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Throughout June, IoPP presents educational content on health & beauty packaging through its "IoPP Spotlight" education initiative. If you're an IoPP member, you can opt in to receive this insightful educational content throughout the month. Simply update your member profile to receive the content you want. If you're not a member, join IoPP now as an individual member so you don't miss out on this and many other valuable member benefits — including frequent webinars — throughout the year. IoPP Spotlight months will provide tips and trends, insights and updates from various subject matter experts working in partnership with IoPP. And throughout June, much more about health and beauty packaging. IoPP Spotlight in June is sponsored by Battelle and supported by HBA Global and Packaging Digest.
Click here for IoPP's June Spotlight.
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In this upcoming webinar, and as part of this month's Spotlight focus on health & beauty packaging, Chandra Arcot, Co-Founder, Axiom Consulting, will present "Physical to Virtual Packaging Testing: the Journey." This informative webinar will analyze the breakthrough benefits of using virtual simulation technology in the early phases of package development. The focus will be on distribution testing, with examples from beauty packaging and other segments. The webinar, taking place from 10 to 11 a.m. CDT June 18, is open at no extra charge to all IoPP members. The nonmember fee is $99.
Click here for details and registration.
| HEALTH & BEAUTY PACKAGING NEWS |
Beauty Packaging
Color cosmetics are hot, hot hot — overtaking skin care in sales for the first time in years. Whether mass or prestige, consumers are looking for products in packaging that stands out with a high-end look. And suppliers are responding by delivering cosmetics that are not only attractive, but also portable, effective, multifunctional, customized and cleverly named to boot — as makeup aficionados want it all.
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By Sharon Derbyshire
Consumers want cosmetic, personal care and household products that are convenient and easy to use. This has resulted in an increased demand for packaging where the applicator is included as part of the package and viewed as a key piece of the package design, rather than just an accessory. Performance is driving innovation, with a growing demand for applicators designed to control dispensing and complement the product's formulation.
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Packaging Digest
Some of the most intriguing new developments in personal care packaging and cosmetics packaging center on functionality or sustainability rather than looks, based on packaging designs highlighted at the recent Luxe Pack trade show. Several of the show's standout packages offered unusual functionality, like in-pack heating of products, or playing audio messages when a button on the box is pushed.
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IoPP is pleased to announce that the AmeriStar Package Awards presentation will be taking place online at www.iopp.org in June. This presentation acknowledges and respects your busy schedule, allowing flexibility so you can view the presentation directly on your computer without having to travel to a presentation location! The AmeriStar "virtual" presentation will take place in two parts. At 10 a.m. CDT on Monday, June 29, the AmeriStar Award winners in all categories will be announced. Also at 10 a.m. CDT on Tuesday, June 30, the top three award winners will be honored: Best of Show Award, Design Excellence Award and Sustainable Packaging Award. To view the awards presentation each day, visit www.iopp.org/AmeriStar.
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Over 80 packaging professionals have achieved certification through IoPP since Jan. 1. Career movers and shakers in 2015 so far have been designated Certified Packaging Professionals, Certified Professionals In Training, Recertified and Lifetime Certified. Being professionally designated takes commitment and hard work, and IoPP would like to commend those members who have met and exceeded this professional milestone.
Click here to see who is moving up by achieving the Certified Packaging Professional designation.
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Following the recent launch of the Certified Packaging Professional designation in Australasia, the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is pleased to announce that the inaugural recipient of the CPP designation is Pierre Pienaar, FAIP, CPP. "What I like about the CPP program is that it helps the international packaging fraternity to better understand the level of knowledge and expertise that you truly have in the packaging field. The CPP Program ensures that candidates are regularly keeping abreast of current packaging trends, innovations and knowledge and the program ensures that packaging technologists are on the same level playing field globally."
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June 16
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IoPP Central Indiana Chapter Baseball Night, Indianapolis, Indiana |
Contact: Doug Martin, email ioppindiana@alo.com. Click here for more information. |
June 17
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IoPP Meadowlands Chapter Meeting, East Rutherford, New Jersey |
Contact: Gordon Ellis, email gellis@estee.com. Click here for more information. |
June 18
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IoPP Webinar: "Physical to Virtual Packaging Testing: the Journey," Online |
Click here for more information. |
June 23
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Chicago Chapter 19th Annual Golf Benefit, Wheeling, Ilinois |
Contact: Wil Benjamin, CPP, email wbenjamin@rich.com. Click here for more information. |
Quartz
Coca-Cola has unveiled its first PET bottle made entirely from plant materials at the Expo Milano. Instead of fossil fuels and other non-renewable materials, plant bottle's technology converts sugarcane and waste from the sugar manufacturing process into the materials to make PET plastic bottles. Other companies, including Coke's competitor Pepsi, have also released plant-based bottles, and some have questioned whether they are actually much better for the environment.
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Packaging World
In package design, "less is more" has become a mantra. Need proof? Start with the design firms, big and small, that chime it. Packaging trade magazines join in with articles about designs that purportedly embody the phrase. Contest judges add their voices, commonly describing winning designs as clean, sleek and uncluttered. There's a catchiness to "less is more," likely owing to its counter-intuitive — even contradictory — nature. The opposite argument also can be made.
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Healthcare Packaging
Technological innovation and environmental awareness, along with moderate growth in the pharmaceutical markets in North American and Europe are leading to high consumption of pharmaceutical packaging in these regions. And due to rising spending capacity of consumers in Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world, the pharmaceutical market is projected to witness a steady growth rate in those regions.
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PSFK
Rendering the everyday more charming is a unique design challenge, a bike rack was transformed into an accordion and a trash can became an animated monster among other riffs on packaging formats. Rendering the everyday more charming is a unique design challenge. To tout their craftsmanship in packaging, ImagoBOX created life-size packaging that both enhanced and blended into the urban environment.
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Packaging World
Aluminum cans are the most recycled and highest value beverage container on the market today, a new report has found. The aluminum can contains 70 percent recycled content on average — more than three times that of glass or PET bottles. The study also found that aluminum-can recycled material is worth nearly 300 percent more per ton than plastic or glass.
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Packaging Digest
Food packaging equipment professionals are best positioned to safely and effectively design, configure or specify food packaging equipment when they understand the risks of allergens and contamination on packaged food safety. Equipment engineers and stakeholders are well-advised to collaborate with food safety and quality managers in the quest to control hazards and provide safe products to consumers.
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