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Title Cosmetic Packaging Trends
Author Deborah J. Coles-Dobay
Company Creative Marketing Impact, Inc.
Synopsis
Cosmetic Packaging trends are challenged daily. Packaging has become more innovative as consumers demand convenience and performance in their cosmetic purchases. Consumers today shop across channels in search of more positive experiences and more readily accept new technology.
 
Exhibitors Making Waves
ABB Robots Take Science to a Whole New Level
Visitors can challenge an ABB FlexPicker, typically used for packaging applications. With end of arm tooling added to the robot, challengers can try to beat the robot in three levels of expertise: beginner, intermediate and expert.
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ABB Inc.
Vacuum Barrier Completes Expansion
Vacuum Barrier recently completed a multifaceted renovation and expansion to their Woburn, Massachusetts headquarters. This renovation is to further commit to existing and future customers and to accommodate present and future employee growth.
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Vacuum Barrier Corporation
GCS Appoints New President for Asia Pacific Region
Global Closure Systems (GCS), a leading worldwide supplier of plastic and metal closing and dispensing systems, announces that it has appointed Christian Tang-Jespersen as president of its Asia Pacific operations.
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Company to Produce Compostable Food Packaging
The Instone Group has joined the race to grab a slice of the biodegradable food packaging market by launching a subsidiary that will target the produce and meat segments.
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Chesapeake Dedicates Pharmaceutical Paperboard Packaging Plant in China
By combining paperboard carton, label and leaflet production capacity with the existing packaging capability, Chesapeake will be able to offer one-stop service for pharmaceutical packaging.
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Top Stories in Cosmetic Packaging
Cosmetics Packaging Firm Goes Carbon Neutral
Cosmetics packaging company, Curtis, has responded to mounting eco-pressure by becoming the first packaging and printing firm in North America to go fully carbon neutral.
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Algae Could Produce Iridescent Colour Effects for Cosmetics
Iridescent effects are used widely in colour cosmetics products, as well as cosmetics and personal care packaging, as manufacturers attempt to grab the attention of the consumer.
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Call for International Co-Operation within the Cosmetics Industry
The International Cooperation on Cosmetic Regulation (ICCR) is calling for increased international cooperation within the industry, in areas such as nanotechnology and alternatives to animal testing.
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Editorial

The growing number of brands in the cosmetics industry has lead to various differences in terms of product quality. Contamination of cosmetic products poses a hazardous threat to the consumers. Serious quality control and product management is indeed the need of the hour.

Considering this, the International Cooperation on Cosmetic Regulation met for the first time in Brussels, to synchronize the international regulation of cosmetic products in areas such as nanotechnology and alternatives to animal testing.

Curtis, a cosmetics packaging company in North America, has announced its success in becoming 100 percent carbon neutral.

For more updates read the next issue of Packaging IDeaS.

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