More plastic, more sustainable: FusionPKG on mono-material airless pumps
Q&A
In the search for more sustainable packaging, suppliers like FusionPKG are trading in metal components for plastic to improve recyclability.
CosmeticsDesign spoke with Alexander Kwapis, vice president of product design and development at FusionPKG, about the new all-plastic airless pump and its sustainability impact.
Tell me a little bit about the packaging
For a long time now we've been developing polypropylene packages to work towards being more sustainable and recyclable. In July of this year, we launched this all-plastic spring. It’s sort of like a bellow, it uses a flexible spring, but instead of being in the product's path, where you can have compatibility issues, this is outside the product pathway.
It has all the normal airless components and this way, you're going to have a nice premium experience without having any formula interaction. We have flexibility so if there is some issue for some reason, we can go back and forth between metal and plastic.