The PET cosmetic packaging market is constantly expanding, driven by the growing demand for personalized and sustainable products. According to recent industry studies, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of the PET packaging market in the sector is estimated to be around 5.5% for the period 2024-2031, according to the most accurate industry studies [1].
The choice of PET by cosmetic companies is driven by several factors. First of all, its lightness helps to reduce transport costs and environmental impact. Furthermore, PET is an inert material, which does not interact with most cosmetic products, thus guaranteeing their integrity.
In this article we will talk about the reasons that led an important company in the sector to choose SIPA technology for its PET packaging, starting from the needs to move on to the solutions identified and the results achieved.
Who is Ho.Bag
Founded in 2003 as a commercial company specialized in cosmetics, in 2009 H0.Bag started the first packaging production from its own lines.
With the opening of the production plant in San Vendemiano in 2020, the company has evolved into a real industrial reality, inaugurating a new phase of development and growth. These are the numbers today: more than 90 employees, 3 offices in Italy and abroad, over 10,000 pallet places within the company warehouses.
The company's initial needs
Ho.Bag pays particular attention to environmental protection, attaching importance and value to every single business process, with a focus also and above all on packaging.
The headquarters and production plant use only energy from renewable sources; all Ho.Bag products are made of recycled or bio-based material, using carefully selected quality raw materials from a certified and controlled supply chain. All this to arrive at an efficient and monitored production, in order to achieve a level of efficiency that allows to reduce the waste of resources, while always maintaining attention to product quality.
Hence the choice to identify a supplier of packaging machines capable of using post-consumer recycled PET (rPET) together with virgin polymers.
Why choose SIPA
Initially Ho.Bag started the production of PET bottles by adopting two ISBM ECS SP 25 monostage systems and numerous molds made by SIPA.
The relationship between the two companies was further consolidated when Ho.Bag needed to use machines capable of using rPET, in addition to the need to provide its customers with a very wide range of containers of various sizes, shapes and colors, even very small ones.
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The technological solutions provided by SIPA
SIPA responded to these needs by providing its ECS SP. These are extremely robust, versatile and extremely energy efficient machines, thanks to the hybrid drive technology that uses servo-assisted motors to guarantee speed and precision during injection, and hydraulic drives to manage the most demanding operations.
These systems boast the fastest cycle time on the market, allowing a quick and easy mold change, and allowing the use of the same hot runner system on different cold halves.
Not only that, SIPA's ECS SP operates without problems using rPET. It allows the production of packaging in many colors, in particular an attractive black PET bottle that can be detected by NIR (near-infrared) detectors to improve the selection of containers during the sorting phase, within the plastic recycling flows.
Traditional carbon black pigments are invisible to NIR, so Ho.Bag uses a PET containing an alternative pigment that allows the sorting machines to assign the correct flow.
It should be emphasized that ECS SP 25 has no problems in handling this type of material.
SIPA and H0.Bag: a look at the future, thinking of growing further
SIPA and Ho.Bag do not stop at these excellent results, continuing to collaborate on a growing number of containers.
Ho.Bag regularly takes care of the in-house development of individual products, turning to SIPA for specific prototyping and testing services, using a single supplier for both the packaging production technology and the technical support services: a not negligible advantage.
