Archives for June 7, 2005

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Alcan sells beauty bottle business

Canada-based Alcan is to sell its European beauty bottle business, Decoplast, to IPH Group Spid - a move that sees the small French company breaking into beauty packaging for the first time, reports Simon Pitman.

Nanotechnology ups cosmetic formulation

UK company Malvern has supplied researchers at Particle Sciences in Pennsylvania, US, with a nano particle characterisation system as part of efforts to improve the formulation of its recently developed encapsulated form of retinol, reports Simon Pitman.