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.

MyEco Group (ASX: MCO) won a 3-to-5-year contract to supply compostable FOGO caddy bin liners and dog waste bags to Penrith City Council, New South Wales, worth up to $6.83m over five years, starting May 15, 2026.

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.

Aliaxis plans to invest about €28 million in Australian factories, including a new Toowoomba 2 plant near Brisbane for stormwater drainage products, with production lines starting from Q3 2024.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has signed an agreement to acquire Baron Group, an Australian-Chinese maker of precision silicone components, to strengthen its healthcare and medical offering. Baron had 2023 sales of about SEK 1,000 million and operates two plants in Australia and two in China.

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.

TricorBraun opened its Bev-Cap injection moulding facility on Coronation Avenue, Kings Park, in Western Sydney. The project took over six months and cost over AUD 2 million, a joint effort with PB Packaging and Cormack Packaging.

Morrison agreed to acquire a 50% interest in Pact Group's reusable plastic crate pooling business serving Australia and New Zealand, valuing the business at an enterprise value of about A$380 million.

Martogg is commissioning its Circular AU food-grade plastic recycling facility in Melbourne, expected to be operational before year end 2023. The plant will reprocess plastic packaging waste into food-grade recycled plastics.

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.

Aliaxis is investing €14 million to transform its Philmac pipe fittings plant in North Plympton, Adelaide, raising capacity by 40% with automation, with full operation expected in 2025.

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.

Woolworths Group and Pact are developing a partnership under which Pact would supply recycled plastic packaging for Woolworths own-brand products, potentially up to 18,000 tonnes per year. The deal is described as a multi-million-dollar investment in local recycling and manufacturing capacity.

Woolworths Group and Pact Group are developing a partnership under which up to 18,000 tonnes of recycled plastic could be used in Woolworths own-brand packaging each year. The companies describe it as a multimillion-dollar investment in local recycling and manufacturing capacity.

Pact Group will manufacture and supply recycled plastic packaging for Woolworths own-brand products, using recycled PET resin from its Australian recycling facilities. The partnership was announced on 26 July 2022 and involves a multimillion-dollar investment.

Woolworths Group and Pact Group are developing a strategic partnership under which Pact would use recycled plastic for Woolworths own-brand packaging, up to 18,000 tonnes a year, as a multimillion-dollar investment in local recycling.

Pact Group signed an agreement to supply Woolworths with up to 18,000 tonnes of recycled plastic packaging items for its home brand products by 2024.

Pact Group acquired Synergy Packaging, a Tullamarine, Victoria maker of PET bottles, bottle caps and jars, as of June 4, 2022. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

TricorBraun agreed to acquire PB Packaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of ASX-listed Pro-Pac Packaging, expanding its presence in Australia. PB has 140 team members and the deal is expected to close in Q2 2022, subject to Foreign Investment Review Board approval.

The Circular Plastics Australia joint venture officially opened its A$45 million PET recycling plant in Albury-Wodonga on 11 March 2022, backed by up to A$16.5 million in CEFC debt finance. The plant recycles about 30,000 tonnes of PET a year and employs about 40 people.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is investing in a new PET plastic recycling facility in Victoria, Australia, built through a cross-industry partnership. The company is also expanding recycling capacity in Indonesia and Europe.

Moorebank-based packaging company Tacca signed a six-month supply agreement with Detmold Medical to produce meltblown polypropylene filter layer for medical masks, re-tooling its Moorebank premises for the work. The article is dated 5 August 2020 and no value was given.

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.

ASX-listed Pro-Pac Packaging Group agreed to buy Victoria-based flexible packaging maker Perfection Packaging for $49.8 million, funded by a capital raising. The factory in Dandenong South employs 100 people.

Integrated Packaging Group agreed a merger with Pro-Pac Packaging in a share sale deal valued at $177.5 million, creating a flexible packaging leader across Australia and New Zealand. Shareholder vote is expected end of October with tentative completion November 6, 2017.

Sydney-based Pro-Pac Packaging agreed a share sale to merge with Integrated Packaging Group in a A$177.5 million deal, creating a flexible and industrial packaging business, with completion proposed for 6 November after a shareholder vote.

Precision Global, a portfolio company of Peak Rock Capital and maker of valves and dispensing solutions, has acquired Australian plastics maker Ralpet Plastics Pty Ltd. The deal was reported on 2016-10-14.