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A new way to create tubes: the ESTube, by CTL Packaging USA

Beauty, Personal Care, Cosmetics, Personal Care, Cosmeceutical, Health, Primary Packaging, Tubes, Tubes - Plastic, Flexibles, Film, Sheet, Printing, Labelling Machinery, Plastic, Packaging Decoration, Printing, Supply Chain Services

For more than 50 years, CTL Packaging has provided the highest quality plastic tubes in the European market. We work directly with our customers to develop high-end plastic tubes with unmatchable decoration capabilities, and we are constantly innovating for both extruded and injected molded elliptical and cylindrical tubes.

At our US plant, we've launched the absolute latest innovation in plastic tube technology called the ESTube (Easy Supply Tube). The ESTube is an injection-molded plastic tube with an in-mold label, and it’s the ultimate solution for the plastic industry. This technology combines superior decoration with improved supply chain performance and optimal run sizes. It also reduces lead-times and provides the best TCO (total cost of ownership) in the market.

Rather than use long, extruded tubes that are snipped and shaped, the ESTube uses a number of pre-decorated film labels fed into a system that injects plastic into them, quickly shaping and assembling them with tube heads. In fact, when combined with CTL's advanced printing techniques, incredible and unique runs can be created.

The ESTube is the culmination of nearly 10 years of research and experimentation on existing, proven technologies. The ESTube is not only an innovation in plastic tubes, it’s an innovation in supply chain technology. The way companies order and purchase tubes today will be entirely transformed. Tube manufacturing can now be aligned with customer needs more than ever before.

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CTL Packaging once again receives the “Tube of the Year” award

CTL Packaging has once again received the “Tube of the Year” Award! The European Association of Tube Manufacturers (ETMA) has awarded CTL Packaging's prototype “Be Unique” in the category ‘Tube of the year'. The jury, composed of journalists and leading European tube manufacturers, have underscored the innovation required to develop a technology that allows printing different decorations on individual tubes in a single run.

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  • Modified 17 Oct 2016
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