Flexible and economic tube laminate production

Extrusion process enables producer of cosmetic tubes a more flexible production

There is hardly any other industry demanding higher flexibility in production than the cosmetic industry.

The market of seamless cosmetic tubes today offers brilliant designs of tubes as packing for the cosmetic industry. But it expects a high flexibility from the production and their operators. Main reason: the tube design changes often in order to be individual and attractive. Also here it counts more than for other products: Packaging sells.

The average order in this business is often not more than 50.000 tubes. Following orders request than different diameter, different layer configuration, different length and finally a complete different decoration. In other words: the extrusion system and the following equipment must have a high grade of flexibility.

With the BREYER tube extrusion system TOPline and ECO line worldwide active customers being already in this business are very successful for many years. Their production equipment allows them to fulfil all these requirements from the cosmetic industry.

A different situation of producers of so called PBL tubes (plastic barrier laminate tubes) are faced. Compared to the extruded tubes these kind of tubes are made from a web laminate and have visible side seam. Most of their production sizes is usually above 100.000 tubes per order. Laminate film itself is supplied by international players of the film industry to the tube manufacturers. High speed film lines, side-seamers and printers allow an economic  mass production of such film but the individual design for small orders is not given resp is not economically.
To improve this situation for laminate tube producers BREYER offers now a smart solution based on their experience of extrusion systems for flat film and extruded tubes.

The extrusion line with working width of 1600mm, 800mm, 400mm or less allow the production of slitted flat film with a flexible configuration of different layers (3, 5 or more), for different tube diameters and lengths.

Barrier layers out of EVOH, PA, PET, COC are also possible.

Furthermore properties as color and haptic which is most important for the first impression of the tube product, can be easily adapted by using different polymers like PET, PP, PA, PE or other blended Polyolefines.

An isolated inner layer even allows the usage of recycled material which are not in contact with the product in the tube.
The inline process of flat web extrusion furthermore allows the production of ABL or the laminating of the film web by additional decorating film or even to apply an embossed structure.

Thanks to the development of inline web printers with digital or analog printing process also small lots can be realized in an economic way.

 The advantage for laminate tube producers is that they can now produce their own individual flat film with individual designs with a high flexibility also for small tube order lots. Furthermore the adding value is the in-house production of the film web.