Laminated tubes offer products a competitive edge in the market and are used across the globe for packaging in personal care, food, pharma and industrial applications. The oral care industry by itself contributes to almost 70% of the total production of laminated tubes, while an increasing number of them are being used in the cosmetics sector.

With excellent barrier properties, laminated tubes are a cost effective solution to help increase a product’s shelf life. Their smooth, flexible and soft exteriors deliver excellent sealability and enable high filling line speed during the packaging process. Their features include shoulder barriers for superior flavor and moisture retention, pin-hole orifices for low viscosity products and nozzle seals with an option of hot foil stamping. Essel also produces tamper evident closures for protection of products. Tube dispensing nozzles or applicators can be further customized on request.

Laminated tubes allow for consistent quality and performance reliability. They are adaptable to a wide range of caps, i.e. Fez / Flower pot, Stand-up, Flip-top and custom designed. Laminated Tubes can be customized into different varieties of coloured tubes and transparent tubes with Polyester barrier for products with contact clarity.

At Essel, we use cutting-edge technologies to ensure stronger fusion between the shoulder and body. Our world class LTP printing technology ensures superior resistance to print bleed, allowing up to 6 colours plus a varnish overcoat with a choice of full or spot varnish. Our ultra-modern R&D cell is equipped with the most sophisticated equipment for testing and new product development. The state-of-the-art, in-house facilities for R&D and graphic design are made available for development & testing requirements.

This is literally the category EPL cuts its teeth in. And today, one in every three toothpaste tubes sold globally, is made by us. We are preferred global partners to Oral Care giants like Colgate Palmolive, P&G, Unilever and GSK. We offer them a range of exclusive solutions with high-quality barrier coatings that help fluids remain fresh and effective for longer. And our relationship is often joined at the hip through our ‘Go and Grow’ program, where we invest in dedicated packaging facilities attached to customer's factories. Many leading oral care brands rely solely on EPL's expertise to provide them extended shelf life and enhanced visibility.

Our standard laminates are composite materials made from LLDPE that form the core barrier of the tube body. They help keep contents fresh and safe with multiple layers of foil.

Laminates also help a product catch the customer’s eye from the shelf, with their various available finishes and design possibilities.

Essel manufactures special caps and closures for products other than tubes, such as closures for hair care and personal care product bottles. Our unique innovations have added a great amount of ease to the delivery of products. The company provides comprehensive one-stop solutions right from concept development and product design to the final product assembly.

This is an exciting category with tremendous potential for EPL. The fast-changing demands of brands in this market mean that we are constantly exploring new ideas in decoration, structure and chemical resistance. EPL’s iShine™ Cosmetics Packaging Range offers world-class, premium laminated tube solutions that provide glamour and style to cosmetic brands. Solutions include High Definition, 3D, Rolux, Matt Gloss, Laser, Diamond and Aroma.

Packaging plays a very big role in brand preference in this category; so EPL works with a variety of brands, flexibly exploring new ways to partner and value add. Through our concept-to-tube initiatives, we are able to seamlessly handhold smaller brands through the packaging process. And as the world leaders in digital printing, we offer exciting opportunities for personalization, allowing brands to directly talk with their consumers.

The biotech, healthcare and pharma industries are rapidly evolving in sophistication and complexity. Pharma poses significant technical challenges, including clean-room readiness, barrier properties, dosage and application. Our team of experts are constantly creating new ways to dispense pharma products using laminated tubes, often changing value equations strongly in the process. We are fully equipped to produce 100% sterile tubes, and produce tubes that are used in the packaging of ointments and lotions for a variety of medical applications With large allocations to R&D, we have been delivering patient-focused drug delivery solutions.

In particular, during the COVID pandemic, we have helped hundreds of clients globally to create safe & easy sanitizing products for their consumers globally, and we continue to explore newer ideas to democratize health everywhere.

EPL is at the forefront of helping food & dairy brands move from rigid plastics or ABL to laminated tubes, saving both material and cost, and contributing to sustainability. In particular, we have created great value applications for viscous products like sauces, pastes, ketchup and honey, that combine convenience, economy and controlled dosage. Our products withstand temperatures up to 90℃. We believe that this category offers us significant opportunity, and we are speeding up our innovation efforts to create new ideas for growth.

EPL's Home Care category offers superior packaging to store industrial, cleaning and hygiene-related products. We offer solutions that sustain the freshness and effectiveness of powerful chemicals. Whether for cleaning products, lubricants, pesticides or adhesives, consumers expect efficient results. Our expertise in high-performance chemicals and knowledge of consumer products fulfil this need. Our range of tube structures perform to create high resistance to oil and grease and other aggressive, active ingredients. Our solutions can be customized with unique dispensation system like long nozzle and snap-off head.

These seamless plastic tubes represent an exciting frontier in our industry, especially for the cosmetics industry, enabling superb aesthetics value and easy adaptability to several decorative forms. EPL has been innovating furiously on extruded tubes to several sectors, bolstered by our acquisition of Arista Tubes, a leading manufacturer in the United Kingdom.

These tubes are used to pack high-end, low-volume products across industries. Offering enhanced shelf and superior brand salience on shelf, they are an attractive and durable packaging solution for a variety of product lines. From custom coloured materials to high-end decoration techniques, EPL offers solutions that can be customized to any kind of product or market.

EPL offers options of structure, ranging from Monolayer ( LLDPE, LDPE, MDPE and HDPE) to Multilayer (co-extruded 2 layer sleeve, co-extruded 5 layer LLDPE sleeve with monolayer shoulder and co-extruded 5 layer HDPE sleeve with monolayer shoulder). Decorations can be made available in up to 8 colours offset (line & text, vignettes and illustrations), up to 6 colours silkscreen and metallic & pearlescent inks.

Labelling options include full wrap, front & back, label sets and patch labels; as well as multi-layer and tactile labels. Extruded tubes are manufactured, printed and capped in-line. Special decorations such as silk screen printing, foil blocking and labelling are secondary processes.