The latest issue of Asia Pacific Packaging is now available online, as well as in print format.
To read the February 2013 issue online readers can click on the front cover on magazine on this page of the website, or go to asiapacificpackagingmagazine.realviewdigital.com to see the online version.
It is available to view on all major online platforms, including Mac, PC, Android, iPad, iPhone. Keener readers may also want to download the entire magazine to their desktop – and take it with them, wherever they go.
Brian Moore, publisher of Asia Pacific Packaging says, “Asia Pacific Packaging has been the leading packaging business title for the past 10 years, a position it has maintained through constant innovation. This latest move, to complement our core print platform means that readers will now be able to access the nation’s best read packaging title anywhere at any time on any device. It also means they will have a content rich media, with embedded videos and the like."
Among the features in the February issue of Asia Pacific Packaging is the Cover Story which features Pemara Labels Australia with a new HP Indigo ws6600 which it will use for labels and for a new market for Pemara; short-run cartons. Also included is a look at the largest biennial packaging and processing machinery and materials exhibition in Australia, AusPack Plus, will be heading to the Sydney showgrounds in May.
The global packaging industry expected to reach US$820bn by 2016, up from the US$670bn in 2010, according to a Smithers Pira report. Gavin Williams, CEO of the Packaging Council, explains the new direction that the industry’s primary association is heading in and the reasons why.
Stuart Hoggard says augmented reality needs to discover value and applications if it is to deliver on its promises in packaging. Also recent debate over the safety of otherwise of recycled newsprint in food packaging has focused attention on printers and brand owners, says Morwenna Kearns.
Paper sourced from Indonesian mills operated by Asia Pulp & Paper has been the subject of an ongoing campaign by NGOs like Greenpeace, so the company has launched its Roadmap to Sustainability as Asia Pacific Packaging Editor Wayne Robinson went to Riau Sumatra to assess the situation.
Now that the new year is well underway, industry eyes are turning to Melbourne in anticipation of PacPrint13 and, with just three months to go until doors open on the region’s premier industry event in May, word from exhibition organisers is that the show is well on track to be an unmissable
