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Oct 29, 2021
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Oct 22, 2021
Innovating with nitrogen, bio-based ingredients and post-consumer recycled materials, Cosmosol is looking ahead to a sustainable future.
Cosmosol has designed and manufactured high-quality aerosol products since 1987, with a complete range of spray and dispensing. The market application covers a variety of product forms, from aerosol foams to water mist sprays and... [Read More]
Features
Oct 18, 2021
US aerosol associations and industry leaders have teamed up to create an online education hub for the aerosol and pressurised packaging sector.
A new ‘virtual classroom’ has been developed by US aerosol associations and global suppliers to provide educational courses on aerosols and pressurised packaging.
The Western Aerosol Information Bureau (WAIB), Consumer... [Read More]
Features
Oct 8, 2021
One of the industry’s most exciting innovations, TOPcolours, gives customers the chance to decorate aluminium aerosol cans while protecting the environment.
Sustainability is on everyone’s agenda and plays a vital role in developing new aerosol cans.
Aluminium aerosol cans have already contributed to sustainability and the circular economy by being fully and... [Read More]
Features
Sep 29, 2021
VARIO-PACK is continuously innovating to offer tailor-made solutions for viscous aerosol products such as adhesives, sealants, and greases.
Founded in 1992, VARIO-PACK Sprühsysteme originally focused on the development of liquids and slightly viscous products in spray cans and non-pressurised pump sprayers.
The ongoing refinement of bottling and processing technologies... [Read More]
Features
Sep 24, 2021
World Aerosols speaks to Matt Radmer, manager of the chemistry support group at insect control solutions firm MGK.
Could you tell our readers a bit about yourself and your role at MGK?
I came to MGK from a job in the pharmaceutical industry in May 2007, where I had previously been working as a synthetic chemist. MGK allowed me to learn about product formulation.... [Read More]
Features
Sep 20, 2021
Nicholas Georges, vice-president of Scientific & International Affairs at the Household and Commercial Products Association (HCPA), delves into the issue of aerosol coatings and their impact on the environment.
For those of you who do business in the US, you’re probably aware of the volatile organic compound (VOC) regulations under the Clean Air Act. The California... [Read More]
Features
Aug 27, 2021
Precision has reinvented its original ACCUSOL actuator, an innovative product launched in the 1980s, to improve usability and sustainability.
Precision’s original ACCUSOL actuator was developed in the 1980s and introduced as the first trigger spray system for pressurised products in 1984. The concept behind this innovative development was to provide customers with... [Read More]
Features
Aug 20, 2021
Howard Ray and Wade Scheel, of Clean Earth, discuss the importance of aerosol recycling and its role in achieving sustainability goals.
After a tumultuous year, companies are eager to return to pre-pandemic success and pick up plans that were put on hold. Many of those plans included sustainability initiatives, such as working to move toward zero waste, as opposed... [Read More]
Features
Aug 13, 2021
Gary Okey, of US-based Recycle Aerosol, shares a case study on recycling a valuable microscopic miracle in behavioural pest control.
Sex pheromones have been commercially available for insect pest control for about 35 years. It has steadily gained acceptance due to continual improvements in application and management, as entomologists gain an increasing scientific... [Read More]
Features
Jul 19, 2021
Mall + Herlan has added several innovations to its machinery portfolio.
With hardly any exhibitions taking place last year, Mall + Herlan is kicking off 2021 with new innovations in its machinery portfolio.
First up, is its new high-speed line CMX. Mall + Herlan’s impact extrusion line comprises the complete technology to produce monobloc aerosol cans or bottles.... [Read More]
Features
Jul 9, 2021
Gary Okey, executive vice-president of Recycle Aerosol, explores the sustainability credentials of aluminium aerosol containers.
There is an ongoing debate in the packaging industry driven largely by the much broader, growing public interest in the proper stewardship of our planet’s resources.
First, I should state that Recycle Aerosol’s core energies have been... [Read More]
Features
Jun 30, 2021
Gopal Nemlekar, CEO of Indian aerosol caps and seals producer Media Manoeuvre, shares his experiences in coping with the COVID-19 crisis as a business.
2020, a year that dawned as a harbinger of doom, jolted all of us from our comfort zones. The pandemic and the resultant lockdowns negatively impacted businesses on an unprecedented scale. Sudden changes in the traditional... [Read More]
Features
Jun 21, 2021
Recent regulatory changes have paved the way towards international harmonisation in aerosol transportation, writes Steve Hunt of ShipMate, a dangerous goods consulting company.
The US made two giant leaps toward international harmonisation earlier this year, but still has a long way to go.
Elimination of the ORM-D classification
Thirty years ago, the US Department... [Read More]
Features
Jun 7, 2021
Pronova Laboratories’s new aerosol technology has excited the industry.
Based in Muiden in the Netherlands, Pronova Laboratories develops over-the-counter medical devices and cosmetic products. Founded in 1997 when it started developing its first product, Wartner®, a medical device for the removal of warts, Pronova has developed innovative technology that is set... [Read More]
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