Unilever has developed a technology to reduce plastic in its personal care packaging by ‘at least’ 15%, in a move which will both further bolster its sustainable profile, and potentially save the industry big in packaging costs.
Honda Plus, a company specializing in packaging through direct blow molding is looking to expand into Europe after seeing success supplying to major brands like Shiseido, Kanebo and Kao on the Japanese market.
Clariant has launched a new liquid colour technology that has been developed to make the process of colouring polyolefin blow molded plastics easier, of a higher a quality and more flexible.
A Shiseido shampoo bottle partly made of bioplastic is on display at the COP 16 talks in an attempt to make abstract discussions on reducing fossil fuel reliance and lowering carbon footprint more tangible.
Polymer manufacturer LyondellBasell has expanded its range of metallocene-based resins with a new addition for cosmetics packaging claimed to be an alternative to injection blow moulded PET.
BASF's tough and transparent styrene-butadiene copolymer can now be
used as a cost-effective plastic for blow moulding, according to
recent internal research.
California-based Merle Norman Cosmetics claims to have discovered a
new blend of processing technique and material called AN004 which
resulted in 'uncompromising clarity, at wall thicknesses unheard of
in a clear polymer'.