The Complete Material Selection Guide for Cosmetic and Pharmaceutical Tube Manufacturers

The Complete Material Selection Guide for Cosmetic and Pharmaceutical Tube Manufacturers A contract pharmaceutical manufacturer in Malaysia placed a 12-month standing order for a topical antifungal cream — 4 million units per year. The buyer’s specification had one line most suppliers glossed over: “Packaging must maintain API stability for 36 months under ICH Q1A conditions.” The manufacturer who won the contract produced in ABL. The two competitors who lost were running PE lines. The material cost difference was USD 0.09 per tube. The contract value difference was USD 1.4 million per year. Material selection in tube manufacturing is rarely about the tube itself. It is about what the tube enables — or […]