Supplier Side
World Wide Decorates In 3-D
World Wide Packaging (Florham Park, NJ) has been showing its customers a new way to decorate packages. The company uses a special vacuum heat process to print a design onto a package, such as a compact or a jar.
“It is very exciting, because the design is able to go right over the edge of a compact,” says Bob Reinhardt, executive vice president of sales at World Wide Packaging. “We’re just starting to play around with this process, and we’re exploring the different effects that can be achieved.”
The process can be applied to any substrate. It is done by first transferring a design or artwork to a special type of sheet. Next, the sheet is applied to the package using vacuum heat pressure. Different textures can be created, including the feel of a golf ball, faux alligator, and a wood-grain finish.
“This is a way to achieve a three-dimensional look without using a label,” says Don Lent, director of engineering at World Wide Packaging. “We’ve developed specialized tooling in order to create many types of raised decorations.”
World Wide Packaging is developing this technique in partnership with its R&D factory in Taiwan, which the company has been working with for 25 years. The technique has been used in other industries, but never for cosmetic packages, according to Reinhardt. “You always have to keep looking for new, exciting ways to set your package apart from the rest—and I think this is definitely one way to do so,” he says.
DieterBakic Launches Naomi
DieterBakicEnterprises has added a loose-powder container to its Naomi line of color cosmetic packaging. The Naomi line also includes compacts and containers for lipstick, mascara, and nail polish.
The loose-powder container is designed with large printing areas to provide flexibility for decoration. Its slim contours are ergonomic and feminine.
ConnSTEP Awards Emsar
Phil Miller (left), vice president and general manager for Emsar, accepts ConnSTEP’s award.
Dispenser supplier Emsar Inc. was named manufacturer of the year by The Connecticut State Technology Extension Program (ConnSTEP). ConnSTEP is a nonprofit consulting firm whose goal is to help Connecticut-based manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing techniques to become more competitive in the marketplace.
ConnSTEP’s manufacturer of the year award is based on four criteria: excellence in manufacturing, innovation, and growth; promotion of employee development; promotion of manufacturing awareness; and community contributions.
Crown Risdon’s Got Soul
Crown Risdon produced the caps for Liz Claiborne’s Soul by Curve men’s and women’s fragrances. The Soul by Curve metal caps adorn the line’s bottles, which include sizes of 15, 30, 50, and 100 ml.
Both caps feature a polypropylene inner cap. The men’s cap was anodized black. The women’s cap is in an anodized silver color. The caps for the 50- and 100-ml bottles are weighted.
Backing Environmental Friendliness
Catchpoint, a supplier of self-adhesive linerless labels, recently announced that it is testing Sherwood Technology’s DataLase laser technology as a means of printing on its environmentally friendly labels.
Catchpoint’s linerless labels help prevent paper waste, since they are designed without the release web or backing liner typically featured on self-adhesive labels. Eliminating the liner can help reduce the 104,200 tons of waste produced each year due to self-adhesive label production.
The linerless labels are stored on rolls. They are prevented from sticking to each other by a unique silicone coating that is incorporated into the lacquer applied onto the nonadhesive side of the label.
New Supplier Makes Big Impression
New supplier Impressions Packaging made its debut at the HBA trade show in September 2005. Located in Peachtree City, GA, the firm manufactures injection-stretch-blow-molded containers. In particular, the company specializes in heavy-walled PET bottles for cosmetic and personal care products and specialty applications.
At its booth, the firm showed off its line of round and cylinder bottles, which are available in sizes of 100, 125, 200, and 240 ml. The bottles are created from Eastman Chemical Co.’s Voridian resin, which offers benefits including chemical resistance and the look of glass. “The resin is designed to have a slower rate of recrystallization, making it possible to produce heavy-wall clear containers with the high-end look of glass,” says Rob Hyams, one of the company’s cofounders. The company offers short runs, specialty colors including jewel tones, and custom shapes.
Impressions Packaging was started by Hyams and Doug Rendall.
The Glass Polymer Lets Fragrance Bottle Shine
Eastman Chemical Co. announced that its The Glass Polymer resin was used by cosmetics company 331 International, an affiliate of the Shiseido Group, for its unique Ether de Iunx fragrance bottle.
The bottle is shaped like a computer mouse. It lights up when lifted, thanks to LEDs, light cells, and two CR2032 batteries in the bottle. Providing design freedom as an alternative to glass, The Glass Polymer offers chemical and shatter resistance, as well as a good light transmission rate—a requirement for this package.
“We chose The Glass Polymer because it was the only material that could meet our injection molding requirements and maintain the required aesthetics and mechanical functions,” said Annick Masseglia, director of 331 International.
Axilone Launches New Catalog
Global packaging manufacturer Axilone, a division of Ileos, has launched an online catalog featuring many of its stock products for the beauty industry. Located at www.axilone-sa.com, the catalog allows users to search product profiles according to packaging component, such as caps and lipstick containers.
Guerlain Sampler Wins Award
Socoplan/Flexpaq, a sample packaging supplier that specializes in sachets and packettes, received a first-place award for the print quality of a sachet it produced for Guerlain Paris’s Issima skin serum. The award was presented on October 20 by Pro Hélio, a French heliogravure association.
Printed in six colors, the sachet, except for its center area, was coated with a satiny varnish. The center area was covered with a shiny varnish.
Guess Goes with Rexam
Rexam Dispensing Systems supplied the spray assembly for the new Guess eau de parfum for women by Parlux Fragrances. The low-profile pump features Rexam’s The Crimpless System.
A custom collar designed for the unit helps hold a decorative metal shell in place on the bottle. The shell has a cutout that forms the letter G. “The Crimpless System enables the upper metal piece to be affixed to the Guess bottle without glue,” says Tony Cecchinato, key account manager for Rexam Dispensing Systems.
CCL Bags Worldstar Award
CCL Container, a producer of aluminum packaging, recently received two Worldstar awards, hosted by the Worldstar Packaging Organization.
One of the winning containers was a pressurized bag-on-valve aluminum can created for a sun care product. The supplier says that this is the first sun care product line ever to be sold in a bag-on-valve aluminum system. CCL Container calls its system the Advanced Barrier System. The product is housed in a hermetically sealed, laminated pouch that separates it from the pressurizing agent.
New Direction for Unette
Unette has introduced a new option for its unit-dose tubes—an Extreme Directional Flow (EDF) tip. The new tip allows for targeted product application.
Joseph R. Hark, Unette’s president, says that the new EDF option is ideal for products such as hair dye. The EDF tip is available on all of Unette’s single-use tubes, including those made from multilayer polyethylene, Saran, and laminated foil.
Rexam Puts Twist on Fragrance Vial
Rexam Beauty has launched Sof’Twist, a deluxe sample-sized package. Sof’Twist comprises a small refillable plastic case, which is designed to hold a 2-ml glass vial topped with the supplier’s small Sofilux pump.
The component works similar to a lipstick container. When users twist the base of the plastic case, as they would a lipstick container, the vial rises like a lipstick bullet. Once the vial is empty, it can be replaced with another vial.
The package allows brands to provide customers with vials of various fragrances, which they can interchange in the outer container. The container can be customized using screen printing, hot stamping, lacquering, and metallizing.
In other news, Rexam’s Dispensing Systems division launched two new sample-sized vials, called Sof’n’Touch and MiniMist, at the Luxe Pack Monaco trade show in November. Sof’n’Touch features a unique applicator that allows users to apply a fragrance simply by dabbing the applicator on their skin.
Mansfield-King Adds High-Speed Tube Filling
Mansfield-King LLC announced that it has expanded its capabilities to include high-speed tube filling. Located in Indiana, the company is a contract formulator, manufacturer, packager, and fulfillment provider for personal care products. The firm has acquired two Norden tube fillers, which can fill up to 150 tubes per minute.
“Our goal is to have enough capacity to meet tube-filling demand in the Midwest,” says Charles Haywood, the company’s president. “Most of the personal care contract packagers in the Midwest—Chicago and Cincinnati in particular—that are willing to do short and medium runs don’t have automated tube fillers.” Mansfield-King specializes in medium and short runs.
O. Berk Flips Its Lids
O. Berk Co. has introduced new flip-top jar caps. The caps are compatible with two of the firm’s low-profile PET jars. One is a 4-oz jar with a 70-400 neck finish; the other is an 8-oz jar with an 89-400 neck.
The biinjected single-piece polypropylene caps feature a crab-claw sealing system. PVC jar disks can also be provided to keep product sealed in the jars during shipping. The caps come in various colors.