Videojet sets a new pace with CO2 laser systems

Videojet’s CO2 Laser Marking Systems Boost Productivity by Improving Line Integration

Packline brings Ultravac to UK market

The Ultravac vacuum packaging chamber machines are ideal for use by small and mid-sized food packers and processors

Innovation is anything but a cliché

Sustainable Cosmetics Summit Asia

MANY raw materials for natural and organic cosmetics are sourced in Asia, where many plant species are indigenous but are not cultivated and in fact often endangered and threatened by climate change. Ingredients suppliers who cater to the growing number of natural and organic cosmetic companies worldwide need to deal with physical and ethical standards throughout the supply chain. Manufacturers of natural and organic personal care products and cosmetic are held to the same socially responsible a

What’s in Korea?

Speaking at Market Trends Seminar during in-cosmetics Asia 2013, FLORENCE BERNARDIN, the founder of cosmetic market analysts Information & Inspiration, offered an insight into the South Korean market

The Active Arsenal

Consumers and scientists alike are looking for the same thing these days: the hottest ingredients. Inside today’s leading skin care labs, R&D teams are assessing active ingredients to see which will drive their next cream, serum and lotion to new levels of performance. Meanwhile in stores and online, skin care shoppers are reading labels and ads to see which brands are touting the newest technologies that promise to lessen fine lines and wrinkles, lighten sun spots and restore their skin’s youth

interpack 2014: Edelmann presents 7 concepts

‘Concepts’ to be shown at Hall 11, booths A14-A18 bring together services that are based on Edelmann’s technological, creative and process-oriented expertise

DuPont opens agro tech hub in Africa

Newly expanded facility will use the most advance technologies, houses Africa’s first private insectary

Aiming for game-changing brand innovation

WHAT makes one beauty package stand out from the next? The answers run the gamut—from shape to materials, decoration to dispenser. Here we look at a sampling of packaging ideas recently emerging in the marketplace.

Innovative Packaging: The brightest bulbs on the shelf

EVERY year there are quite a few innovative launches from some of the beauty industry’s Top Packaging Innovators. For a bit of a cross-pollination approach, I like to start by researching other categories to discover what great new introductions have taken place and what their effect on beauty may be.

Formulary

Latest Patent Reviews on Actives

US Patent No. 8,551,542; The US Patent Office has issued a patent for the SeroVital formula, an oral growth hormone booster that’s been clinically validated to raise mean, serum (blood) hGH levels by 682%. The patent protects the SeroVital formula as a method and composition for increasing growth hormone.