We combine product design, engineering and science to create core differentiating technologies, leveraged across a variety of end markets. For over 75 years, we have been innovating products and solutions to improve the daily lives of millions of people around the globe.
At Aptar, our approach to innovation is guided by our purpose: to transform ideas into solutions that improve everyday life for millions of people around the world. Operating across our Beauty, Closures and Pharma segments, we innovate with intent, leveraging deep consumer insights and market intelligence to develop solutions that meet consumer demands.
Our sustainable product solutions span the beauty, personal and home care, pharmaceutical and food and beverage markets, aiming to reduce our environmental impact, especially with regard to recycling, reducing plastic waste, and promoting a more circular plastics economy.
Additionally, we innovate alongside our customers, suppliers, industry coalitions and nonprofits to enable progress toward their sustainability goals – and better outcomes for people and the planet. This means designing product solutions with sustainability in mind, striving to create solutions that are more recyclable, reusable and eliminating unnecessary packaging components. This also means creating processes that use less energy, use renewable energy and minimize the waste disposed in landfills.
Aptar Pharma is a world leader in nasal drug delivery. We specialize in reformulating existing drugs into nasally administered sprays or powders, offering a faster and less risky development process compared to new drug development. This approach, known as drug repositioning, or drug repurposing can extend the life of mature drugs and has benefits such as rapid onset of action, reduced side effects and non-invasive administration. Aptar Pharma’s nasal drug delivery systems deliver precise dosing and are easy to use.
We specialize at thinking “Inside the Box” to improve the perception of our brand partners and minimize the environmental impact of our solutions. All of our e-commerce capable solutions* are ISTA-6 Amazon certified through on-site testing.
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*Ista-6 Overbox Testing Compliant. Test results may vary based on container shape, container size and sample formula.
Aptar Digital Health is enhancing the patient experiences through a comprehensive suite of digital health solutions, including Software-as-a-Medical-Device, connected devices, patient services and disease management platforms. Our Digital Health division operates across multiple therapeutic areas and leverages Aptar’s global footprint to deliver value-added products and services to millions of patients worldwide.
We leverage the expertise of the world to innovate and provide collaborative experiences for customers and partners to help them bring their products to life.
Aptar’s InVision Lab in Rueil-Malmaison, France showcases our approach to the design, engineering and protection technologies for some of our greatest product innovations. This collaborative space is where high tech and human touch meet to create a memorable experience with our customers and partners.
Accelerate your speed to market with Aptar Beauty’s Go2Lab. We partner with you from design to delivery to help you bring your packaging from concept to development faster through our in-house services such as 3-D printing, Rapid Molding & Prototyping, and full lab services.
Innovation plays a critical role in China’s overall modern development. The Design Innovation Institute Shanghai (DIIS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to collaborative innovation, bringing together experts across multiple industries and disciplines to create an innovation ecosystem. Aptar is part of this innovative infrastructure and works with this organization to access the expertise of the world and create greater customer and partner intimacy.
Aptar partners with startups and top universities around the world – across 6 continents – leveraging their knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit to improve our products and solutions.
Aptar Pharma’s APF FuturityTM is the first completely recyclable nasal spray pump for preservative free applications on the market. This solution answers the growing need for more recyclable drug product packaging solutions. It uses only plastic materials and contains no metal parts, allowing for a CO2 emission savings of up to 37%*. Equally important, the change in design does not reduce the performance or microbiological integrity of the product, delivering precise and consistent doses of liquid preservative free formulation every time.
*APF Futurity™ compared to conventional APF solution. Based on a simplified LCA of Raw Materials only, using avoided burden approach. Calculated with Aptar Eco-design tool, developed in collaboration with Sphera. No third-party review has been performed.
Color Code PCR is the first-to-market fragrance pump available in up to 67% Post-Consumer Recycled Resin (PCR) content. Our product offers a chic design and wide range of color options for brand differentiation. The use of recycled material highlights Aptar’s commitment to more sustainable packaging.
Aptar Pharma played a pivotal role in developing a nasal spray delivery device for NARCAN®, an antidote for opioid overdose that can easily be administered quickly by anyone, anywhere. Using Aptar’s Unidose nasal spray system, first-responders can administer the life-saving treatment rather than going through the lengthy multi-step process of fiddling with a syringe and a needle. This product is the first U.S. FDA-approved nasally administered, needle-free, ready-to use medication that can stop or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Aptar’s Future Airless PET® is the first large airless packaging solution that is both fully recyclable* and e-commerce capable**. A joint development by Aptar Beauty and Pinard Beauty Pack, this full packaging option combines Aptar’s multi award-winning, Future pump with Pinard’s patented Airless PET bottle-in-bottle design. This innovative solution is a perfect blend of style and sustainability. Future Airless PET is RecyClass recyclability certified as a semi-finished plastic packaging compatible with PET recycling stream in Europe***.
We have partnered with Kraft Heinz for over 40 years, transforming the way condiments are dispensed and enhancing the user experience. In the 1980s, our partnership helped introduce the first flip-top dispensing closure in the sauces and condiments market. In the 2000s, we upended the market, helping Kraft Heinz to launch its first inverted packaging using our SimpliSqueeze® valve technology. Our flow control valve provides a clean, convenient experience for consumers while minimizing product waste. Consumers have shown a clear preference in this packaging format which revolutionized the way condiment aisles look today.
Our Aptar Beauty team collaborated with Clarins to develop the innovative pump for Clarins Double Serum. The packaging provides a unique delivery system to preserve the integrity of the formula. Our solution triggers the mixing process and delivers, in a single pump, the right dose to apply to the face. The push button can also be rotated to offer customers a different dosage to meet their needs.
Meet Micro+ Futurity™, our next-level Airless+ dispenser for dermal drug delivery. Our solution is reliable, delivering the formulation efficiently and with minimal waste. Additionally, our innovative solution is fully recyclable. Its Airless+ system is mono-material, consisting entirely of medical grade polyethylene (PE) resin. Aptar Pharma has embraced a systemic approach to incorporating sustainability and recyclability aspects into the design of all our products and validates the respective product features through the independent classifications received from organizations like cyclos-HTP.
Aptar’s Future Disc Top is a fully-recyclable and e-commerce-capable locking disc top closure for beauty and personal care applications. Future Disc Top incorporates a locking/unlocking ring that ensures it remains secure during transit and minimizes potential breakage or leaks. This versatile closure can also help brands meet sustainability goals. Comprised of 100% polyethylene (PE), Future Disc Top closure creates a fully recyclable packaging solution when paired with PE and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.
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