New TricorBraun Website Offers Enhanced Search

New TricorBraun Website Offers Enhanced Search

• TricorBraun has relaunched http://tricorbraun.com, a revised enhanced website that simplifiessearching among the company’s more than 35,000 rigid packaging products, according to the company.

RapidFind 2.0 offers a more intuitive product search function in addition to a new text-seeking capability so users can review their packaging options more quickly and with superior precision than its predecessor version, which was considered the industry leader when introduced in 1998.

It is designed like a traditional retail website and enables its users to refine ongoing searches though a series of filters that appear on the screen. Refinements also allow the site to be used effortlessly by smart phones.

“TricorBraun sources rigid packaging components on a worldwide basis, offering customers unmatched options.Our mission with the new website is to assure that its users are not overwhelmed by the selection’s size. We are certain website visitors can make informed decisions smoothly and quickly. This will help businesses achieve greater speed to market,” according to Keith Strope, president and chief executive officer of the company.

In addition to www.tricorbraun.com, TricorBraun Design and Engineering’s and TricorBraun WinePak’s websites have been revised.

The Design and Engineering site includes additional case studies to help users learn how packaging challenges have been overcome by other businesses.

More info: www.tricorbraun.com

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This skin care collection features M&H hybrid print technology.

M&H Plastics Doles Out a Serving of Fruit
• Nspa, a line of personal care created by Nirvana Spa, selected M&H Plastics for the re-packaging of its mouth-watering Nspa Fruit collection of skin care products. The company said it selected M&H because the firm had the capability to manufacture, print and label the bottles, jars and tubes in-house.

M&H manufactured a 225ml tube for the range of scrubs and body lotions, which were decorated using M&H’s new hybrid print technology to give photo-realistic images of the fruits on pack. The body butter range used M&H’s 250ml body butter jars while the shower and bath gels took M&H 500ml flat base Boston round bottles.

More info: www.mhplastics.com

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New applicators from James Alexander

James Alexander Bulks Up Ampoules Offerings
• James Alexander Corporation introduced an expanded line of highly functional, uniquely shaped applicator heads for its patented line of plastic ampoules. The new applicators can be made from materials such as, but not limited to, cosmetic foam, felts, wools, polyurethane and uncompressed melamine. All of the new tips can be laminated for coarser applications. The largest of the rectangular applicator heads is 1.5 inches wide and the largest of the circular applicator heads is 1 inch in diameter. Both are designed to fit James Alexander’s largest unit-dose tube, which can hold up to 5ml, according to the company.

More info: www.james-alexander.com

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The cap features a flexible plug.

WWP Creates Complex Cap For Chocolate Toothpaste
• World Wide Packaging LLC. (WWP) has met innovation with elegance by housing the first “chocolate toothpaste.” The new Theodent, which successfully substitutes fluoride for a blend of minerals that includes cocoa bean extract, is offered in a sophisticated WWP tube whose angular shape and shallow depth afford a sleek yet professional appeal, according to the company. The head of the one-piece tube is triangular in shape, with dramatic hard edges punctuated by one of the most complex caps ever commercially produced.The cap includes a flexible plug.

Available at select Whole Foods Market locations, Theodent offers an alternative to consumers through a formula that relies on cocoa bean extracts. However, the toothpaste has a traditional mint taste as opposed to a chocolate flavor.

“An innovative product deserves an intriguing tube to help it stand out among its competitors,” said Jeffrey M. Hayet, executive vice president, global sales, WWP. “We are proud to be the packaging partner for such a creative and promising product.”

More info: www.wwpinc.com

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DCS Acquires Disc Connection
• Disc Connection, a national supplier of jar discs for DW, SW and glass jars, has been acquired by DCS Packaging Company, a national supplier of plastic packaging components for the HBA industry.

“Acquiring Disc Connection is a perfect fit integrating jar disc sales into our current business model,” said Tom Howard, president of DCS.

Jar discs are available in white or clear PVC, .007 and .015mm thickness. Sizes range from 33-100mm and fit most domestic manufactured jars.

More info: www.dcspackagingcompany.com

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This hair care line utilizes Lumson’s TAG System.

Lumson Teams Up with Franck Provost
• Franck Provost has launched three new hair care serums using Lumson’s TAG System. Serum Lissant, Absolu de Lumiére and Huile Sublime utilize Lumon’s airless system featuring a glass bottle that protects the formula’s ingredients and guarantees a longer preservation of the product, according to the company.

Lumson’s 50ml Tag System glass bottles have been internally coated with basic colors (white and black) in contrast with special decorations showing trendy graphics for a strong visual impact, all of them made by Lumson with colored or silver ceramic screen printing. The dispensing system has been UV metalized in shiny silver and protected by a clear Tag overcap.

More info: www.lumson.com

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Qosmedix To Unveil Innovations At MakeUp in New York
• Qosmedix will debut its latest product innovations at the MakeUp in New York tradeshow from Sept. 12-13, 2012 at Studio 450 in New York City.

On display at the company’s booth will be products for which Qosmedix is best known, including makeup sponges, professional brushes, false eyelashes and disposable applicators.

More info: www.qosmedix.com

Who Made NJPEC’s 2012 Hall of Fame? The New Jersey Packaging Executives Club has selected five packaging professionals for induction into the Packaging Hall of Fame. They are: Don Cardiff, sales manager USA and Canada, Stolzle Oberglas GmbH; Bill Kunz, president, Kunz Consulting Services; Jim Detwiler, executive director packaging & purchasing, Chanel USA; Steve Mohary, associate director global engineering at J&J C&PC; associate director package development at Johnson & Johnson; and Navin Desai, 411 International Corp (in memoriam). They will be inducted at the NJ Packaging Executives Club award dinner, which will be held on Sept. 13 at The Manor in West Orange. More Info: www.njpec.org