EUROPEAN TUBES AWARDS
Accolades for consumer goods / Sustainable plastic packaging honoured
Packaging manufacturers Albéa (Gennevilliers, France; www.albea-group.com), Hoffmann Neopac (Thun, Switzerland; www.hoffmann-neopac.com), and Linhardt (Viechtach, Germany; www.linhardt.com) were among this year’s winners at the annual awards ceremony held by the European Tube Manufacturers Association (Etma, Düsseldorf, Germany; www.etma-online.org).
 Albéa came first in the plastic tube category with its packaging for Caudalie’s shower gel (Photo: Etma) |
A jury of representatives from Etma member companies judged categories that included plastic tubes, laminate tubes, prototypes, and sustainability.
In the plastic tubes category, Albéa won with a lightweight shower gel tube for Caudalie, made from its Thin-Wall and post-consumer recyclate (PCR) Max technology, combined with Slight Cap PP. The other winner was Hoffmann Neopac’s Picea tube for Liebwerk that contains more than 95% renewables – 10% spruce wood and 85% sugar-based material – and is said to offer a 40% better CO2 balance than a conventional polyethylene tube.
Albéa also led the laminates category with packaging for a La Roche-Posay body cream that uses its EcoFusion Top made from HDPE, combined with Metamorphosis, a paper-based solution that contains 60% less plastic than the product’s previous packaging.
Related: German packaging award winners
In the plastic tubes category, Albéa won with a lightweight shower gel tube for Caudalie, made from its Thin-Wall and post-consumer recyclate (PCR) Max technology, combined with Slight Cap PP. The other winner was Hoffmann Neopac’s Picea tube for Liebwerk that contains more than 95% renewables – 10% spruce wood and 85% sugar-based material – and is said to offer a 40% better CO2 balance than a conventional polyethylene tube.
Albéa also led the laminates category with packaging for a La Roche-Posay body cream that uses its EcoFusion Top made from HDPE, combined with Metamorphosis, a paper-based solution that contains 60% less plastic than the product’s previous packaging.
Related: German packaging award winners
 Hoffmann Neopac’ Polyfoil tube won in the prototypes category (Photo: Etma) |
Hoffmann Neopac scored a second win in the prototypes group with its PP-based Polyfoil monomaterial barrier (MMB) tube with a polypropylene closure or applicator. The body of the Polyfoil MMB tube uses less plastic than the standard Polyfoil range and reportedly reduces the carbon emissions of a 30 mm diameter tube by up to 40%.
In the sustainability category, Linhardt took first place with its Tube 4.0 for Alverde, which has a 30% thinner wall – 0.35 mm instead of 0.50 mm – and higher PCR content of between 60-70% instead of 50%. In the case of a 200 ml tube, the innovation is said to save 2.9 g of primary plastic per tube.
Commenting on the awards, Etma secretary general Gregor Spengler said, “Even in challenging times, our member companies are unwavering in their search for even better solutions in design, product protection, and the development of new materials and resource-saving packaging solutions.”
In the sustainability category, Linhardt took first place with its Tube 4.0 for Alverde, which has a 30% thinner wall – 0.35 mm instead of 0.50 mm – and higher PCR content of between 60-70% instead of 50%. In the case of a 200 ml tube, the innovation is said to save 2.9 g of primary plastic per tube.
Commenting on the awards, Etma secretary general Gregor Spengler said, “Even in challenging times, our member companies are unwavering in their search for even better solutions in design, product protection, and the development of new materials and resource-saving packaging solutions.”
05.09.2022 Plasteurope.com [251073-0]
Published on 05.09.2022