Cosmopharma

Italians are not foregoing on purchasing cosmetics, essential for daily hygiene and personal well-being, but are moving towards cheaper price ranges or towards better value for money: this is why the value of the cosmetics market has decreased slightly, but not the volume of products sold.

Steel and aluminium containers enable bringing out the full potential of a product’s value. These completely recyclable packaging types offer many advantages in production. A testimonial by Mirato.
Editorial communication by the Association

NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK Cosmetics and food: two apparently quite different sectors that, with changes to the legislation governing the use of packaging materials and the evaluation of components that can affect a product’s intrinsic properties, find themselves sharing numerous points of contact. With contributions from Giancarlo Melato of Cosmetica Italia*, an update on the most important European…

For its most innovative packaging lines, Bergami avails itself of the collaboration of Bosch Rexroth, developing technological solutions universally recognized for their performance and reliability.

Omas Tecnosistemi inaugurates a new production plant in Canton Ticino (CH), thus making logistics and distribution of production more efficient. Focus on their rotary monoblocs.

Handy, ergonomic and competitive, Lameplast’s new 0.6 ml monodose made for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and medicinals comes in five vial resealable strips.

Attractive curved lines and a wide body for easy handling feature in the packaging of the new Garnier Mineral women’s and men’s deodorant stick.

A packaging must always come to terms with the product it contains, especially in the field of cosmetics. But what is hidden behind a simple “blink of an eye”? Answers from Renato Ancorotti, president of Ancorotti Group, an R&D leader that creates makeup and skincare products for the most important international brands.

45 years of dedication to the design and construction of automatic packaging machinery for pharmaceuticals and cosmetics: Famar Packaging.

Growing numbers and innovation in the limelight at the 2014 edition of the international pharmaceutical packaging show Pharmapack Europe. The award winners.

We have to stop pitying ourselves, moaning the whole time, underrating Italy’s wonders.
We are a strange people, combining genius with rulelessness, artfulness and skill, and amidst all the beauty that surrounds us. We are Italians, we are made that way.
Editorial by Sonia Pedrazzini

5th February last saw the holding, at the Espace Champerret in Paris, of PCD (Cosmetic Packaging Design) and ADF (Aerosol Dispensing Forum), respectively focused on packaging systems for beauty and personal care, and on the aerosol industry with its evermore varied market outlets.

The Italian companies that work upstream of pharmaceutical production have filed away a positive 2013.

Scandolara changes tack increasing the onus placed on quality and service. The Italian producer has in fact set up a Beauty Division and proposes lines of tubes specifically for high-end cosmetics.  l.g.

Grow and then grow some more. Like a mantra, this formula sums up the future of Lameplast Group, an outstanding player in the European sector of production and filling of plastic containers destined for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry. And the numbers confirm it: +25% turnover in 2013, with an export share exceeding 40%. Stefano Lavorini

More than forty years of experience and a solid presence on the Italian and international market through a wide network of distributors: OMAS Tecnosistemi designs and builds machines for filling and sealing of liquids, creams, powders in rigid containers (also unstable containers such as bottles, jars, cans) for the cosmetics-pharmaceutical-, chemical and food industries.

Called Vita the new dispensing system devised by Apta beaty+home for cosmetics and personal care eatures a unique and original design.

Avery Dennison has developed a new generation of adhesive, to be used in high performance resealable packaging for personal- and homecare products.

The ability of Pochet du Courval in pad printing is placed at the service of class perfumery to the  benefit of the  limited edition perfume “Le Gars de la Marine” by Jean-Paul Gaultier.

45 years of dedication to the design and construction of automatic packaging machinery for pharmaceuticals and cosmetics: Famar Packaging carries on and strengthens its partnership with hi-tech concerns in the sector, supplementing packaging machinery for fluids, creams and powders with its own intermittent and continuous cartoning machines and end of line systems (bundlers, casepackers,…