Dispensing
Virospack expands portfolio of premium metal finish bottles
Spanish droppers specialist Virospack has expanded its range of metal shell bottles with a 30ml format featuring a 20/410 neck. The new size joins the existing 15ml and 20ml options and can be fitted with either a classic or push button dropper.
L’Explorateur du Goût launches La Spirithèque premium spirits refill station
Inspired by the growing trend for luxury in-store fragrance fountains, La Spirithèque invites consumers to refill their bottles with their spirit of choice. Launched last month at 30 wine merchants in France, the goal is to be present in 100[…]
Interview
Techniplast on refill technology innovations
Techniplast is a pioneer in luxury fragrance refills for retail and consumer use. Loïc Bouet, the French supplier’s Sales Director, talks about this high-growth market in an excerpt of our upcoming feature interview in the Fall issue of Formes[…]
Virospack launches wooden dropper collar
Spanish dropper specialist Virospack has launched what it says is the first single-piece wooden dropper collar for cosmetics applications. Made of a single component, the wood collar is devoid of the traditional plastic inner cap. Having got rid[…]
Brazil's Wista Airless Systems embarks on European expansion
The Brazilian dispensing specialist, with its origins in pharmaceutical devices, is now solely focused on cosmetics. In 2021, the family-owned company is inaugurating its first factory in Europe, a sign of its ambitions for the local beauty[…]
FusionPKG is out to revolutionize powder dispensing with Space Sift
US-based FusionPKG is shaking up powder packaging with the launch of Space Sift, its patent-pending sifter jar. The pack’s slim profile not only saves space at retail, the supplier says, but also offers a new user-application experience. Space[…]
Green Spense’s Eco-Drive: an alternative to aerosol cans
Eco-Drive is the name of Israeli supplier Green Spense’s latest diffuser with the properties of an aerosol but without the drawbacks of gas propellant. The patented innovation offers a continuous and silent spray that can be dispensed at any[…]
Virospack premieres metal-tip dropper
Virospack has launched what it calls the beauty market’s first-ever metal-tipped dropper. Jordi Salas, technical manager at the Spanish dropper specialist, discusses this new innovation and others in the pipeline. What does this new dropper[…]
A smart perfume bottle signed Perfume-Tech & Hrastnik 1860
Perfume-Tech, a Slovenian start-up, has teamed up with glassmaker Hrastnik 1860 to launch what it calls a "smart" perfume bottle. The innovation involves both the way the fragrance is dispensed and the marketing opportunities it offers. First[…]
Aptar's Neomix brings personalization to a new level
Neomix, Aptar Beauty + Home's two-in-one airless pack launched in 2017, has been enhanced thanks to two new partnerships. In preview of the Luxe Pack show in Monaco, the dispensing specialist unveiled two turnkey solutions featuring both pack[…]
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Key Figures
18%
The drop in value in the French premium fragrance market, which stood at €1.21bn year-to-date end October 2020. However, the selective beauty market as a whole declined 22%. Source: The NPD Group