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Chanel turns to sustainable packaging for its new beauty range
High-fashion label Chanel has introduced an innovative and eco-responsible packaging materials for its skincare products, enabled by a four-year collaboration with Finnish material innovation start-up Sulapac. Chanel’s new N°1 de Chanel Cream will use eco-design packaging from sustainable Sulapac material, with a lid made of bio- based materials.
“The new-generation lid of the N°1 de Chanel Cream is made of 90% bio-based materials from renewable resources: FSC-certifi ed wood chips that are by- products of industrial side streams, combined with camellia seed shells. It was a genuine technological challenge that has now resulted in several patent-pending applications,” said a Chanel spokesperson. The packaging not only had to be faithful to Chanel’s exacting standards, but also it had to off er high resistance to heat and moisture, among other Chanel- specifi c requirements. This led to Sulapac presenting 40 prototypes for Chanel to test. “Our fi rst big task was to innovate a bio-
based material that contains by-product camellia seed shells whilst making it resistant to heat and moisture. Camellia is inherently hydrophilic material, meaning it absorbs water strongly. Solving this was a great accomplishment, and it’s the fi rst time we’ve incorporated such an ingredient in our packaging material in a bespoke way,” said Piia Peltola, R&D Manager at Sulapac.
Sulapac now wants to extend its collaboration with other companies, to help them reduce their environmental footprint.
“By this example we encourage
Chanel’s new N°1 de Chanel Cream will use eco- design packaging from sustainable material developed by Sulapac
more companies to choose sustainable packaging materials,” said Suvi Haimi, CEO and Co-founder of Sulapac. “It was fascinating to combine by-products like camellia seed shells and FSC-certifi ed wood chips in this unique packaging material. Now we have profi ciency in also utilising other side streams without compromising the functionality of the fi nal product. It helps us to reduce the environmental footprint even further.”
A centralised platform was created to manage visual services required by IoT and AI devices
LG Business Solutions USA and Canadian software company Userful are introducing an end-to-end, software-defi ned AV-over- IP solution. It aims to optimise display networks for control rooms, digital signage networks, corporate signage and video walls thanks to a combination of Userful’s Visual Networking Platform and LG’s webOS Signage platform. “With the acceleration of new services and digital transformation, there is a clear need for a centralised platform to manage visual services in combination with data, IoT and AI. This way, AV services are easily enabled across the entire organisation. Whether for providing immediate video and data through real-time streaming protocols for control rooms, or managing 8K content across hundreds of displays, integrators and end users, they all can expect a powerful, streamlined display network management experience,” said Gianni Restaino, VP of engineering at LG. The two companies recognised the
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wide digital signage networks to corporate lobby video walls and large conference room displays. Maia Research forecasts that the AV-over-IP market will grow from $3bn today to $51bn in 2027, with 85% growth expected in the corporate, government and education sectors alone. “The industry underestimates the
The AV-over-IP market will grow from $3bn today to $51bn in 2027, with 85% growth expected in the corporate, government and education sectors alone
growth potential of AV-over-IP in 2019 and began developing a custom, lightweight software solution that runs on top of LG’s webOS Signage platform for fl at-panel and direct-view LED displays. This market growth is seen as very
promising, with applications ranging from mission-critical displays and enterprise-
diffi culty of optimising traditional AV products for an IT environment, especially with network distribution challenges and demanding enterprise applications,” said John Marshall, Userful CEO. “The AV industry has historically worked with NAB codecs and AV standards, focusing on the highest-quality AV over cable HDMI technology – the addition of multi-protocol-driven networks is an entirely new challenge. LG being able to integrate such IT protocols into its core fi rmware at the very heart of its media pipeline is beyond impressive. Simply put, this solution simplifi es the job of IT and can reduce installation and maintenance complexity.”
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