Packaging & design
Alkos invests to consolidate external growth
With the acquisition in April 2008 of Financière Beauté and the holding’s two main subsidiaries, Intercosmétiques and Sagal, France-based...
PRP to focus on three strategic axes
Located in Oyonnax, at the heart of the Plastics Valley, North-East of Lyon, and specialising in the making of plastic bottles for health...
MBF Plastiques scores big in high-end spray-caps
With the launch of Paco Rabanne’s “1 Million”, the French company specialising in plastic injection moulding, demonstrates, once again,...
“Innovation is our first investment,” Alain Chevassus, Cosfibel
Alain Chevassus, founder and president of Cosfibel, is continuing our set of interviews with the leaders of the cosmetics industry’s...
The renewed modernity of aerosol dispensers
Michel Fontaine, President of the French Aerosols Committee (Comité Français des Aérosols - CFA) and Director of the Packaging Research...
“The environment is the most important challenge for us,” Serge Brigot, Graindorge
Graindorge is a company specialising in the surface treatment of high quality plastic products, specializing in the electroplating of...
Paper and cardboard: price rise “unavoidable”
“Unavoidable!” That’s how many insiders of the paper and cardboard industry describe expected price increases. “Just imagine that, in a...
Dangerous snowball effect of oil prices on plastic packaging
The CSEMP, the French trade association representing the plastic film industry and the producers of flexible packaging expressed strong...
A new factory and an “astonishing” new jar for Technicaps
Three months ago, Technicaps moved to a new manufacturing plant, around 30 kilometres away their previous facilities, and subsequently...
Are manufacturers of compact cardboard plumbing the depths?
There is hardly any good news for European producers of compact cardboard, a product that is used to make folding boxes. Confronted...
