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.

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.

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.