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BillerudKorsnäs unveils CrownBoard premium range

Launched at Luxe Pack Monaco, CrownBoard is BillerudKorsnäs’ new premium board brand. Its high tensile strength allows for substantial lightweighting when it comes to packaging."With CrownBoard, we’re looking to address the plastic...

Albéa and L’Oréal to launch paper tube

In a bid to reduce the amount of plastic used in its packaging, Albéa has teamed up with L'Oréal to develop a paper-based tube for cosmetics.The material is a type of laminate: one layer of paper is covered in two fine layers of...

Stora Enso unveils cardboard tube for skincare

The prototype presented at Luxe Pack Monaco is made of 70% cardboard paper with added barrier materials. The challenge being to reduce the use of plastic.The idea of a cardboard tube for cosmetics dates back to 2012, when a group of Finnish...

Interview

Lush sets the standard for greener packaging

Lush launched its first refillable lipstick earlier this year in partnership with supplier Reboul/Aptar. Nick Gumery, creative buyer for packaging at the UK brand, discusses how Lush is giving value and a much longer life span to its...

Texen introduces sustainable collections

Texen Beauty Partners has structured its eco-design strategy by creating a working group to zero in on three main avenues of innovation: reduce, reuse, and recycle.The manufacturer showcased the project’s initial developments at the latest...

Paptic launches its first collection

In keeping with its tagline, “not paper, not plastic,” Paptic is out to “forge a category of it s own”. The Finnish company, launched four years ago by a trio of engineers hailing from Finnish research institute VTT, has debuted the...