboard from recycled paper for the local food and beverage market. The Victorian government says the investment will create 85 new jobs.

Oji Fibre Solutions officially opened its A$72 million corrugated board factory in Yatala, Queensland, Australia, supported by a A$65 million state industry attraction fund. The company also announced plans to open three satellite manufacturing sites in the region.

Oji Fibre Solutions is about to open a new $72 million corrugated cardboard packaging factory in Yatala on the Gold Coast, with support from Queensland's Advance Queensland Industry Attraction Fund. The plant will serve fruit, vegetable and meat markets in QLD, northern NSW and the NT.

Oji Holdings will construct a new Queensland plant making food-grade pulp-based cardboard boxes for meat processors and farmers, costing about 5 billion yen, with operations starting around October and capacity rising to 3-4 million square meters a month by 2019.

Oji Fibre Solutions is developing a new paper-based corrugated packaging facility in Yatala, Queensland, with about A$68 million invested. The plant will initially employ 50 staff and is on track for completion by the end of 2016.