KINGSPORT, Tenn., USA, June 1, 2021 — LVMH Perfumes & Cosmetics, a division of luxury powerhouse LVMH, today announces its collaboration with global specialty material provider Eastman (NYSE: EMN) to develop packaging made possible through Eastman’s molecular recycling technologies.
SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, today announced that Beiersdorf will innovate the packaging of its world-leading ‘NIVEA Naturally Good’ range of face creams using SABIC’s certified renewable polymers. SABIC’s bio-based polypropylene (PP) resin, part of its TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio, will be used for producing the jars of Beiersdorf’s NIVEA Naturally Good day and night face creams. The new NIVEA packaging will be phased in at point-of-sale outlets worldwide from June 2021 onwards and make a major contribution to help Beiersdorf reduce its use of fossil-based virgin PP.
Beiersdorf sets new standards: the packaging of the NIVEA Naturally Good face care range will be switched from fossil-based virgin plastic to renewable plastic around the world. The certified renewable polypropylene (PP) of SABIC’s TRUCIRCLETM portfolio is derived from a ‘second generation’ feedstock, a by-product of the forestry-industry.
Shoppers have long been able to use nutrition labels to choose low-salt meals or reduced-sugar cereal. Now some companies want to use labels to help them pick everything from shampoo to milk, based on products’ carbon emissions.
The 100% biodegradable alternative to polystyrene is already being snapped up by major brands, as the company sets its sights set on rapid European expansion. The Magical Mushroom Company (MMC), today announces the launch of large-scale production of its mushroom-derived biodegradable packaging, a plastic-free alternative that can be broken up to biodegrade on a home compost heap or flowerbed. Uniquely, this new packaging offers the same performance, at comparable cost, to traditional polystyrene, and is already being used to protect goods ranging from cookers, to cosmetics and a huge variety of everyday consumer products, including Diageo’s non-alcoholic gin brand, Seedlip.
We’re on a mission to help reduce global waste. From using alternative materials to creating packaging innovations, we’re determined to transform the way we all think about the products we buy. Because, for lasting change, we need to shift our mindsets: buying less but better, and being inspired by the times that existed before our ‘disposable’ culture, when the things we bought were made to last. To help accelerate the global beauty industry’s progress towards addressing plastic waste, we’ve created our first refillable deodorant to help transform your daily routine.
Stora Enso is introducing a paperboard tube for cosmetics packaging as a new, climate-friendly alternative to plastic tubes. The paperboard tube is suitable for the primary packaging of skin cream products.
Combating climate change and reducing the environmental impacts of packaging are high on the agenda for cosmetic brands who want to drive this change. Stora Enso aims to take the lead in supporting leading cosmetics brands in reaching their sustainability targets by co-developing climate-friendly packaging solutions that are both renewable and recyclable.
Garnier, the world’s leading natural beauty brand, is committed to the growing quest for natural solutions and ways to respect the environment. The brand has reinvented its iconic Ultra Doux line thanks to a new format: the solid shampoo.The result of Garnier’s desire to provide consumers with greener sciences and formulas, these shampoos contain no soap, sulfates, preservatives or silicones, and they are vegan.
Old Spice and Secret were the first major brands to introduce all-paper, plastic-free, deodorant solutions in May of 2020. Following the success of that limited-edition pilot, both brands are expanding this offering nationwide with an aluminum free deodorant formula.
Most recently, Orlandi has added a V-Shapes ALPHA automatic packaging machine to its production platform for manufacture of unique, sustainable, and convenient single-dose packaging solutions for its own packaging operation and well as for contract packaging use.Once we are past the pandemic.
The cosmetics giant wants to generalize the substitution of plastics by cardboard in the primary packaging of its products. The advances already made with Ecologic Brands for Seed Phytonutrients, and with Albéa for La Roche Posay will be extended to new brands.
As 2020 has comes to an end, Robert Lockyer, CEO and founder of Delta Global, a sustainable and innovative packaging solutions provider for luxury retail brands around the world, reflects and offers his view on what we can expect in the year to come.
