Corporate strategy

Eastman signs MoU with ELC for recycled plastics
The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) has signed a global Memorandum of Understanding with chemicals company Eastman to boost its use of recycled and recyclable plastics in its packaging. ELC is to incorporate packaging solutions enabled by Eastman’s[…]

CTK Cosmetics launches digital innovation platform CTK CLIP
Convinced that full-service is the future, South Korean packaging and formulation specialist CTK Cosmetics is aiming to make it easier for companies to develop turnkey beauty products with the launch of CTK CLIP, its online innovation platform.[…]

Stoelzle to debut US production with purchase of Anchor Hocking Glass site
With its acquisition of Anchor Hocking Glass Company’s glassworks in Pennsylvania, Austria’s Stoelzle Glass Group is expanding its global footprint into North America. On March 1st, Stoelzle Glass Group bought Anchor Hocking Glass Company’s[…]

FS Korea drives eco-design of applicator portfolio
Korean manufacturer of brushes and other packs and applicators, FS Korea is moving to focus its engineering on more eco-friendly products. Its research on materials, recyclability and reusability are leading to a string of new concepts. For the[…]

Steklarna Hrastnik inaugurates new furnace, invests in decoration
Cementing its focus on the premium spirits and perfumery markets after shuttering its tableware business last year, this week Slovenian glassmaker Steklarna Hrastnik inaugurated its new furnace for extra white flint glass. Steklarna Hrastnik’s[…]

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Salinas Packaging Group – A year of meeting challenges
The acquisition of Fabregas in February, creation of an international division in April, launch of its e-think tank makebox.design in November, and conversion to a 4.0 industrial model to meet CSR challenges… In 2020 the Spanish leader in luxury[…]

Dossier
Taking stock in the glass industry: crisis, innovation & sustainability
In the world of luxury packaging, glass has long been king. In our monthly Dossier, we take an in-depth look at how the health crisis is impacting glassmakers, what could be put into place to boost the sector's profitability and what is in the[…]

Behind Courbet's strategy to pioneer sustainable jewelry
Manuel Mallen believes that lab-grown diamonds are the future. A veteran of the high jewelry market, having managed Baume & Mercier and Piaget, the Founder and President of French maison Courbet talks about the brand’s ecological and[…]

Pusterla 1880 acquires Groupe Adine, boosts presence in France
Italian packaging group Pusterla 1880 has purchased French luxury coffret manufacturer Groupe Adine. The acquisition comes on the heels of the arrival of new minority shareholder Andera Partners into Pusterla 1880’s capital earlier this year.[…]

Stoelzle opens premium spirits activity at Masnières site
Just one month after Stoelzle Masnières fired up its new furnace, the Austrian glassmaker is poised to launch the production of bottles and carafes for the premium spirits market at its historic French glassworks. Following the opening of its[…]