Thinking Outside the Box
Packaging
Our packaging technologists and strategic buyers challenge the status quo, sourcing innovative and sustainable beauty packaging solutions from across the globe. We offer everything from simple over-labelled PET bottles to custom-designed and completely bespoke tooled components while giving guidance around meeting sustainability goals.
Support With Tooling Projects
THG Labs Packaging team are experienced with tooling a variety of beauty componentry in many different materials. We work closely with suppliers to deliver tooled components which fit our customers’ requirements while also ensuring they are functional and compatible with your formula.
Testing Function
The Packaging team use their knowledge and expertise to create a test plan for a pack to ensure compatibility, functionality & safe transit. Using our in-house testing lab, we conduct industry standard compatibility & transit tests, but also develop bespoke testing as required.
Packaging Reporting
THG Labs can support on the reporting of legislative requirements & brand sustainability targets. Using a component specification system developed internally, we record granular material and weight data which we convert into charts and reports.
Design for Sustainability
Our extensive internal expertise consistently provides a strategic springboard when developing solutions for beauty brands looking to make real world sustainability-driven improvements.
Harnessing a creative mindset while adhering to established design for recyclability guidelines (RecyClass, UK Plastics Pact etc.), we’re able to utilise in-depth LCA data to model and redesign our environmental impacts for any piece of packaging.
Samuel Perry- Packaging Development Manager, THG Labs Acheson
Compliance of Global Sustainability Regulations
Combining our sustainable expertise and reporting capabilities, THG Labs Packaging team can help beauty brands collate data for sustainable regulations. We are continuously horizon scanning for new legislation which may impact product packaging so that we are always prepared when they come into force.
The UK Plastics Pact
We are members of The UK Plastics Pact and are aligned with the initiative's commitments around transforming the plastics packaging system.
THG LABS partner strategic suppliers to offer our customers Prevented Ocean Plastics (POP) certified recycled content.
With the ability to reach 100% PCR content in clear and opaque bottles this can drive; emission reductions, improved consumer perception, packaging quality and become a further selling point for your beauty brand.
The POP scheme collects waste plastic at an industrial scale with full traceability all over the world from high-risk areas such as coastlines and rivers to stop waste impacting nature.