This week's Top 5 stories

Take a look at the stories that caught everyone’s attention on the Food & Drink Business website this week: JBS's $77 million Dinmore investment; Beak & Johnston opens Sydney factory; Robert Iervasi joins SPC Global board; Eden Brew reaches $25m raise goal; and highlights from Alt Proteins 23. 

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Packaging News

Mars has opened $112.6 million Wodonga pet food facility, bringing autonomous mobile robots, AI-enabled planning tools and advanced packaging automation into one of Australia's largest new food manufacturing investments.

New Cleanaway research reveals overwhelming support for packaging reform, recycled content mandates and national recycling rules, as industry looks to policy certainty to unlock the next wave of recycling infrastructure investment.

Three months after fears of a plastics supply crisis first rippled through Australia's packaging sector, the immediate sense of alarm has eased. Supply chains are still under pressure, prices remain elevated, and uncertainty persists, but PKN's conversations across the packaging value chain suggest the industry has shifted from crisis response to resilience management.