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DuPont™ Surlyn® lends the power of water to the new Hugo Boss fragrance

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PIP-Luxepack-2008-03 Photo: DuPont The stopper for the rugged, square-shaped bottle containing the male  fragrance ‘Boss Pure’ from Hugo Boss is moulded from DuPont™ Surlyn PC2000.

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DuPont™ Surlyn® lends the power of water to the new Hugo Boss fragrance Monaco, October 2008. Men who use “Boss Pure” apply themselves with a woody aquatic fragrance inspired by the crash and thunder of falling water. The bottle represents a modern twist on the urban water wall. It has a rugged square shape with flat surfaces and pronounced edges, uniting the transparency of glass with the strength of metal. The glass bottle is crowned with a stopper made from DuPont™ Surlyn® PC2000 resin. This DuPont polymer provides the familiar benefits of crystalline transparency, which at second glance reveals a silvery base that in no way compromises the planarity of this very thick item. “Besides its good chemical resistance to perfume, Surlyn® guarantees the perceived quality over the course of time and permanently safeguards brand integrity,” adds Michel Decodts, project manager at DuPont Packaging & Industrial Products. “The droplets that settle on the stopper when the perfume is sprayed produce neither finger marks nor streaking on the stopper material, unlike other transparent resins.” The solid stopper is injection-moulded in one operation by Auriplast (Qualipac Group), based in Aurillac, France. “The solution we offered was to assemble the stopper by clipping the silver-coated ABS base onto the Surlyn® piece," explains Eric Lafargue at Qualipac. “Since no adhesive is used, this method prevents any traces that would negatively impact the transparency of the assembly.” Qualipac also succeeded in controlling the tolerances very precisely despite the different mechanical properties of the two elements, and also achieved a perfect colour match between the metallic parts of the bottle and the stopper.

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DuPont Cosmetic Solutions brings DuPont’s "Miracles of Science" to the world of beauty and personal care by expanding the possibilities of its comprehensive range of materials and technologies, and by fostering partnerships focused on technology and consumer insight. Its primary aim is to dev elop new and differentiated cosmetic solutions that meet brand owners’ and designers’ needs for innovation while enhancing the consumer experience and bring more fun, emotion and well-being. DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers is a world-class manufacturer of highperformance resins and films for a variety of packaging and industrial applications. Its best known ethylene copolymer products include Surlyn® resins for packaging and industrial applications, Bynel® coextrudable adhesives, Selar® PA amorphous polyamide barrier resins, Nucrel® acid copolymers, Elvax® EVA copolymers, Elvaloy®, Elvaloy AC® , Entira™ and Fusabond® modifiers. DuPont is a science-based products and services company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 70 countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture and food, building and construction, communications, and transportation.

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PIP-Luxepack-2008-03 Editorial Contact: Horst Ulrich Reimer Tel.: ++49 (0) 61 02/18-1297 Fax: ++49 (0) 61 02/18-1318 [email protected]

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