26th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation: Call for entries by March 1st

DuPont Packaging started the call for entries in the 26th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, the industry’s longest running, independently judged competition. The awards program returns with changes that reflect current trends in the packaging industry. The deadline for entries is March 1, 2014. “The DuPont Packaging Awards honor packaging innovations that use science, inspiration, … Read more

Stölzle Glass Group acquires French Glassworks Verreries de Masnières

Stölzle Glass Group is a European manufacturers of high-end packaging glass for Perfumery & Cosmetics, Prestige Spirits, as well as Pharmaceuticals. Recently the Group has acquired Verreries de Masnières SAS and Bormioli Rocco Valorisation SAS from Bormioli Rocco Group SpA. Both sites are situated in North of France and will suit Stölzle’s glass network built … Read more

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ADF & PCD 2014: 10th edition in Paris Feb. 2014

PCD2014 10th edition will be held next February 5&6, Espace Champerret, Paris, at the same time as Aerosol & Dispensing Forum for the greatest satisfaction of the participants. ADF & PCD2014 in numbers: More than 200 exhibitors, leaders, material suppliers (glass, paper, cardboard, textile, plastic, metal), converters and injectors ; cans manufacturers, suppliers of assembly … Read more

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PCD2014 10th edition in Paris Feb. 2014

PCD2014 10th edition will be held next February 5&6, Espace Champerret, Paris, at the same time as Aerosol & Dispensing Forum for the greatest satisfaction of the participants. 2 days of conferences devoted to packaging innovation, 6 sessions, 45 speakers representing the highest level of international expertise on: Skin care, cosmetics and make-up: current status … Read more

Schwan Cosmetics Usa to build new US facility

Schwan Cosmetics USA will consolidate its U.S. operations by building a new facility in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The Middle Tennessee plant will merge Schwan Cosmetics’ Cosmolab facility in Lewisburg, Tenn. and its Schwan Cosmetics USA facility in Piscataway, N.J. The announcement represents an investment of $38 million and will create 250 new jobs over the next … Read more

COSSMA e-mail newsletter: Now twice a month and with new layout

COSSMA VIP Mail, our free E-Mail Newsletter, will be sent out twice a month from now on. On the second Thurday and the last Tuesday of each month, you will receive the latest Information from the cosmetics and personal care industry directly into your Mailbox. In Addition, we changed the layout a bit to what … Read more

Ileos acquires Aphena Health and Beauty

Ileos has acquired Aphena Health & Beauty, a division of Aphena Pharma Solutions Holdings, Inc., who specializes in development and manufacturing of sampling vehicles for the color cosmetics and fragrance industries. Aphena Health & Beauty, managed by Dominick Montano has 60 employees and is located in Whippany, New-Jersey. The company is expected to post a … Read more

Colep: Joint venture with Scitra

Colep, with headquarters in Europe, and Scitra, a United Arab Emirates based company, part of the Albatha Group, have announced a joint venture agreement to create an aerosol contract manufacturing operation in the UAE. The Joint Venture will operate under the name of Colep Scitra Aerosols. The parties will invest in expansion and improvement of … Read more

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Register for PCD Awards by November 14th 2013!

PCD AWARDS: the recompense for Packaging Innovation!Deadline to register: 14 november 2013Free registration! Don’t miss the opportunity to see your achievements crowned by a panel of packaging experts!To enroll, please send to Oriex Communication: document explaining the innovations and highlighting technical challenges you faced during the packaging development 2 samples of the product The Awards ceremony … Read more

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LUTZ GMBH & CO.KG: High flexibility and excellent service

Silvia Klein, Sales + Marketing Manager at Lutz GmbH & Co. KG, presents the company in COSSMA’s Supplier Check: "Lutz is a company that can look back on more than 50 years of successful production, specialising in the business of “primary packaging made of tubular glass” and has built up a first class image in the market. … Read more

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STÖLZLE GLASGRUPPE: Flexibility, Reliability, One-Stop-Shopping

The Stölzle Glass Group can look back on over 200 years of experience in the production of glass packaging for prestige and beauty products as well as for healthcare and consumer products. In addition we make traditional and stylish glass tableware for the catering and hotel business. Stölze’s objective is to be the preferred long-term … Read more

Colep acquires contract manufacturing plant in Mexico

Colep, a global player in the consumer goods packaging and contract manufacturing industries, has acquired the aerosol personal care products contract manufacturing plant of Aerosoles y Liquidos S.A de C.V., in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. The new company will trade as Colep S.A de C.V. With this acquisition, Colep initiates its operations in the Central … Read more

Sigmund Lindner GmbH expanded the location in Germany

Topping out ceremony of the new SiLiglit plant Sigmund Lindner GmbH clearly came out in favour of the Upper Franconia location. At the company headquarters in Warmensteinach, Bayreuth district,  the  family-managed company invested EUR five million in a new plant. SiLi celebrated the topping out ceremony of the new hall on  Bayreutherstraße in Warmensteinach. The … Read more

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JFA Flock: Innovation is worth the effort

Ferdinand Fütterer, Managing Director at JFA Flock Applikationen GmbH, Germany, presents one of the most innovative companies working in flocking cosmetics applicators. JFA’s headquarters in Kuppenheim, Germany, near Baden-Baden, Germany, feature state-of-the-art production facilities. Mr. Fütterer points out the role of JFA as an international corporation working in the cosmetics industry. JFA provides the full … Read more

Albéa cooperates with Vacheron Industries

Albéa has has finalised an industrial agreement with the Vacheron group, one of whose subsidiaries specialises in the anodization of aluminium parts in order to propose to its customers integrated metal-plastic solutions for all of its regions — Europe, Asia and North America—whilst maintaining project management for all plastic injection and assembly activities. Within this … Read more

Colep forms Aerosol Global Supply Network

Colep, with headquarters in Europe and the One Asia Network, an alliance of three companies (Daizo Corporation of Japan, with operations in Japan, Thailand and China, Pax Australia and Asian Aerosols of India), have created a global supply network, through the establishment of a Manufacturing and Technology Agreement, which will cover the whole of their … Read more

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Quadpack: Natura Bissé introduces the first airless glass bottle of its kind

Once again, Natura Bissé has taken the beauty market by storm. Its latest rejuvenating night treatment not only breaks new ground in skin care, but also revolutionises beauty packaging. Diamond Life Infusion is contained in the world’s first pack that combines a glass bottle with a rigid Yonwoo airless container custom developed by Quadpack. “We … Read more

Sustainable Cosmetics Summit in Paris: 21-23d of October

Cosmetic companies are making slow progress in reducing their packaging footprints. Although the cosmetics industry has become preoccupied with green initiatives, few steps have been made to tackle the environmental impact of packaging. Most developments are occurring in ecodesign, with many brands reducing packaging materials by changing design structures. But more radical solutions involving materials … Read more

Albéa terminates subcontracting agreement with Sussex IM

As part of the completion of the carve out of the Rexam Personal Care, Cosmetics Division, purchased on December 31st, 2012, Albéa has terminated by mutual consent of a non-strategic subcontracting agreement with the North American supplier Sussex IM in cosmetic compact. This agreement was entered into back in 2009 by Rexam Beauty & Closures … Read more