Pharma, Cosmetics & Personal Care

PureNil 0: food-contact safe, microplastic-free water dispersion; used in beauty/personal care/F&B; billed as first 100% plastic-free flexible substrate.

Designed for household paper recycling and safe biodegradation in nature, the sachet tackles paper’s toughest challenge, liquids, said Kelpi CEO Hugo Adams, making the launch significant.

The new pump’s cartridge, made from polypropylene and polyethylene, can be recycled in PET and PE streams when combined with HDPE, PP, or PET bottles.

This expansion affects packaging across the center’s home and personal care segments—where fragrances demand protection against volatile-compound degradation and scent loss over shelf life.

Holding four 10ml vials with a custom phase-change bottle for temperature control, the 240g pack’s slim design boosts storage density and reduces dimensional-weight shipping charges.

With the US acquisition and Lumson’s Asian position, the group’s international beauty/personal care packaging scale grows, deepening North American customer ties while Lombardi Design & MFG bolsters wider APAC presence.

With sustainability a persistent structural driver, recycled PET is growing in packaging and textiles; regional supply and demand rest on collection infrastructure, recycling capacity, regulation, and brand pledges.

Nine data points must be stored in the QR code: product ID, generic/brand names, manufacturer details, batch number, manufacturing/expiry dates, licence number, and excipients where relevant.

Now extended to 50ml and 100ml, the packaging uses a cylindrical, rounded-base container from Bormioli Luigi’s ecoLine range, a long-standing Coverpla partner.

Cooperation between the two countries will create opportunities in investment, tech transfer, and training, strengthening Africa’s production of essential medicines and equipment.