Believed to be an inevitable packaging solution for the cosmetic industry, due to its high aesthetic value and easy adaptation to numerous decorative forms, the Seamless Plastic Tube business is a very interesting horizon for packaging industry. Essel Propack has mastered in this area with the rich experience gathered being the pioneer in Europe.

Essel Propack is equipped with sophisticated facilities to manufacture the co-extruded sleeves. These machines have high flexibility with the screw design and other aspects in order to process a huge variety of colours and specifications.

A complete tube extrusion line involves a number of other machines, such as a header, print / lacquering, capping, decoration and packaging machines. Essel Propack optimizes its global presence in order to supply our customers with a perfectly harmonized system for all their production needs.

Co-extrusion ensures automatic diameter control allowing laser measurement to be taken with digital display. This guides the operator to make prompt and precise changes in setting the tube diameter. The process has become an essential tool in guaranteeing quality. Tube sleeves that lie outside the specified tolerance range are rejected automatically. Essel Propack manufactures a wide spectrum of Co-Extruded sleeves ranging from the typical 19mm to 60mm, up to 560 microns and also a length ranging from 80mm to 210mm.

Essel Propack has facilities for Offset Printing, also referred to as offset lithography. In this process the ink is not directly pressed onto the paper, but is distributed from a metal plate to a rubber mat where it is then set onto the paper. The colors used in offset printing are usually Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, represented with the letter K (CMYK). Black colour is represented by K so that it is not misinterpreted as Blue. Different percentages of each of these four colors create virtually every color used in offset printing. There are color matching systems, such as the PANTONE® system, that allows print buyers to see the color. The code for that color can be entered into the offset printer's computer and it will calculate the percentages of each color to be used.
 

Essel Propack has all the required contemporary art facilities for screen printing since its most preferred compared to other processes such as dye sublimation or inkjet printing because of its low cost and ability to print on many types of surfaces. Screen printing, silk screening or serigraphy is a printing technique that creates a sharp edged image using a stencil. A screen print or serigraph is an image created using this technique. Screen Printing is preferred due to the ability to print on diverse background substrate.
 

Essel Propack has modern facilities for this highly ornamental and sophisticated process of a metalic foil, applied to the printing substrate through a heated die -- ‘Foil Stamping’ or ‘Foil Blocking’. Hot Foil stamping is a type of film that is widely used for creating a decorated sheet, which is then applied to plastic, wood, leather and paper. Hot stamping foil is available in wide range of sizes (width and thickness), colors and unique patterns such as logos. Hot Foil Stamping process is a thermal bonding technique that results in the permanent adhesion of stamping foil to the target surface.
 

When complexity of design exceeds the parameters of ‘Offset’ and ‘Silk Screen Printing’, Labeling is used as an alternative. Labelled tubes are also useful when producing small runs for test marketing or foreign language variants.