On Display: Caps and Closures - Crowning Touches
Signature Caps
Spray caps were crimped onto 50- and 100-ml bottles for the Dior Addict women's fragrance. The caps comprise four injection-molded parts. The PETG outer cap was engraved with the Dior Addict logo and finished with a translucent UV varnish. The inner cap was molded from POM with pigments that give the cap its deep color. The cap's solid, electroplated-gold ABS push button is the signature of the Dior Addict line. The electroplated-gold polypropylene ring that surrounds the push button indicates the push button's on/off position. Alcan Packaging Techpack, New York, NY.
Bottle Closures
A glass packaging specialist offers a wide range of closures to complement its nail-polish, fragrance, skin-care, and sample-sized bottles. Closures are available in various shapes and neck finishes. Ribbed, smooth, and other textures can be used to enhance the closures. Further decoration can be added using bright colors, embossing, holographic hot stamping, and metallizing. The supplier also offers dispensers to complete a package. New High Glass, Miami, FL.
Tube Closures
A tube supplier also specializes in producing a wide range of dispensing closures. Styles include the oval-shaped Tandem closure and the bicolored Cebalcap. Bicolored versions give packaging extra visual impact. The snap-on, oriented, biinjection-molded closures are designed especially for ease of use. Decoration can be added to the caps using techniques such as hot stamping. In addition, a protective shrink wrap can be added to make caps tamper evident. Alcan Packaging Cebal, Norwalk, CT.
Luxurious Sculpting
The luxurious cap for Guerlain's Issima Happylogy Day Cream jar was sculpted with a wavy design that doubles as a handle. The polypropylene cap was vacuum metallized in a shiny silvery-gold color. The supplier also produced the 30- and 50-ml thick-walled blue Surlyn jars. Molded with a glass-like transparency, the jars were embossed with the Guer- lain logo and fitted with an iridescent polypropylene product cup. The cup was sealed with a polypropylene lid that was also embossed with the brand's logo and that features a shape-memory handle. Crown Risdon, Watertown, CT.
Child-Resistant Style
A child-resistant dispensing closure is also senior friendly. The FTCR19700 closure is a 22-mm one-piece flip-top design. It can be opened and securely closed using one hand. Available options include lining the snap-on closure with a heat-induction seal liner that is already inducted for tamper evidence, meaning that manufacturers no longer need to invest in heat-induction equipment for their production lines. MAC Closures Inc., Waterloo, QC, Canada.
Cap, Closure Selection
A supplier offers a large selection of stock caps and closures. These can be supplied in polypropylene, urea, SAN, and ABS. Biinjection-molded designs are also available. For decorating, the company offers metallizing, hot stamping, color banding, spray lacquering, soft-touch finishing, and more. Arrowpak, Richmond Hill, NY.