To demonstrate its commitment to the cosmetics industry and to the global design community, DuPont has become a partner of the Luxe Pack Design Award.  Now in its third edition, the competition is exclusively intended for young professional designers, who have to present an innovative project or solution concerning a specific theme.  This year, the challenge to participants relates to one of DuPont's main themes: to design a luxury water bottle.  The DuPont stand will exhibit the winners from the national competitions organised by the eight participating countries. The overall winner will be selected from these eight projects, and announced at the end of the show.

DuPont will use Luxe Pack as a platform to present latest developments in electroluminescent technology for added aesthetic appeal in luxury product display and packaging. Drawing on expertise from across DuPont, the miniaturisation of electroluminescent films, batteries and controllers, has enabled the company to develop cost-efficient, working prototypes of self-illuminating bottles and POS displays.  Shielded in tough, transparent DuPont™ Surlyn®, DuPont's electroluminescent technology creates new opportunities in high-performance, eye-catching cosmetics packaging with added shelf-appeal.

Caps for Clarins' new 'par Amour' perfume line, made by Qualipac, the French cosmetic packaging specialists, are perfect illustrations of the aesthetic and functional performance of Surlyn® resins.  The transparent, glass-like lids, allow the interaction of structure and light for an elegant visual effect which enhances the overall appeal of the bottle design.  The use of Surlyn® brings additional consumer-friendly features, such as lightness and chip and scratch resistance, plus the significant manufacturing advantage of allowing the production of thick parts with a clear, glass-like quality, and without voids, in an injection-molding process.

The use of Surlyn® in cosmetic applications continues to receive recognition within the packaging industry: German company Ileos GmbH won a 2005 Silver DuPont Packaging Award (awarded by an independent jury panel), for a cream-jar developed for the Maria Galland Exclusive cosmetics line.  This design is based on the idea of replacing  glass with Surlyn®, and has many innovative features: in-mold application of textured finishes (eliminating the need for post-molding treatment), wonderful tactile properties and, last but not least, safety for the consumer.

DuPont will also be promoting its new decorating technology based on Delrin® acetal resin at LuxePack 2005. Delrin® has long been used for numerous functional parts in cosmetics dispensers, which were then combined with aesthetic parts in other materials. Now, new grades and processes enable Delrin® to be painted or plated, giving designers more freedom to integrate form and function into fewer parts, often reducing cost and increasing productivity.

DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers is a world-class manufacturer of high-performance resins and films for a variety of packaging and industrial applications. Its best known ethylene copolymer products include Surlyn® resins for packaging and industrial applications, Bynel® coextrudable adhesives, Selar® barrier resins, Nucrel® acid copolymers, Elvax® EVA copolymers, Elvaloy®, Elvaloy AC® and Fusabond® modifiers, and Vamac® ethylene acrylic elastomers.

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