| To meet its customers’ growing demand for tubes with more and more advanced features and graphics, Alcan Packaging Beauty constantly thinks up innovative products, processes and services.
New products for sumptuous designs:
Tube designs are becoming more and more sophisticated in every market segment. Because products are launched globally through stronger and stronger brands and the creative codes for luxury products are more and more refined, current trends are for graphics combinations and photo-quality rendering.
Hot stamping is combined with offset printing, pearlized colors mix with flexo gradations, mat finishes work alongside gloss highlights to striking effect and silkscreening joins forces with CTP* to deliver graphics that match anything a label can offer.
That’s why Alcan Packaging Beauty is investing in a state-of-the-art printing machine in France. The new-generation machine can achieve outstanding printing quality in hot stamping, silkscreening and flexography, with photographic rendering and label-standard graphics.
New processes for smarter tubes:
Applicator tubes have enjoyed a boom in recent years as they offer a packaging solution with application suited to every product.
Since the launch of the “Artist” tube in 2006, Alcan Packaging Beauty has constantly broadened its range of smart applicator tubes suited to the different formulations on the market. Thanks to a brush, pump, bevel or brush, these tubes combine comfort with precise application, convenient packaging and ease of use, whether for make-up or skincare, face or body.
New services for a comprehensive offering:
Alcan Packaging Beauty tubes are easy to fill and easy to use. Product delivery rates are high, while consumers fully control application and enjoy outstanding convenience.
To enhance its offering further, Alcan Packaging Beauty offers its customers uniquely focused expertise through specific components (e.g. applicator tips) sourced from Asia via our trading network together with Cebal’s know-how in making and printing sleeves.
This one-stop proposal covers selection and qualification of industrial partners, materials traceability, world-class product quality, logistics management and checks on patent rights.
Alcan Packaging Beauty achieved US$800 million in sales in 2006 and serves its customers through 26 manufacturing sites in 11 countries. Its industrial and sales network covers Europe, Asia and the Americas to ensure the same standard of excellence for every customer worldwide, based on technical know-how, reliability and responsiveness, flow control and product, process and service innovation.
Alcan Packaging Beauty is part of Alcan Packaging (Alcan Group), the world leader in packaging solutions for the Beauty, Food, Pharmacy and Tobacco markets.
Alcan Inc. (NYSE, TSX: AL) is a leading global materials company, delivering high quality products and services worldwide. With world-class technology and operations in bauxite mining, alumina processing, primary metal smelting, power generation, aluminum fabrication, engineered solutions as well as flexible and specialty packaging, today’s Alcan is well positioned to meet and exceed its customers’ needs. Alcan is represented by 68,000 employees, including its joint-ventures, in 61 countries and regions, and posted revenues of US$23.6 billion in 2006. The Company has featured on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index consecutively since 2003. For more information, please visit: www.alcan.com.
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