Section
The business end of the trade: pricing anatomy, the packaging rules a brand inherits with its first box, and when a finish earns its cost.
Packaging · Leadership
The covenant body loses chief executive Chris Foley at the end of November, inside the busiest packaging-reform window in years. The board says its strategy and its positions before government are unchanged; the continuity plan is the useful part for anyone who supplies or converts packaging.
Packaging · Regulation
The Senate committee examining the No Time to Waste EPR bill reports on 6 August. The government's own consultation shows 65 per cent of respondents back mandatory EPR, and APCO, which runs the voluntary covenant, now advocates mandatory settings too.
Business of print
Why the same job is $180 at one shop and $600 at another: the fixed-cost anatomy of a quote, the industry cost data, and what cheap online printing trades away.
Finishes
What each specialty finish physically is, how it is applied, the tooling economics that drive its cost, and when it is overkill.
Packaging
The ABS numbers behind the unboxing trend, what the APCO data says about fibre packaging, and the recyclability and labelling rules a small brand inherits with its first box.
Business of print
The cheapest premium object a business can hand over, the size standard that only covers the plastic ones, and where QR codes fit.