Product name: GAP G7 Mixed                                          

Client: Inter Parfums, Inc.

Market Served: Fragrance

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV gloss spot coating, reticulated coating, and embossing

Accomplishments: Diamond utilized special coating and finishing techniques to create a carton with visual and tactile impact.

The attractive graphics were achieved by offset printing two PMS colors with UV gloss spot coating and a special, reticulated coating. The reticulated coating process, also known as “chemical embossing”, imparts a raised, thermographic-like textured finish without utilizing specialized board or requiring a separate embossing pass.

An embossed G7 Mixed logo on the front panel completes the presentation.

Product name: McGraw by Tim McGraw                                      

Client: Coty Inc.

Market Served: Fragrance

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with metallic ink, foil stamping, and embossing

Accomplishments: Coty Inc.recently introduced McGraw by Tim McGraw, a new fragrance that captures the spirited personality of the renowned actor and country music star. Diamond was chosen to design and manufacture the cartons for this exciting product launch.

Diamond delivered by creating a package inspired by McGraw’s modern appeal.

The French reverse tuck carton features a combination of foil stamping and embossing that augments the graphic design and creates a unique visual and tactile presentation.

The entire carton was offset printed with UV matte black and UV metallic silver ink in-line with a UV dull, stampable varnish, prior to being embossed with a pebble grain leather pattern.

Subtle accents, including a custom-designed silver embossed guitar pick on the top panel and an embossed, braided rope pattern around the perimeter of the carton, tie the brand to the iconic star.

Product name: Vera Wang Look                                  

Client: Coty Prestige

Market Served: Fragrance

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV gloss spot coating, and embossing

Accomplishments: Vera Wang Look fragrance is described as bold, seductive and captivating. Coty Inc., a leader in global beauty and the world’s largest fragrance company, sought to capture the essence of their prestige brand in the packaging for their new product launch. They turned to Diamond to create a carton as beautiful as the product itself.

Coty’s expertise in developing products that resonate with consumers is enhanced by aligning themselves with celebrities who are involved with the entire creative process. Diamond worked closely with the Coty design team from the beginning, ensuring that the packaging faithfully reflected the iconic fashion designer’s personality and style.

Diamond delivered by creating a package inspired by Vera Wang herself.

The unique carton sports a matte grey background, offset by the vivid orange of the Vera Wang Look logo.

The attractive graphics were achieved by offset printing multiple colors followed by dull stampable varnish and a UV gloss spot coating pattern that represents the brush stroke of the hand-drawn bottle.

An overall embossed pattern and an embossed logo on the front panel add dimension and complex textures to the presentation, reminiscent of the fragrance itself.

Product name: Scent Printing Solutions                                  

Client: Any

Market Served: Any

Packaging Specifications: Micro-encapsulated scented inks and coatings

Accomplishments: A breath of fresh air for promotions. The finishing range offered by rlc | packaging group proved extremely popular at this year’s LuxePack, held at the end of October in Monaco In particular, the joint presentation of the newly developed Scent Printing Solutions was a major crowd-pleaser.

Together with partner companies from the chemical and printing industries, rlc offers solutions that enable companies to use scents to sell their products via print media. Together, the project partners boast skills that include the microencapsulation of fragrances, print media production, and the design and production of scented packaging solutions.

Product name: Gillette Fusion Phenom Gift Sets                             

Client: Procter & Gamble (Gillette Business Unit)

Market Served: Personal Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with metallic ink, embossing, and die cut windows

Accomplishments: As with the launch of the Gillette Fusion Razor and Blades, rlc | packaging group now produces gift boxes for the Gillette Fusion Phenom gift sets with exquisite refinement. The glossy kit comes with a large viewing window and a hinged lid. Detailed relief embossing and metallic effects round out the presentation.

The content is also promising and well worth to be discovered: a system razor and two after-shave products are presented in joint team just like Tiger Woods, Thierry Henry, and Roger Federer.

Product name: Accubraille                              

Client: Pharmacenter

Market Served: Pharmaceutical

Packaging Specifications: In-line braille embossing

Accomplishments: Smart Braille Solution. The Berlin Pharma Center of the rlc | packaging group has stepped up its Braille embossing capabilities. Now that is has installed one of the first Accubraille modules from Bobst, embossing no longer needs to be done in the die cutting stage; if expedient, it can now also be moved down the production line to the folder-gluer. Incorporating the Braille embossing unit in the folding and gluing stage offers numerous advantages. Here cartons are individually processed, in contrast to automated die cutters. Consequently, only one tool is needed instead of one for every “up”. The new rotary process speeds makeready and delivers high-quality, robust Braille dots. Die cutting capacity, flexibility and productivity are also increased. All together, this makes Accubraille a genuinely smart Braille embossing solution.

Product name: got2b magnetik                                

Client: Schwarzkopf & Henkel

Market Served: Hair Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV coating

Accomplishments: Magnetic Attraction. got2b magnetik from Schwarzkopf definitely has the right chemistry. This styling wax contains a pheromone intended to make the user irresistible. And to make this new hairstyle product just as appealing at the point-of-sale, the rlc | packaging group has designed a concave package that broadcasts a clear message: cool and trendy! What really makes the package work is a die cut opening in the middle, in which the ball containing the gel literally floats, blending with the photographic design. This adds yet another innovation to the megahip got2be tend styling range – with a major branding impact, thanks to rlc, which has been the packaging partner of Schwarzkopf & Henkel for many years. rlc is also the right address for sleekly shaped packaging, as the company is currently proving with its rlc | bodyline and rlc | shapeline product lines.

Product name: Pharma DDS – Discrete Dose Slider                        

Client: Stora Enso

Market Served: Pharmaceutical

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with aqueous coating

Accomplishments: A Sure Thing. Together with Finnish board producer Stora Enso, rlc | packaging group spent a considerable amount of time developing an innovative packaging design called Pharma DDS – Discrete Dose Slider. Now the rlc | packaging group has been licensed by Stora Enso to produce it. This package incorporates a novel, highly secure childproofing solution that also makes it suitable for high-dose medications. To pull the slider out of the package, two tabs must be simultaneously pressed into the box. Also after being pulled out, the slider and integrated blister card remain connected to the package. The high convenience factor of this packaging solution increases the reliability of medicinal therapies. Pharma DDS can be produced on standard cartoners.

Product name: Valve Caps              

Client: Audi

Market Served: Automobile

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with metallic ink and UV coating

Accomplishments: Smart Accessories for Tires. You can’t perfect a car that’s already perfect. But you can give it a unique style. A case in point: these four elegantly chrome-plated valve caps esthetically embossed with the Audi logo. Equally elegant is the package, which rlc | packaging group not only produces, but has also improved on, replacing the original two-part design with a single-piece solution. The advantages are obvious: now only one blank needs to be made. It is then turned into a complete folding carton, including an insert and a flap type lid. It also looks great: a special silver effect achieved by combining offset-printed and Metallure silver perfectly underscores the design, which has received an iF award.

Product name: éo!     

Client: Kraft Biscuits

Market Served: Food

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with aqueous coating

Accomplishments: Keeping it round. They add that extra special something to ice cream, puddings, coffee and tea – éo! They are the new wafer-thin chocolate-coated biscuit waffles from Kraft Biscuits, part of the Kraft Foods Group. And éo! is dressed to impress at the P.O.S. thanks to its eye-catching packaging, which reflects the round shape of the biscuits. The main challenge lay in designing this special shape to be suitable for high packaging machine speeds. The product was launched in France in November and other markets are to follow.

Product name: HeltiQ Wrat Weg     

Client: Koninklijke Utermöhlen

Market Served: Health Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV coating

Accomplishments: In a safe hand. HeltiQ Wrat Weg from Dutch company Koninklijke Utermöhlen is a handy, safe and user-friendly product innovation. The packaging, developed by rlc DesignCompetence-Center brandpack, underlines these impressive characteristics. The wart remover plasters and packaging inserts are all easy to remove from the stable packaging. The graphics and finishing complement each other incredibly well and the artwork was designed quickly and reliably using digital mapping. A one-stop-shop solution from rlc | packaging group, which, besides overall packaging design, also handled the production of the folding cartons and packaging inserts.

Product name: Nivea for Men       

Client: Beiersdorf

Market Served: Skin Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV coating and blind embossing

Accomplishments: A fresh new look. Moisturizers freshen up fatigued skin – even men’s skin. The Nivea for Men range had a makeover of its own in September and is now making a whole new impression on store shelves. COPACO member rlc | packaging group was involved in re-styling and helped to revitalize the P.O.S. image of the Beiersdorf brand with the full-area application of double opaque white and silver and gloss effects. The highlight of the new design is blind embossing that gives the packaging a special light effect. rlc produces the packaging in a single die-cutting operation thanks to a new die-cutting and embossing technology.

Product name: Duo Shampoo & Conditioner Caddy        

Client: Redken Laboratories, Inc.

Market Served: Hair Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with metallic silver ink and UV coating

Accomplishments: Redken combines innovation and street-smarts to create the most inspiring and exciting collection of hair care products around. They turned to Diamond to create promotional packaging for their All Soft, Color Extend, Extreme, and Smooth Down shampoo and conditioner sets.

The unique split-level, dual carton design adds dimension and movement to their product lines.

The economical structure is converted as a glued, single piece of paperboard. It incorporates an auto-bottom, which increases efficiencies during the filling operation.

The attractive graphics beautifully complement the bottles, which appear through the die cut windows.

Product name: Biolage thérapies

Client: L'Oreal USA / Matrix

Market Served: Hair Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with aqueous coating

Accomplishments: Biolage thérapies line is a collection of products fusing Matrix science with customized natural ingredients for a rejuvenating salonn experience.  L’Oreal sought to create a Mother’s Day promotion that was a treat for moms and good for Mother Earth.

Diamond delivered by creating packaging with sustainability in mind.

The gifts sets were produced utilizing Kraftpak®, a high-yield, low density paperboard which offers a significant source reduction advantage compared to regular-density paperboard grades.  The natural, unbleached packaging alternative is 100% recyclable and made from a renewable resource.  It is also energy efficient and carbon-friendly on a per-carton basis.

Die cutting on the front panel leverages brand identity by allowing the products to show through.  Perforated tags communicate pricing information at the time of purchase, yet can easily be removed prior to gift giving.

The colorful graphics were achieved by offset printing three special PMS colors and opaque white in-line with aqueous coating.

The cartons were produced using 100% renewable wind energy – a green energy source which provides the greatest environmental benefits.

Product name: Family

Client: Tchibo

Market Served: Food

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with aqueous coating

Accomplishments: Tchibo has massively stepped up its activity in Poland and has begun supplying other Eastern European countries from its base in Warsaw. In doing so, the coffee roaster is relying on the rlc company BSC Drukarnia Opakowan S.A. BSC is providing folding cartons and paper labels from a single source for several of Tchibo's promotional campaigns.

Product name: Hansaplast

Client: Beiersdorf

Market Served: Health Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV spot coating

Accomplishments: For the European relaunch of the Hansaplast family of products, rlc | packaging group produced a high-quality, reclosable lidded folding box that is very easy to open.

In addition, fine UV spot coating underscores the image of this market-leading brand from Beiersdorf, which rlc has been serving for many years. The lidded folding carton developed by rlc is taking the place of the previously-used "Eurohole" box. It permits bandages to be dispensed even faster when needed.

Product name: Perfect Slim Laser / Diadermine Body Perfect

Client: L'Oréal / Schwarzkopf

Market Served: Skin Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with metallic inks, UV coating, cold foil stamping, and embossing

Accomplishments: Cold foiling opens entirely new design possibilities for package finishing. This innovative technology closes the gap between offset printing with metallic inks on the one hand and hot foil stamping on the other. As one of the pilot users in Europe, the rlc | packaging group is now making this innovative technology available to its customers in an inline UV process dubbed rlc | metal effects.

Several large projects of this kind have already been executed on a newly installed nine-color press with double UV coating plus an integrated cold foiling unit, including the launches of "Perfect Slim Laser" from L'Oreal and "Diadermine Body Perfect" from Schwarzkopf.

Cold foiling has propelled both into a new dimension of inline finishing. Extremely precise register enables very intricate structures, gradients and metallic effects in text and design elements. The technology also permits cost-effective implementation of a wide range of silver effects. For example, the "Diadermine" carton combines silver areas with bright white paperboard to create an especially elegant look that consumers associate with extraordinary quality. The L'Oreal carton features an additional inner chamber and stepped blind embossing.

Product name: Nautica My Voyage

Client: Coty Inc.

Market Served: Fragrance

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV matte and gloss coating, foil stamping, and embossing

Accomplishments: Nautica Voyage represents a brand that knows no boundaries. Their distinctive fragrances convey deep aquatic notes and marine florals. Their new My Voyage For Her line extension embodies these same qualities but with a touch of femininity and independence. Diamond’s task was to design a family of packaging for their Eau de Parfum sprays and marine enriched body wash that radiates the brand’s personality and instantly attracts consumers‘ attention in the retail environment.

All of the cartons feature a .018 SBS holographic foilboard complemented by foil stamping and embossing techniques.

The graphics were achieved by offset printing UV black, UV white, and one PMS color in-line with a UV gloss coating over the holographic portion of the carton. A dull stampable varnish was used on the lower white portion of the carton.

Overprinting the holographic foil with transparent blue ink creates a stunning visual effect, reminiscent of the cool, therapeutic waters of the French Atlantic.

The familiar Nautica logo was stamped with pink foil, connecting the product to the prestigious brand. Blue and pink foil stamped accents add further detail.

The bottom portion of the carton was stamped with opaque white foil and embossed with a crosshatch pattern, imparting a unique tactile and visual effect, reminiscent of sandy white beaches.

Product name: Joico VeroChrome

Client: Zotos International

Market Served: Hair Care

Packaging Specifications: Single-color printing with aqueous coating

Accomplishments: The packaging for VeroChrome™ products has always incorporated a natural look, in part to differentiate it from competing products as well as its other product lines. Joico wanted to leverage this identity in any new carton design.

To better understand the customer’s requirements, members of Diamond’s technical team visited Zotos’ fulfillment center to assess the filling equipment and see it run with their current cartons. The inconsistent caliper and texture of the substrate used by another vendor caused the production lines to slow down due to problems related to openability and magazine release.

Diamond solved the problem by designing a carton printed on the reverse side of a special recycled board, made from 100% recycled fibers (minimum 55% PCR). The smooth texture of the satin aqueous-coated board enhances the fine line art reproduction and contributes to problem-free operation on the filling lines.

“Efficiencies increased over 100%,” said Michele Rago, Buyer/Planner at Zotos International. “The people that work on the line are ecstatic about the results from making this change.”

Product name: Giggles Computer Funtime For Baby™

Client: Leveractive

Market Served: Software

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with aqueous coating

Accomplishments: Practice Makes Perfect!

PC software for babies? Not quite. The learning program Giggles Computer Funtime For Baby™
from Leveractive is aimed at parents who want their children to learn to use and enjoy computers
from an early age. The packaging design incorporates entertaining graphics and a kaleidoscope
of colors and finishes to reflect the product's emphasis on both - education and play.

Diamond Packaging took charge of developing the packaging for the U.S. market. Within the international
packaging management network of the Global Packaging Alliance (GPA), the rlc | packaging group
is making sure that babies around Western Europe can also enjoy Giggles in child-friendly packaging.

Product name: Ultimate Lithium

Client: Energizer

Market Served: Electronics

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV gloss coating and silver foil lamination

Accomplishments: More Power At the POS !

Energizer Ultimate Lithium offers the ultimate in durability. To position itself at the top of the market for batteries, Energizer opted for blister cards with an unusual, elegant design featuring vibrant silver effects. Working with the "brandpack" design competence center of the rlc | packaging group, it took little time to develop a high-impact concept with premium effects. Silver foil lamination and high-gloss UV coating
complement the shiny silver batteries to produce a perfectly harmonized effect. Yet another example of how combined production and design know-how deliver more power at the point-of-sale (POS)!

Product name: Derma Genèse

Client: L'Oréal

Market Served: Skin Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV and Iriodin® coating, hot foil stamping, and embossing

Accomplishments: Beauty in a Showcase

The youthful freshness of a flawless complexion: L'Oréal is launching its new Derma Genèse skin care brand at the top end of this market segment. The French cosmetics leader commissioned the specialist rlc | packaging group to design the point-of-sale (POS) materials.

Metallic spot coating on relief embossing and hot foil stamping combined with Iriodin® finishing and a cross-corner window to draw attention to this new product. The multi-layer embossing provides the packaging with a haptic effect and invites consumers to touch - just right for the brand message. However, the packaging and finishing from rlc does more than just tell a story: positioning aids for
the dispenser and an inner chamber for the leaflet showcase the L'Oréal brand to optimal effect.

Product name: Clynol

Client: Schwarzkopf & Henkel

Market Served: Hair Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV coating and cold foil stamping

Accomplishments: High Speed Premium - Cold Foil Investment Meets Market Demand

Investments in cutting-edge production equipment are paving the way for packaging innovations. The rlc | packaging group is using cold foil technology to achieve unprecedented metallic effects to achieve the perfect look for the Clynol hair styling brand from Schwarzkopf & Henkel. Sumptuous colors with intricate metallic detail enhance the innovative technology with which Clynol is being
relaunched on the market.

A key requirement is to make finishes both cost-effective and reproducible on an industrial scale. The most popular trend at present, particularly for cosmetics and cosmeceuticals, is metallic and, above all, silver effects. The rlc | packaging group is focusing on increasing machine length instead of the number of machines.

A good example is the recent installation of a nine-color UV-press with double UV-coating at the Hannover plant of Leunisman GmbH.

This press configuration - the only one of its kind at present - is part of the company's 18 million euro investment program. The installation of a cold foil module enables the press to print highly finished products in a single pass, without additional embossing tools and without register problems during printing and finishing. As a result, large runs are possible with half the capacity and higher quality.

Product name: Pharma SHR

Client: Stora Enso

Market Served: Pharmaceutical

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing aqueous coating

Accomplishments:
The COPACO Group is the first European packaging maker to obtain permission to produce the new Stora Enso Pharma SHR packaging concept from Stora Enso and Bosch. Earlier last year rlc | packaging group's Leunisman plant in Hannover, Germany was accredited for it.

SHR stands for "small hands resistant". It is a childproof packaging solution made of tear-resistant board that is also easy for the elderly to use. The opening mechanism is adapted to the hand size of adults and can be opened merely by applying pressure and sliding it. There is therefore no need to additionally secure the blister cards, wallets or other components inside, which saves materials and work. This makes the concept ideal for high-dosage medications calling for enhanced protection from children.

Stora Enso Pharma SHR meets the European requirements of the ISO 8317 standard and satisfies the criteria for the F=1 classification, the highest in the United States. Stora Enso Pharma SHR is the result of a joint development effort. The Finnish carton maker Stora Enso supplies the designs and the board, while Bosch provides the machines and global services. For production and distribution, Stora Enso is also partnering with the COPACO Group and Bosch GmbH, which provides everything - from complete systems to individual modules - for making Stora Enso Pharma SHR. Stora Enso rigorously licenses production of the packages and use of the machines, which affords significantly better protection against product forgeries.

Product name: OSIS

Client: Schwarzkopf Professional

Market Served: Hair Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing UV coating and PET windows

Accomplishments:
rlc | packaging group is seting a new trend in promotional packaging. For Schwartzkopf Professional's stylish OSIS brand, whose slogan is "Style Never Stands Still", rlc | packaging group developed promotional packaging with an strikingly unusual look.

Featuring a mixture of large-size black-and-white photographic printing and PET windows, the product boxes are designed to exude trendiness. The window cutouts, which follow the shape of the product, are the icing on the packaging cake. This COPACO member has been comissioned by Schwarzkopf & Henkel to develop and provide full service for the promotional packages for several brands.

Henkel has also pre-approved GPA member Diamond Packaging to produce these packages for the U.S. market, without any supplier auditing. This is an excellent example of GPA's ability to deliver localized service, identical product specifications and consistent brand recognition, resulting in unparalleled global packaging support.

Product name: Seborin

Client: Schwarzkopf

Market Served: Hair Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV and Iriodin® coating

Accomplishments:
rlc | packaging group recently developed a "cosmeceutical" package for Schwarzkopf & Henkel's Seborin, a tonic designed to prevent hair loss. This presented an ideal opportunity for the COPACO member to put its finishing competence to work.

rlc | packaging group combined a classically-glued folding carton with a subdued coating effect. Eight UV colors plus UV coating were laid down on top of a Iriodin® coating, all inline. It was just recently that rlc | packaging group extended its machine fleet by adding a second eight-color press with UV drying and double coating units. This increased the company's flexibility for handling eight-color jobs with different coatings; the Seborin folding carton is an excellent example.

Product name: MetoHexal Succ

Client: Hexal

Market Served: Pharmaceutical

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV coating, foil stamping, and embossing

Accomplishments:
Packages for prescription drugs are increasingly being subjected to a visual facelift. The Rob. Leunis & Chapman Group (rlc) frames MetoHexal Succ, a betablocker from Hexal, in silver foil and cut-relief embossing. Cut-relief embossing delivers sharp edges. A special diecutting tool is required to avoid the rounded edges typical of most embossing. Each package is specially inspected inline to make sure the silver foil is glued on correctly. The rlc group makes 10 millions of these cartons a year for Salutas Pharma GmbH, Hexal's contract packager.

Product name: Espumisan L

Client: Berlin Chemie

Market Served: Health Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with cold foil stamping

Accomplishments:
Fine graphic details with subdued metallic effects - Rob. Leunis & Chapman Group (rlc) has achieved this unusual look in the package for Espumisan L. This OTC product from Berlin Chemie features a combination of silver foil and gentle color gradients. The folding carton is one of various packaging projects that take advantage of the design possibilities of cold foiling. Because the foil is applied inline like ink, it can be enhanced with intricate metallic effects in just a single pass through the press, without any registration problems. The rlc group is one of Europe's first companies to install an inline cold foiling unit.

Product name: Activ

Client: Schwarzkopf

Market Served: Hair Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV gloss coating on metallized board

Accomplishments:
"Active helps! Don't be afraid of hair loss". ACTIV Dr. Hoting from Schwarzkopf promises help for preventing it.

This new system for treating hair loss not caused by illness is appearing at the point-of-sale in friendly light blue (for men) and pink (for women) packaging - trendy without overdoing it. Packaging specialist Rob. Leunis & Chapman Group (rlc) achieved the luminous colors with metallized board, UV spot colors and high gloss UV coating.
A perfect stage for the message "ACTIV Dr. Hoting is innovative and effecitve."

Product name: Nivea Visage Oxygene Power        

Client: Beiersdorf

Market Served: Cosmetics

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV coating

Accomplishments:
With its competence center dubbed "Brandpack - the Packaging Architects", the Rob. Leunis & Chapman Group (rlc), is blazing new trails in package development. Brandpack brings together four competencies that are otherwise spread out over the development process: graphic design, materials, structural design, and finishing. As a result, packaging know-how flows directly into the design development process - which permits faster implementation of packaging ideas. For example, Nivea Visage Oxygene Power from BDF Beiersdorf.

The assignment was to position this product brand as an innovation. The packaging therefore had to be different from conventional folding cartons, highlight the theme of "water" and "oxygen", and provide a glimpse of the product. Thanks to brandpack, the rlc packaging group illustrated its production and materials expertise right from the initial briefing phase. The very first prototype - a highly
finished, elegantly curved PET sleeve with inlay and opening tap made of board - perfectly met the briefing requirements. With only a few minor improvements, the package was ready for mass production.

"The solution gave us an ideal time to market, with right-on-the-button impact for the first moment of truth, " said Sandra Gretschel, Marketing, Beiersdorf AG, Germany. "We were able to significantly accelerate development by bundling the required services like this."

Product name: Gillette Fusion

Client: Procter & Gamble

Market Served: Personal Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color with UV coating, foil stamping, and blind embossing

Accomplishments:
Last September Gillette launched its Fusion product line with a harmonized, dynamic presentation. The company’s strategically coordinated worldwide offensive was backed by the international Global Packaging Alliance (GPA), which is ideally positioned to ensure cost-optimized implementation of global packaging projects.

The Rob. Leunis & Chapman Group (rlc), a proven Gillette packaging partner, took care of central packaging management for the entire European product launch. The rlc group, which combines organizational competence with devotion to quality, used premium-finished materials, elegant designs and attractive shapes to effectively communicate the Fusion brand image in all packaging for this product range. The upmarket outfit: up to eight colors plus UV gloss coating on paperboard and PET, supplemented in some cases by blind embossing and silver hot foil stamping.

Product name: OSIS

Client: Schwarzkopf Professional

Market Served: Hair Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV coating

Accomplishments:
These exceptionally designed pots containing the OSIS styling products from Schwarzkopf Professional are much too attractive to be hidden away. See-through folding PET cartons created by Rob. Leunis & Chapman Group (rlc) effectively show them off. A series of black-and-white photographs are printed on the box to stress the theme of style, while letting the aesthetically-shaped, brightly colored pot inside unfold its full impact. The rlc group has injected creative styling into the package and intelligently put the OSIS motto into practice with a transparent look: “The art of contradiction – show that you have more than one side! “

Product name: Brilliantwhite™ Professional Smile Tooth Whitening System

Client: Livingston-Short Hills Dental Associates, Inc.

Market Served: Oral Care

Packaging Specifications: Single color printing with aqueous pearl coating, UV gloss coating, and foil stamping

Accomplishments:
Brilliantwhite™ is a new, radical breakthrough in dental research and development, formulated to achieve improved oral health and an unprecedented degree of whiteness. Livingston-Short Hills Dental Associates, Inc, turned to Diamond Packaging to create a family of cartons that conveyed the product’s message of delivering a luminous, radiant smile.

Diamond delivered by utilizing structural and graphic techniques to create cartons that both functionally and stylistically surpasses any other similar products on the market.

The Step 1 (ActiGel™) and Step 2 (ActiWhite™) product cartons were designed with notch locks on the bottom closures due to weight considerations. The kit carton was designed with a reinforced auto bottom, and features a glued inner cell to keep all three products separated.

Invercote G paperboard was selected as it is designed for products and prestige packaging where an exceptional aesthetic result is desired. The printing side of Invercote G is triple coated and finished to a matte level, resulting in a very bright white printing surface perfect for conveying the image of the product

The subtle graphics were achieved by printing a single color (PMS# 286) with a special effects pigmented aqueous pearl coating. The blue-pigmented “Interference Coating” enhances the color of the ink and adds color shifting properties. The cartons were overcoated with stamp-able UV gloss coating, and then hot stamped with silver foil to enhance the overall graphic presentation.

The combination of ink, coating, and stamping perfectly conveyed the product’s message of delivering a luminous, radiant smile.

Product name: Stetson Gift Set

Client: Coty Inc.

Market Served: Fragrance

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with litho gold metallic, UV gloss coating, foil stamping, and embossing

Accomplishments: Stetson is a true original. A legendary fragrance reminiscent of the American West. Coty Inc., the world’s leading fragrance company, aimed to create a holiday promotion that captured the spirit of the brand – rugged masculinity, originality and independence. They turned to Diamond Packaging to create a gift set carton as bold and original as the product.

Diamond delivered by utilizing special techniques to elevate a standard tuck carton to an unprecedented level.

The French straight tuck carton features a combination of foil stamping and embossing that serves to augment the subtle graphic design. The entire front panel was stamped with gold foil, prior to printing and embossing. The embossed paisley pattern and Stetson logo above the top of the die cut window combine with a micro-embossed pattern around the perimeter of the carton to create a unique visual and tactile presentation, suggestive of the rugged individualism of the American West.

Die cutting on the front panel retains the rigidity of the carton and also leverages brand identity by allowing the products to show through. Perforated tags communicate pricing information at the time of purchase, yet can easily be removed prior to gift giving.

The stunning graphics were achieved by offset printing UV black, one PMS color, and UV metallic gold ink in-line with UV gloss coating. Metallic ink was printed over foil to complement the micro-embossed pattern around the perimeter of the carton.

Product name: Diamondessence™ Combination Packaging      

Client: Any

Market Served: Any

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing (stochastic screening) with UV gloss coating, foil stamping, and embossing

Accomplishments: Packaging is branding. Innovations in structures and substrates offer marketers a number of competitive advantages, including perceived value, brand differentiation, and increased shelf prominence.

Plastic has added a whole new dimension to packaging, creating a visible link between the packaging and the product itself. It is this connection that helps builds brand loyalty over time.

Diamond has embraced this trend by investing in new state-of-the-art windowing equipment to deliver paperboard, plastic or combination packaging that reveals the beauty of what’s inside. Packaging that inspires. Packaging that sells.

Diamond set out to create a combination package that truly sets itself apart from the competition. The paperboard and plastic structure delivers maximum product visibility and package integrity, while dramatically showcasing the diamond as if it floats in mid-air. To achieve even greater shelf impact, techniques such as hot foil stamping, embossing, and specialty coating were also employed.

Product name: Bulk Up Counter Display      

Client: Redken Laboratories, Inc.

Market Served: Stationery

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing (stochastic screening) with UV matte varnishulti-color printing with spot coating and embossing

Accomplishments: Redken Laboratories is built on the foundation of beauty powered by science. Their patented protein technologies are the basis for all of their hair care and styling products, including their new Redken for Men Bulk Up Thickening Spray. They turned to Diamond Packaging to create a counter display that embodies the bold, modern spirit of the brand.

Diamond created a display that instantly draws consumers’ attention. The geometrically-inspired design combines a trapezoid shape with straight lines to convey a sense of dynamic energy. The inverted weight of the main panel contributes by visually communicating the sense of “bulking up”.

The fifth-panel structure integrates with the base on which the spray bottle is displayed, encouraging consumers to touch and hold the product. The stunning graphics, which were achieved by offset printing four-color process inks and one special color ink in-line with UV matte varnish, perfectly complements the color of the spray bottle.

Diamond also employed frequency modulated (FM) screening to deliver near photographic fidelity from an offset printing process. FM screening is unique in that it varies the number of dots used, as opposed to amplitude modulated (AM) screening, which varies the size of the dot. The 20-micron FM dot eliminates all issues related to screen angles, resulting in smoother vignettes and softer color-to-color transitions not possible with traditional four-color process printing.

Product name: Scented Ink       

Client: Montblanc

Market Served: Stationery

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with spot coating and embossing

Accomplishments: Rob. Leunis & Chapman Group (rlc) is packaging this year's Christmas greetings from the top maker of writing utensils. Montblanc is having the COPACO member bring its inks alive in a seasonal carton with the accustomed stylishness.

The foil-laminated soft-touch surface provides a perfect stage for the spot-coated relief embossing. Snow crystals, modeled after the Montblanc trademark, and embossed snowflakes the size of a needle's eye practically beg you to run your finger over them.

A very effective job, requiring a combination of different techniques. Rob. Leunis & Chapman Group (rlc), which Montblanc already employed for other premium packaging projects, succeeded in implementing this ambitious concept in a minimum of time.

Product name: Diadermine Global Action 9       

Client: Schwarzkopf & Henkel

Market Served: Cosmetics

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV-printed flexographic silver

Accomplishments: Metallic effects are state-of-the-art. They can be achieved by various means: hot foil stamping, cold foiling, lamination and metalization of cartons, etc. For Diadermine, Rob. Leunis & Chapman Group (rlc) created a memorable copper sparkle with UV-printed flexographic silver.

Product name: Nivea for Men Energy        

Client: Beiersdorf

Market Served: Cosmetics

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV matte and gloss coating, debossing, and rigid windowing

Accomplishments: Transparency is just the thing for beauty and cosmetic products.

Rob. Leunis & Chapman Group (rlc) has once again demonstrated its competence by creating a POS package for men's cosmetics. Elegant matte / gloss effects in silver and blue combine with blind embossing to create an outstanding tactile experience. Panoramic PET windows and a popup sign put the package right in consumers' line of sight at the POS.

This solution made it to the final round for the 2006 Pro Carton ECMA awards in the category beauty & cosmetics.

Product name: SoColor Mochas        

Client: L'Oreal USA / Matrix

Market Served: Hair Care

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing (stochastic screening) with UV gloss coating

Accomplishments: L'Oreal USA / Matrix created the season's spiciest hues with the introduction of its new SoColor Mocha series. Combining both warm and cool tones to create a harmony of shades ranging from chocolate browns to latte blondes, this line extension gives beautiful dimension to hair while providing smooth, rich color. They turned to Diamond Packaging to create a package that communicated color with confidence.

SoColor is the leading professional color brand in the United States and is used in thousands of salons nationwide. With SoColor, there's no guesswork - just exceptional color results. The packaging needed to convey this message and faithfully reproduce the color shades represented on the carton.

Diamond designed a carton where form follows function. The economical structure is converted as a glued, single piece with an integrated handle. The handle enhances consumer interaction and identifies the package as a comprehensive kit containing everything needed for creating stunning color effects.

Faithful reproduction of the five new shades on the carton required accuracy and repeatability. Diamond’s new Heidelberg offset press is equipped with advanced quality systems, including spectrophotometry, to ensure accurate color control throughout the press run. Salon professionals can have confidence that the color represented on the carton will match the hair color.

Diamond also employed frequency modulated (FM) screening to deliver near photographic fidelity from an offset printing process. FM screening is unique in that it varies the number of dots used, as opposed to amplitude modulated (AM) screening, which varies the size of the dot. The 20-micron FM dot eliminates all issues related to screen angles, resulting in smoother vignettes and softer color-to-color transitions not possible with traditional four-color process printing.

Product name: Diadermin Novalift        

Client: Schwarzkopf & Henkel

Market Served: Cosmetics

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV spot coating, hot foil stamping, and silver embossing

Accomplishments: Diadermin Novalift provides a brilliant complexion - and comes in a brilliant package from Rob. Leunis & Chapman Gruppe (rlc), which swayed the Duesseldorf-based cosmetics giant Schwarzkopf & Henkel with a wide range of body care and cosmetics packages it has created, in addition to promotional packaging for brands including Fa and Gliss Kur. Now the customer is launching Novalift across Europe: an anti-aging face cream that reduces wrinkles and ensures good looks. The glued folding carton sports a gracefully curved window without back-gluing, and is visually enhanced with UV spot coating. The matte white surface also features shiny silver embossing and hot foil stamping for metallic effects.

Product name: GlobeTrotter GT MA        

Client: T-Mobile

Market Served: Telecommunications

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV matte coating and embossing

Accomplishments: A square white carton embossed with the typical square digits of T-Mobile, Germany's leading provider of mobile telephone services. What could this package possibly hold? All you have to do is slide the outer carton to the left and right, and - behold! - the GlobeTrotter GT MAX card for laptops is revealed. An inlay holds the card, which the company offers to enable high-speed wireless Internet access. This clever packaging idea is the brainchild of Rob. Leunis & Chapman Gruppe. Before this, T-Mobile used a rather dull DVD cover made of PET as the outer packaging for the data cards. Now, thanks to the carton, the product has premium character: elegant white cartons with reduced graphics. Stylistic and CI-consistent. To cap it off, a gag is built in: a fold-out prop is die cut into the back so the carton can be stood up like a picture frame.

Product name: Will You Look at That! COPACO Project Puts Pictures in Windows        

Client: Any

Market Served: Any

Packaging Specifications: Folding cartons incorporating printed windows

Accomplishments: A joint project by two COPACO companies is creating new effects for point-of-sale (POS). Rob. Leunis & Chapman Gruppe (rlc) has teamed up with pharmaceutical and label specialist Faller to develop a new premium packaging technique: printed windows!
Windows naturally remain windows, but the use of semi-transparent designs or full-tone text elements opens up new possibilities for presenting brands and products.

To accomplish this, windows are printed roller-to-roller using a UV flexographic process that is more commonly employed to produce self-adhesive labels. The key to positioning the motifs: the die-cutting machine scans the register and executes precise cuts, thus meeting the prerequisites for accurate gluing.

The advantages of strategic collaboration within the COPACO Group come into plain view in connection with projects that, like this one, break new ground. It was first launched by rlc, which decided to proactively address requests from customers for new package window effects. In this case, the printing expertise required to technically implement them was contributed by Faller.

Product name: Giggles

Client: Leveractive, LLC

Market Served: Software

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing (stochastic screening) with aqueous coating

Accomplishments: The Giggles Computer Funtime For Baby™ Software Series was created for parents as a method to introduce their babies to computers in an entertaining, playful, fun, and educational way. The packaging needed to capture the essence of this exciting product launch by introducing playful graphics with a multitude of colors.

Diamond delivered by incorporating its Diamond TruCOLOR™ color system in the production of the Giggles Computer Funtime For Baby™ CD gift sets and sleeves.

The Diamond TruCOLOR™ color system is a proprietary method of color control, color monitoring and color matching, offering unparalleled quality and economic benefits compared to traditional four-color process printing. The Diamond TruCOLOR™ color system uses just six colors to accurately and optimally reproduce over 1000 colors, while delivering near-photographic fidelity from an offset printing process. The large color gamut of the Diamond TruCOLOR™ color system is an efficient and economical method to reproduce a variety of vibrant and subtle colors without expensive plate changes.

The Diamond TruCOLOR™ color system also incorporates frequency modulated (FM) screening. FM screening is unique in that it varies the number of dots used, as opposed to amplitude modulated (AM) screening, which varies the size of the dot. The 20-micron FM dot eliminates all issues related to screen angles, resulting in smoother vignettes and softer color-to-color transitions not possible with traditional four-color process printing.

Diamond Contract Manufacturing (DCM), a division of Diamond Packaging, provided all of the fulfillment, including packing cartons with components, and distributing orders to retail locations and direct customers.

Product name: Shania by Stetson

Client: Coty Inc.

Market Served: Fragrance

Packaging Specifications: Multicolor printing (stochastic screening) with litho gold metallic, flexo gold metallic, aqueous matte pearlescent coating, foil stamping, and embossing

Accomplishments: Diamond employed special graphic techniques for the gift set packaging, elevating a standard tuck carton to an unprecedented level. The cartons feature .024 SBS paperboard complemented by embossing and gold foil accents around the window and for the stars, which are prominently displayed on the carton. The gold stars, which are meant to represent studs, connect the package to both the country-western image of Shania Twain and to the Stetson brand.

The vibrant pink fragrance cartons feature two hits of pink, special flexo gold ink, and pearlized matte aqueous coating. Hot foil stamping and embossing further enhance the graphics. Flexo gold ink was applied in-line on Diamond’s new Heidelberg offset press equipped with a Flexokit chambered blade coating system. The Flexokit is optimized for metallic and pearl luster coatings, delivering denser coverage, with greater uniformity.

Diamond utilized frequency modulated (FM) screening to deliver near photographic fidelity from an offset printing process. FM screening is unique in that it varies the number of dots used, as opposed to amplitude modulated (AM) screening, which varies the size of the dot. The 20-micron FM dot eliminated all issues related to screen angles, resulting in smoother vignettes and softer color-to-color transitions not possible with traditional four-color process printing.

The result is a packaging design that delivers impact at the retail environment, and asserts a modern, spirited image for the brand.

Product name: Travel First-Aid Kit

Client: Hexal

Market Served: Pharmaceuticals

Accomplishments: Tailored services are essential where pharmaceutical packaging is concerned.
At its pharmaceutical center the rob. leunis & chapman group ( rlc ) implements customized solutions that cut costs. There are many successful examples of its achievements. For example rlc fills the travel first-aid kit from Hexal with all required
components: basic products that should never be missed when you are on the road.

The relevant safety standards are met by faithfully documenting the components that go into each lot produced. rlc is also handling complete packaging of the product "Vitabetics" recently launched by Lichtwer Pharma. And it has successfully optimized processes for Berlin Chemie: exactly the same numbers of inserts and folding cartons are produced in seperate lines in response to customers order, pratically reducing stocks to zero.

Product name: Eucerin Q10 Anti-Age Promotional Set

Client: Beiersdorf

Market Served: Body care & cosmetic

Accomplishments: A three-part anti-wrinkle set from Eucerin enables medical-standard care for sensitive facial skin. It comes in a see-through promotional package from rob. leunis & chapman group ( rlc ).
Small face care accessories are attractively arrayed in the PET insert. In this full-service project covering everything from package development across printing to packing the products, rlc made sure that the customer received top value for the money. Every step of the process was checked to ensure its compatiblity with subsequent operations. From the outset, the packaging managers from rlc endeavored to create a package that would maximize efficiency in the packaging line.

Product name: Pobeda Cappuccino and Irish Cream Truffles

Client: Pobeda Confectionary ( RUS )

Market Served: Confectionary

Packaging Specifications: Multicolor printing with UV coating, foil stamping, and embossing

Accomplishments: Eastern Europeans adore the delicious high-quality pralines from Probeda Confectionary, Russia's third-largest chocolate producer. The company owes much of its success to its strategy of offering its products in packages that transmit Western European charm.
The premium packaging for the fine Pobeda cappuccino and Irish cream truffles sold in Russia, Belorus and Ukraine was created by rob. leunis & chapman group and its Polish subsidiary BSC. The look and feel of this folding carton communicate the product's high quality as wished. To achieve this effect rlc combined various printing, relief and gold-foil embossing and various UV coatings.

Product name: S.Oliver Sports Fragrance Male & Female

Client: Mäurer & Wirtz

Market Served: Cosmetics

Packaging Specifications: Multi-color printing with UV coating

Accomplishments: Fresh scents and clear designs characterize the S.Oliver "Sports Fragrances Male & Female" line.
So clearity is also a must for the packaging. A gift set comes in a a see-through PET packaging from rob. leunis & chapman group ( rlc ). Shower gel, each de toilette and deodorant are securely held in a silver coated board insert. Printed on both sides in five colors with UV ink, the package reflects the products' signature colors: sunny yellow for the ladies and cool blue for the gentlemen. RLC is also handling the work of packaging and filling the three-part sets, thus rounding out the packaging groups' full service with packaging mangement.