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Neopac Polyfoil®-Tubes: high barrier, attractive appearance

The privately owned Swiss tube manufacturer Neopac is a worldwide supplier of Polyfoil® tubes for the premium beauty market. Neopac produces highly decorated tubes with excellent barrier properties to protect your valuable fillings. With an attractive appearance the tubes give the best possible brand presence plus a wide variety of applicators for ease of use. … Read more

Dispensing: Women’s face care routines

Sandy Gregory from Westrock presents new findings of a global study on facial skin care rituals and their implications on packaging. There are over seven billion people in the world and each one of us has a unique face. Our face is how we greet the world and how we nonverbally tell our story to … Read more

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VIROSPACK 60th Anniversary: Quality and expertise, assurance of success

Virospack is a family owned company founded in Barcelona in 1956, that is now celebrating 60 years of developing and manufacturing droppers. A long trajectory that positions Virospack internationally as The Dropper Company. “Over these years there have been lots of developments and successful global launches that have used Virospack’s droppers. Many well known brands … Read more

Saving whales and oceans

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Aerosol market remains stable

5.4 billion aluminium cans in 2015 A total of 5.4 billion aluminium cans were produced in 2015,according to the member companies of Aerobal (International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers) – a repeat of the previous year’s record result. In view of the very difficult conditions in 2015, this is a rather good achievement. After … Read more

Cosmoprof 2016: 250,000 exhibitors and visitors from 150 countries

The 49th edition of Cosmoprof Worldwide saw the participation on the opening day by Ivan Scalfarotto, of the Italian Government. The Ministry of Economic Development has included Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna between the "Fair of international interest" to be promoted and supported thanks to the collaboration with ITA-Italian Trade Agency. "The real novelty of Cosmoprof,” said … Read more

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Krüss launches Liquid Needle: Revolutionary dosing technique for contact angle scientifically validated

With the Liquid Needle dosing technique, KRÜSS GmbH is since recently using a new method of drop positioning for measuring static contact angle. The pressure-based method significantly accelerates the dosing process compared with classic needle dosing. Here, dosing units arranged in parallel produce two drops at the same time enabling measurements of the surface free energy to be carried out within one second. A current scientific study in the journal Colloid and Polymer Science verifies that contact angles are measured accurately in spite of this high speed.

Toly grows by 22 % 2015

In 2015 the Toly Group obtained a growth of nearly 22% when compared to 2014. The Group achieved sales of €66.6 million. All divisions showed good growth and with a clear strategy. Across the Group, there was continued investment. In Korea, a new factory was built – Toly Korea Manufacturing, to bring more trading business … Read more

Cosmopack: More than a treat for the eyes

Cosmopack will showcase the packaging suppliers’ latest offerings. Cosmopack, the event dedicated to the entire cosmetics supply chain, from raw materials to formulas and from machinery to packaging, takes place from 17–20 March 2016 in Bologna. The Cosmopack Wall returns for the third time, celebrating products which combine technical innovation with beauty. The events scheduled … Read more

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Gerhard Schubert: A Modular Filling Line for Cosmetics: Compact and Precise

The detailed Whitepaper by Gerhard Schubert introduces a modular, compact line concept for cosmetic bottle filling. Performance features include a robot-supported gravimetric dosing system with a low filling error, a 50 percent smaller footprint, a ‘puck-less’ line layout without conventional feed sections, as well as accumulation and gating devices.

Packaging Customization: Increasing brand loyalty

Customising packaging can increase brand loyalty. Here are some recent solutions.According to a study conducted by Canadean, 67% of 1,200 global executives across industries believed their customers were becoming less loyal to their brand. Due to such consumer insights, WestRock is convinced that providing customization options raises brand loyalty. According to the company’s annual Packaging … Read more

Intercosmetiques: New factory for 2017

The Alkos Group, which shows 10% revenue increase and over €51m consolidated income in 2015, invests in a new Intercosmétiques factory in Angers to open in 2017. This factory is designed for formulation, production and packaging beauty skin-care and make-up products. Intercosmétiques is one of three units of the Alkos Group. In addition there is … Read more

ADF: The award winners 2016

This year’s ADF awards were all relevant for the personal care industry, except for one which went to a food packaging. The products marked in red also received a PCD award this year. Find out details on this year’s winners in the March issue of COSSMA to be published on March 4th. Category: Product Company … Read more

Packaging: Increasing Brand Loyalty

According to a study conducted by Canadean, 67% of 1,200 global executives across industries believed their customers were becoming less loyal to their brand. Due to such consumer insights, WestRock is convinced that providing customisation options raises brand loyalty. photo: Westrock COS1602_40_Westrock.pdf

Brookfield Engineering Broadens AMETEK’s Laboratory Instrumentation Platform

AMETEK, Inc. announced that it has completed two acquisitions: Brookfield Engineering Laboratories, the world’s leading manufacturer of viscometers and rheometers, and ESP/SurgeX, a leader in energy intelligence and power protection solutions. “Brookfield Engineering and ESP/SurgeX are excellent acquisitions and strong additions to our Electronic Instruments Group. These businesses will allow us to expand our presence in … Read more

Hoffmann Neopac and Tu-Plast consolidate their sales organization for cosmetics

Some ten years after becoming majority shareholder in Tu-Plast Ltd. based in Debrecen, Hungary, sales of the company’s cosmetics products are being consolidated under the leadership of Michael Aringhoff. He has been working at Hoffmann Neopac since 2010 and has considerable experience as a key account manager and as head of sales support. Attila Békési, … Read more

Colep celebrates 50-year anniversary

Colep, a global player in the consumer goods packaging and contract manufacturing industries, celebrated its 50th anniversary at the end of 2015.  After half a century of commitment to aerosol can making and contract manufacturing, Colep now has 11 manufacturing sites worldwide, located in Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Poland and Spain, and alliances in Asia … Read more