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DieterBakic Provides Solutions
The Kyoto packaging range (top) is featured in the treatment packaging section of Solutions (bottom), as well as photos depicting popular beauty and wellness trends such as yoga.
Dieter Bakic, president of DieterBakicEnterprises, has put together a book called Solutions to help brands choose the right stock packaging for their product lines.
Solutions features photos of DieterBakic’s standard packages, which are grouped together and photographed as collections. For example, a bottle, a tottle, a pump, and a jar are photographed together to form a skin care line. The packages are decorated and branded to look like one cohesive line. Product names, logos, and graphics are designed by DieterBakic’s creative team. “Sometimes, our fictitious brands are even [copied by brands] exactly the way we present them in our photographs, complete with the logos and graphics we designed,” says Bakic.
Solutions is meant to give designers an idea of how the different combinations of packages can look as a line. The book is divided into sections such as cosmetics, hair care, and skin care. Additionally, some of the book’s pages are intended to be inspirational and abstract, with photographs that convey current beauty and lifestyle trends. They are meant to help designers make decisions regarding the colors or shapes that might appeal to their target customers.
“This book has been a very useful tool for us. It allows us to show our clients how our standard packaging solutions can work for them. It helps them to visualize their potential ranges and to decide what types of packages, colors, and graphic styles will appeal to their target customers,” says Bakic. He suggests that anyone trying to make a stock line look more upscale use color as a design element to unify a collection. “It could be as simple as using a stripe on all of your caps. Color coding is an important element in package design,” he says.
Axilone Wins for Dior Homme
Axilone, a supplier of plastic and metal components, received an Oscar d’Emballage packaging award for the cap it created for Christian Dior’s Dior Homme fragrance.
The awards were presented on November 24.
Manufactured by the company’s plastics division, the cap was bi-injection molded from Surlyn. The cap’s inner piece was made from polyethylene. The company used its Mold Flow computer-assisted flow-simulation-analysis technology to create the cap.
For more information about the innovative dispenser and collar Rexam Dispensing Systems created for the package, please see the Dispensing Systems feature in CPC Packaging’s January/February issue.
World Wide Packaging Creates Plastic Tube Division
Packaging supplier World Wide Packaging has formed a plastic tube division. The division will be headed by Jeffrey Hayet, World Wide Packaging’s newly appointed vice president.
“The tube division will offer a wide variety of one-piece round and oval tubes, as well as conventional two-piece oval and round tubes,” says Jeffrey Schneider, president of World Wide Packaging.
The company’s patented one-piece tube design was created to eliminate in-line problems that can occur when filling tubes that have caps. The one-piece tube also prevents leakage and residue that can contaminate the space between a tube’s neck and its cap. The tubes are currently available in diameters of 25, 35, and 50 mm.
James Alexander Adds Large Applicator
James Alexander Corp. has introduced an ampule with a large-sized applicator tip. “A larger-surface-area tip makes perfect sense for applications where liquid-based products will be applied to a large surface area,” says Francesca Fazzolari, president and CEO of James Alexander. The applicator can be made from various types of foam.
Crown Risdon Introduces Double-Ended Stock Designs
Crown Risdon has launched a new stock range of double-ended packages for lip and mascara products. The packages can be provided with a range of brush and applicator designs.
The Duo packages feature two plastic bottles joined together by an anodized metal connector. The connector can be silk-screened in a range of colors. The bottles are made from polypropylene and PVC and can be decorated with hot stamping. The packages can be provided in slim and regular contours and with connectors of different lengths.
O. Berk Goes for the Silver
O. Berk Co. has introduced a new line of silver tins fitted with clear-windowed lids. Available in sizes of 4, 6, 8, and 16 oz, the tins are seamless, with rolled safety edges on both the cans and the lids.
The lid’s window is made from polystyrol, a variation of polystyrene. It can be silk-screened or pressure-sensitive labeled. If a product is UV sensitive, the window can be protected with a UV inhibitor.
P&G Expands Kandoo Line
Procter & Gamble has added foaming bath and shampoo products to its Pampers Kandoo kids line. The foam dispensers are supplied by Airspray International Inc.
The new Kandoo products include a two-in-one instant-foam shampoo and a foaming body wash. According to P&G, the dispensers’ wide, easy-to-use actuators are easy for children to use. The packaging’s graphics feature the Kandoo frog, which is designed to help children learn how to use bath products in a fun way.
Rexam Dispensing Goes Mini
Rexam Dispensing Systems has introduced Soficard, a sample package that can be shaped to replicate the look of a fragrance’s retail package. Soficard comprises an outer paperboard casing that is glued around a miniature spray vial. The paperboard casing can be designed to look like a fragrance bottle. The sprayer can be either Rexam’s plastic Sofistic vial or glass Sofilux spray vial.
Amcor’s New Method
Amcor PET Packaging, a manufacturer of PET packaging, has taken a first big step in supplying packaging to the personal care market. The firm produced the 15-oz custom-designed teardrop-shaped PET bottles for Method Home’s new body wash line. The bottles were designed by Karim Rashid, who fashions Method’s packaging. The packages are topped by a two-color disc-top closure from Seaquist Closures.
Amcor recently established its personal care business unit as a part of its diversified products division. Brad Caszatt, a member of Amcor’s design team, talked about the challenges involved with blow molding the bottle. “The body wash [bottle] design is an organic shape and less geometric. It has more flowing, gently sweeping curves. That was a bit of a challenge,” he says.
Alpha Enhances PET Production Capabilities
Alpha Packaging, a blow molder of plastic bottles and jars, recently acquired Yorkbridge Packaging Northeast, a plastic bottle manufacturer located in Bethlehem, PA. The purchase includes the acquisition of a production plant housing 10 PET injection-stretch blow-molding machines. Alpha says that it eventually plans to double the size of the plant.
Alpha currently manufactures PET and high-density polyethylene bottles at three plants. It also produces bottles and preforms from polymerized lactic acid through a marketing agreement with NatureWorks PLA. Yorkbridge specializes in smaller-sized packages, such as amenities bottles for the hotel industry.
Toly Opens Factory in China
Toly Products has opened a new factory in Shenzhen, China. The firm says it had been working with subcontractors in China for several years; however, its senior management decided that Toly should have its own manufacturing plant. Toly shares the building with Pentagon, one of its joint-venture partners.
“We aim to offer a hybrid approach, balancing the strengths and weaknesses of China compared to Europe,” says Andy Gatesy, Toly’s chairman. “In Europe, our aim is to focus on high-volume automated production, while in China, we aim to focus on lower-volume manual assembly.”
IFF Gets Creative in Paris
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF), a creator and manufacturer of flavors and fragrances for perfumes and toiletries, has opened a new creative center in Paris. According to IFF, the facility is the first major fragrance house in Paris to develop both fine fragrances and beauty care products, including toiletries.
“[The facility] will offer our perfumers and customers an environment that fosters the fusion of creative inspiration, consumer insights, and fragrance technology,” says Nicolas Mirzayantz, senior vice president for IFF’s fine fragrances and beauty care unit and North America regional manager.
NJPEC Awards Tectubes
Tectubes USA was a big winner at the New Jersey Packaging Executives Club (NJPEC) Package of the Year Awards.
Several packages supplied by Tectubes were award winners, including Lakota Topical Pain Reliever by HPI Health Products for Best Use of Stock Packaging, which also received a bronze award in the graphics category. Calabro Ricotta Cheese by Calabro Cheese Corp. received a bronze award in the food and beverage category. Jim Beam Starbucks Coffee Liqueur received an honorable mention award in the food and beverage category.