On July 17, the UK got a new Prime Minister. This isn’t really shocking news, as Andy Burnham will be our sixth Prime Minister in 10 years. However, such changes have an impact on how we, as a Trade Association work, and also how businesses function.
SPRAY Technology & Marketing is an international magazine, so for those who aren’t fully au fait with UK politics, here’s a quick summary of how things work.
The rules that govern us
Rules and regulations are created in the House of Commons (Commons, because it is full of “commoners,” as opposed to those with a title such as Lord, Viscount or Earl, who sit in the revising chamber, the House of Lords). The UK is a Parliamentary Democracy, so we don’t elect our Head of State, as happens in, say, the U.S. or France. The Head of State is King Charles III, and all laws passed in the UK have to go through “Royal Assent.” However, the King has no say in the laws passed in his name.
When we have elections to the House of Commons, the leader of the party that has the largest number of seats becomes Prime Minister (PM). In the General Election of July 2024, Keir Starmer won a majority of Seats in the Commons and became PM. The next election must take place within the five years. The new Prime Minister then chooses a Cabinet, who are the Ministers of State for major Government departments, such as Business, Foreign Affairs and the Exchequer (Finance), from the other elected Members of Parliament (MPs) of their party.
Andy Burnham wasn’t elected as an MP at the general election in 2024. He had previously been an MP and cabinet minister between 2001 and 2017; he then became Mayor of the Greater Manchester Region. In 2026, an MP in Greater Manchester resigned, allowing Burnham to stand as a candidate in his constituency. He duly won the by-election and became an MP on May 14. Just over two months later, the Labour Party pushed Starmer out of office; he resigned as leader of the Labour Party, and Burnham was elected as the new Labour Party Leader. This made him Prime Minister.
Why are these political developments important to us?
Although not formally elected by the people, the Prime Minister leads the country. As such, she or he sets the agenda for government, leads on policy decisions and, ultimately, the buck stops with her or him. Endless speculation about the Prime Minister’s position, as was the case with Starmer, undermines a PM’s ability to govern. When a PM is removed from office, the new PM will then look to put their personality on the cabinet and change the direction of travel, meaning there are many changes in departmental leaders and, inevitably, to policy.
Policy change impact
Such changes leave a vacuum in policy and interfere with the processes of government, as new Ministers have to get up to speed with their departmental briefs. For us in the world of aerosols, and especially as a downstream user of chemicals, there is a great deal of work going on around chemical regulation, industrial strategy, energy costs, packaging waste, recycling and a whole host of other areas.
Trade associations build relationships with Civil Servants, whose job it is to enact the policy decisions made by the Ministers. If the Ministers change every two years (or even more often, as has happened in the recent past), these Civil Servants are left waiting for new instructions (although there is often continuity if the new Minister is from the same party).
Needless to say, advancements made on policy prior to a new leadership can be derailed, with time invested in proposed rules and regulations, and responding to consultations, left redundant.
Despite this inconvenient break in momentum, this isn’t our first encounter with a mid-term leadership change. We now wait to see what changes the new Prime Minister will make to his ministerial team, what policy decisions will impact our industry and focus on how we work together to build on the progress we have made. SPRAY
In the April 2026 edition of the BAMA Bulletin, I took the opportunity to share some innovative ideas that university students brought to BAMA back in 2005. For presentation at the BAMA Innovation Day this year, we invited a group of students from Leeds Beckett Business School to consider the task to “explore the innovation landscape of the aerosol sector to identify, justify and propose an innovative idea to enhance competitiveness, resilience and sustainability.”
Modular Aerosol Architecture
We ended up with five fantastic presentations from six students. Aneesh Babu and Himanshu Nikam started us off with a discussion on Modular Aerosol Architecture, which they called CRRH. Their plan was to produce new components that would fit onto existing aerosol containers, but utilizing a reusable spray head, a lock system to attach the spray head to the container and a reusable barrier chamber that contains the product. The concept shifted aerosols from a linear “make, use, dispose” model to one in which companies inspect and refurbish components rather than making new ones each time.
SprayLink, a “Forever Can” & ZPAA
Olamide Dairo had a similar refillable concept, but with Project Aura—a “Forever Can” refilled with pods of product via a docking station. He then took this concept further, suggesting that companies could develop subscription models to increase revenue and reduce investment costs for both manufacturers and consumers.
The third presentation was from Senyo Agbleze, who challenged the aerosol industry to develop Zero Pressure Aerosol Architecture (ZPAA). This was also built around a refill model, but used a mechanical atomization system to create the spray. His concept was designed to be used across different categories, including traditional areas CRRH Modular Aerosol Architecture Project Aura where the aerosol has many advantages, such as shaving preparations and medical and pharmaceutical devices.
Thi Hong Nhung Le then took the audience through the idea for a mechanical system called SprayLink, which had a reusable “dry” engine to create the spray, alongside a “wet-energy pod” that contained the product and provided the energy for Zero Pressure Aerosol Architecture the system.
New tech for a closed loop approach
Our final presentation was by Vedang Sen, who examined how we might create a closed-loop approach to recover the aerosol package. This involved using QR codes and blockchain technology to track products through the manufacturing, use and recovery processes before they are reused or remanufactured into new aerosol dispensers.
Winners
Having heard the “elevator pitch” from each of the students, the audience was invited to vote for a winner.
In third place was Vedang Sen, for his closed-loop aerosol packaging system, taking home an iPad mini. Second was Thi Hong Nhung Le, for SprayLink, who won an iPad. The very deserving winner was Senyo Ableze for his ZPAA concept; he left the conference with a MacBook Neo. All of the presentations can be found on the BAMA website by navigating to the Innovation Day page.
All of the attendees were mightily impressed by the quality of the work the students produced and their confidence as they stood up in front of an audience of 180 people to make their pitch. We at BAMA would like to thank all the students who took part, as well as Adekunle Oke, Dr. David Chikwere and Olga Munroe of Leeds Beckett University for helping to make this happen. SPRAY
Just over 20 years ago—and for those of my vintage, that’s 2005, not 1980—BAMA ran a competition for university students to come up with some new ideas for aerosol products.
The top three ideas were:
1. A temporary spray-on tattoo. If you attended the BAMA Forum in 2024 (courtesy of Volcke Aerosols), you would have experienced the fun that can be had with such a product.
2. A disinfectant dispenser that could be attached to a hospital bed. I suspect many of us wish we had invested in that idea just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
3. The overall winner? An aerosol that would help dog owners collect a dog’s “leavings” by either coating them in something like silly string or freezing them with liquid nitrogen.
Never one to be shy about borrowing a good idea, as part of our Innovation Day this year, we challenged business school students at Leeds Beckett University to come up with ideas on how the aerosol industry, or the products we produce, could be revolutionized.
The brief the students have been given is very broad. It could be some revolutionary change to the supply chain or an idea for a new way to produce aerosols that the industry has never considered before. It could be a new way of presenting a product that has been in the market for many years or maybe something radical that we have never thought of putting into an aerosol can.
University lecturers and the BAMA team will select what we believe are the top three ideas, which will then be pitched to our Innovation Day audience, à la reality TV show Shark Tank (or Dragons’ Den, as we know it in the UK). Attendees will then be asked to vote for the idea that they believe is the best of the three.
I am fascinated to see what young minds, which aren’t weighed down with the baggage and history that many of us in the aerosol industry carry, will come up with. I hope you will be able to join us in Leeds, hear the proposed ideas and decide which you think is best.
For more information on this year’s Innovation Day, please visit here. SPRAY
At a recent conference I attended, the organizers ran a session where young people just starting in the industry shared their thoughts on life, now that they are out in the world of work. One young man, who had recently graduated from university, explained how he had taken his GCSEs (examinations one takes at age 16 here in the UK) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from reminding me that the COVID lockdowns weren’t just a few months ago, it also made me realize that the next generation has grown up and lived through a whole new way of learning and interacting with one another. They are often referred to as “Gen Z” but are more accurately described as “digital natives.”
When I started in business, I mostly gained detailed knowledge by spending time with more experienced people. Usually, this meant one had to listen to quite long stories before getting to the nugget needed to help sort out the problem one was trying to resolve.
Much of the testing was done empirically, as well. For example, the first valve company I worked for had created a test rig called the Poore-o-meter (named after Mike Poore, the engineer who invented it). This was built when “fast-filling valves” were becoming a thing, and was designed to test different valve designs, measuring how much gas flowed down the dip tube and how much over the gasket, using car engine oil. It worked brilliantly, and the CA38F was born.
However, we now have a generation that expects information to be delivered digitally and who will use digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to solve problems and test designs. This is where organizations such as BAMA must help. We have access to a wide range of individuals across all the different sectors of our industry. Part of our role must be to capture the knowledge that those of us who aren’t digital natives carry in our heads and share it with digitally fluent newcomers.
Digitized content & AI search capabilities
BAMA has already started its journey into this digital world. We have created a Learning Centre with a set of six “Basics” videos on aerosol technology, covering topics such as how a tinplate can is made or how a valve works. Our second step was to create a series of interactive learning units on some of the most critical areas our members must address—for instance, labeling requirements and factory fire safety.
Just two years into this project, we are now updating the user interface to make it more intuitive and easier to access. In the coming months, we plan to digitize much of the content on the BAMA website and put an AI search engine at the front end so people can ask the technology to find the information they need, rather than searching through documents themselves.
As we create an environment for Gen Z to work in, we need to keep in mind Gen Alpha, who will enter the workforce within the next five years. Their digital experience and expectations will be at an entirely different level.
By the way, these are my thoughts made readable by Grammarly.
If you are BAMA member and would like to access the Learning Centre, please click here. SPRAY
Electric vehicles, AI, 5G technology, the omnipotence of the smartphone and the revolution of the workplace have peppered a timeline of transformations over the last ten years.
While perhaps not as historic as these societal and technological advancements, I thought my decade at the British Aerosol Manufacturing Association (BAMA) as Chief Executive was worth a pause for thought, as, despite the frenetic pace of change we have grown accustomed to, it’s the longest I have ever held in one position in my working life.
What’s so special about the BAMA job to make me stay for so long? As a veteran of the aerosol industry, I had, of course, sat on various BAMA Committees, attended the Annual Forum and been involved in many an event led by the association. What I never realized was what happens behind the scenes.
The exit factor
Going back to the early days, BAMA was created to represent the fast-growing UK aerosol manufacturing sector to Government. Regulations were growing to manage what Prime Minister Harold Wilson called “The White Heat of Technology” (sic) in a speech to the Labor Party conference of 1963. Today, our primary role is still to monitor, read, consult, comment and discuss the regulations created by UK Government.
In that respect, who we talk with about regulation has been the biggest change in my time at BAMA. In 2016, the UK held a referendum on European Union (EU) membership and, for better or for worse, the vote was to leave. There then followed a prolonged period of discussion, negotiation and arguing before the UK finally left the EU on Dec. 31, 2020.
Prior to EU Exit, we worked closely with other EU trade associations to influence regulations created by the European Union. Now, in 2025, we spend most of our time talking with the UK Government about their plans to change regulations and how we can best mold these to suit the needs of BAMA members. Sometimes we want to mirror regulations from the EU, but on other occasions there is a benefit to diverging from those created in Brussels.
An events evolution
During my time with BAMA, we have also tried to bring the association closer to its members and remain open to changing needs. New events, such as Innovation Day, go from strength to strength in terms of presentations and attendance, while Aerosol Discussion Evenings have transformed, too. Those who have been in the aerosol industry as long as I have will remember the original incarnation, which took place at the Bayswater Court Hotel in London in the late 1980s and early 90s. The new Aerosol Discussion Evenings format has revived an opportunity for us all to come together and listen to presentations from inside and outside of the industry, as well as catch up with friends and colleagues. As regulations have shifted over the last 10 years, we have also seen focused events—such as the recent Regulatory Day and the upcoming Industrial Safety Day—gain traction.
Lockdown lessons
Training has been taken in-house to our Member Companies, which has proven very popular. We have even taken some of our training overseas, with courses run in Australia and the U.S.
Like all other organizations, we lived through the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and learned some new skills as a result. Out of those difficult times blossomed fresh perspectives on how we should do things. BAMA was already experimenting with webinars to engage more widely with members, without them having to attend face-to-face events. The pandemic accelerated these plans and widened the scope of what we wanted to achieve, resulting in the creation of our online training portal.
Recently, the second phase of the portal has gone live with a set of interactive units to help our members understand subjects such as aerosol regulation, propellant safety and the transport of aerosols.
Learning in the lab
However, if I had to look at one thing I have been most pleased with during my time here at BAMA, it was adding a practical lab session to our Aerosol Technology Course to allow attendees to see, first hand, the effect of valves and propellants on how an aerosol product performs, rather than having to take the word of the (most excellent, it must be said) presenters on the course. I have to say a big “thank you” to the wonderful people at Lindal in the UK for letting us use their lab, staff and other facilities twice a year to make this happen.
What does the next 10 years hold? I wish I knew. What we do know is that there are many issues that are ongoing, and subjects such as
climate change, air quality, the circular economy, chemical regulations, recycling and knowledge retention are not expected to disappear anytime soon. SPRAY
A quick leaf through the pages of SPRAY Technology & Marketing magazine will show that aerosol dispensers are used for an astonishing array of applications—from food to disinfectants to lubricants to paint. However, sitting at the top of the chart, certainly here in the UK, are cosmetic aerosols; the range of cosmetic products that are put into the spray package is astounding.
There are, of course, the core products in the cosmetic field, such as body sprays, antiperspirants, hair sprays and styling mousse. However, any of you who know me will know that I’m fascinated by the more niche applications, especially those that push the package to its limit or challenge the norms of what one would expect from an aerosol.
Take, as an example, L’Oréal’s Infaillible 3-Second Setting Mist. I am no expert on the longevity of foundation or lipstick, but as someone who has been married for many years, I am aware of the need to apply regular “touch-ups” during a day or an evening out.
However, doesn’t this run counter to what we tell consumers to do with aerosols, such as avoiding spraying near the face or eyes? One assumes the clever people at L’Oréal haven’t put something on the market that sprays with the intensity of a hornet nest killer. Looking at the online reviews and influencer videos, it appears to work very well.
One of BAMA’s member companies produces a temporary, spray-on tattoo and last year, at the BAMA Forum, let our attendees have a play. As someone never brave enough to have any body art, I can see this as a wonderful way for those who are curious to try something, or simply to decorate oneself in a unique way for an event. I wonder if tattoo parlors offer this to clients to test out a new design?
Going back to the core of cosmetic aerosols, many marketing companies are now creating whole-body antiperspirants. The advertising is pretty straightforward and blunt: spray it everywhere you sweat (and I mean, everywhere). This is not a new concept—there have been specific products in these niches for many years—but the major marketers, such as Unilever, have now developed formulations and products within their main brand offerings.
I have to leave you with one last cosmetic aerosol I came across as I did some research for this piece, which is an undercoat made by Mazwell group for use on embalmed bodies. There is one last day we want to look good for our loved ones. I wonder if this was what inspired Death Becomes Her, or was it the other way round? SPRAY
Packaging waste is a political “hot potato” in most major economies. For many years, the UK has had a Packaging Waste Recovery Note system (PRNs) that was designed to pay for the cost of recycling. As of Jan. 1, 2025, the UK has introduced the Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) regulations that establish new requirements on companies placing packaged goods, and in some cases empty packaging, on the UK market.
pEPR creates a “disposal fee” to cover the full costs for the collection, sorting and, where recycling is not possible, disposal of packaging waste. Currently, UK local authorities pay these costs from income tax. Recycling costs will still be paid by the PRN system.
The pEPR disposal fees will also include the cost of managing litter, promoting recycling and other enforcement activities. In short, pEPR will transfer the costs incurred for recovering waste packaging, and making it suitable to be reprocessed, to the companies who place it on the market.
Reporting requirements
UK pEPR requires companies to report data on the packaging they place on the UK market each year if they have an annual turnover greater than £1 million and were responsible for importing or supplying more than 25 tonnes of packaging to the UK market.
Obligated companies are either marketers of a brand’s products, those who pack or fill for others, or those who import or supply empty packaging or packaged products into the UK. Companies that meet these criteria are divided into three groups:
1. Large Producers: Companies with an annual turnover of more than £2 million that supply or import more than 50 tonnes of packaging in the UK per year. These companies must report details of what they place on the market twice a year and pay pEPR fees.
2. Small Producers: Companies with an annual turnover of between £1 and £2 million that supply or import between 25 tonnes and 50 tonnes of packaging in the UK per year. These companies must annually report details of what they place on the UK market by April 1 of the following year. They do not need to pay a pEPR fee.
3. Others: Companies with an annual turnover below the £1 million and 25 tonnes threshold do not have to report any data on packaging materials but may have to report on and pay pEPR fees for the packaging and components that they supply to businesses exempted from paying the disposal fee.
Recyclability Assessment Methodology
The pEPR regulations require producers of packaging to assess the recyclability of their packaging using a new Recyclability Assessment Methodology (RAM) to understand if the packaging is recyclable in the current collection, sorting and reprocessing systems. The outcome will be a traffic light system:
• Red: A challenge for recycling
• Amber: May require specialized collection
• Green: Widely recycled within the current infrastructure
Aerosol dispensers will be required to undergo assessment using the RAM to determine if they can be recycled. Currently, aerosol dispensers will be classed as “Green: Widely recycled.” However, as collection and sorting practices change, this situation will need to be reviewed.
From 2026, the RAM will also be used to modulate pEPR fees. Modulation is where the pEPR fee for a package format is adjusted to reflect its ease of recycling.
Future developments
Final fees for pEPR will be issued in October 2025. Until then, UK Government has issued “illustrative fees” that, for the main materials used in aerosols, show the following costs:
• Aluminum: £435 per tonne or 1.3p for a 30g aluminum aerosol container
• Steel: £305 per tonne or 2.0p for a 65g tinplate aerosol container
• Plastic: £485 per tonne or 0.7p for a 15g plastic overcap
From 2026, the pEPR fees will vary depending on how easily the packaging type and material, in the case of plastic, can be recycled. The pEPR fee will be higher than the base fee if the packaging or material is deemed harder or more costly to recycle as determined by the RAM.
For aerosols, especially aluminum aerosols, the diversion of beverage containers from curbside collection may result in higher collection and sorting costs due changes in the process. This is due to the smaller amount of aluminum packaging being collected from curbside and an increased risk from greater numbers of aerosols in the waste, requiring additional safety equipment and processes. SPRAY
Those who take the time to read my columns (and thank you if you do) will know that the UK is very busy at the moment writing new regulations to improve recovery and recycling rates for packaging. In fact, this is something that most major, developed economies appear to be working on.
The question about packaging, for any aerosol dispenser, is an odd one. Aerosols are certainly a package, and it has elements that are packaging. However, the aerosol system works holistically. One needs a container that can withstand both the pressure of the propellant gas, and the chemicals and ingredients used in the formulation. Plus, the formulation and the propellant gas, whether one is using liquefied gas or compressed gas, must be compatible with one another.
We know legislators are looking to bring forward regulations to make products simpler to recycle by mandating fundamental design changes; I think that the best people to work out how this can be done for aerosols are those working in the aerosol industry.
The valve must be sealed onto the container, in much the same way that a screw top needs to be sealed onto a bottle, but the valve does much more than merely keep the product inside. Along with the actuator, the product’s formulations and the gas, the valve controls the way the product is dispensed, creating the consumer experience.
If you are reading SPRAY Technology & Marketing, then I suspect that much of this will not be news to you. However, it will probably be news to those who work in a regulatory capacity. After all, often from an outside perspective, packaging is packaging—isn’t it?
Simplifying aerosol recycling
Aerosol dispensers are a special case when it comes to the package, and it is incumbent upon those of us who work in the aerosol industry to ensure that those who make the rules around packaging—and how packaging is recovered and recycled—understand why an aerosol might need to be considered a little differently. It would be very difficult, nay impossible, to make an aerosol out of a mono-material conforming to the current regulation. However, there are some simple things we can do to make the package easier to recycle.
Over the coming months, the British Aerosol Manufacturers’ Association (BAMA) will be working with our members to consider what industry might do to make the aerosol package simpler to recycle, both for the consumer and for when the product enters and exits the recycling system.
We know legislators are looking to bring forward regulations to make products simpler to recycle by mandating fundamental design changes. I think that the best people to work out how this can be done for aerosols are those working in the aerosol industry. Our ambition is to try and get ahead of the game and look at what changes we might suggest before others, with less experience, do.
I look forward to sharing the outcome of these discussions with you sometime in the very near future. SPRAY
The staff at the British Aerosol Manufacturers’ Association (BAMA) is terrible at throwing anything away. In a recent “tidy up,” we generated 15 sacks of wastepaper, which were sent away to be shredded and recycled. However, before we did this, everything was packed up, sent to be scanned and stored on our ever-expanding cloud drive archive.
One of the dangers of having an extensive archive is that sometimes you go off to find one piece of information to answer a question and then get drawn in, spending long hours reading back through old discussions, comparing filling stats from years gone by, finding pictures of people you knew—and still know—and then sniggering at how they have changed while you are still as handsome, vital and debonair as you were 25 years ago.
However, what is odd (or maybe isn’t) is that many of the issues we faced back in the day, we still continue to face today. Take, for example, this discussion in the BAMA Annual Report from 1963 on hairspray and the potential risks of inhalation of hairspray resins:
Given that the products we make, whether from a pressurized aerosol can, trigger or pump dispenser, go up into the air around us as they are used, it is not a surprise that researchers and regulators are as concerned about the potentially detrimental effects from inhalation today as they were back in 1963.
Measuring VOCs today
Today, analytical techniques have become significantly more accurate and, probably more importantly from a research perspective, portable. BAMA is involved with one such study and part of its work involves traveling around to different cities measuring volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions using a mass spectrometer (in the back of a van) that is sampling the air around it. BAMA can then map the level of VOCs as it travels along the high street or in industrial areas.
It probably won’t come as a surprise that the mass spectrometer sees higher levels of VOCs when passing hair salons and nail bars, and there are also spikes in the industrial areas traveled through. The study is also finding spikes when traveling past restaurants and takeaways as a combination of gas stoves, cooking oil and the frying of various ingredients releases a whole variety of materials into the local atmosphere. The study is also making similar measurements in the home.
The question is: what is the danger to public health from being exposed to these materials? As an industry, we make detailed health assessments of the products we place on the market. There are constant changes to regulations that require the reduction or elimination of ingredients as new scientific data becomes available. The 1963 formulation of a hairspray, for example, is very different to those on the market in 2024.
We must never lose sight of the need to reassure consumers that the products we produce are as safe as they can possibly be, based on the best possible scientific information. Should consumers ever lose confidence in our products, this would have a far more detrimental effect on the industry than anything any regulator could ever do. SPRAY
In April, the British Aerosol Manufacturers’ Association (BAMA) completed its filling statistics survey for 2023; the volume filled was roughly at the same level in 2023 as it was in 2022—just over 1.4 billion cans. Aerosol filling in the UK has been bouncing around the 1.3 to 1.5 billion mark for about 10 years now. In those years, we have lost some filling companies, some products have migrated overseas and other products have moved to the UK.
Elsewhere across Europe, filling figures have also remained fairly consistent, with single-digit growth in many markets and small reductions in others. This raises the question as to whether the use of aerosol dispensers in most Western economies has reached its peak—or, perhaps, we have passed the peak?
Some markets, such as Southeast Asia, China and Latin America, are still seeing positive growth. In Europe and the U.S., often in spite of legislative efforts, aerosol usage has barely changed.
The product mix has certainly evolved. The growth of powder-based antiperspirants filled in the UK continues to grow year on year, as does alcohol-based deodorants. Much of this growth can be put down to a few major brands who, through the combination of high-quality products and performance accompanied by canny advertising and marketing, find new users and new markets every year. However, much of the growth seen in UK aerosol fillings goes to export. The use of aerosols by UK consumers has only grown in relation to the increase in population over the last 20 years.
This brings us back to my question: Have we reached “peak aerosol” with Western consumers? Certainly, in my years in the industry, there haven’t been any major new products launched in aerosol dispensers. As innovative as the development of barrier pack systems were, all they really did was move consumers from shave foam to shave gel. A better consumer experience undoubtedly, but not a move to grow a significant new market.
Can we break new ground?
There have been some novel ideas, such as silicone sealants and builders’ caulk in pressurized packs. Any amateur DIYers (like me) who have struggled with a caulk gun will know how much simpler the aerosol version is to use. There have been a variety of foods put into aerosol cans across Europe. My favorite was a short-lived product that put churro batter into an aerosol can. A fabulous idea, but food in aerosols is something consumers in Europe, particularly, just don’t seem to get—unless it’s whipped cream,
of course.
Anyone who has formulated an aerosol, or played around with the enormous range of valve and actuator systems that are available, knows the scope of products that the humble aerosol can is able to dispense. As the pallet of ingredients, especially preservatives, becomes smaller, one has to wonder if there is a bigger market for a dispensing system that keeps the product hermetically sealed throughout its life, even while the consumer is using it. I’m sure we all have seen the growth in ranges of airless pumps over recent years. Shouldn’t these products be being filled into an off-the-shelf, already available, airless dispenser with a proven capability?
Here’s the challenge for the aerosol industry: We have a trusted, proven, versatile, recyclable package. How do we find new markets, new designs and new styles to take the aerosol dispenser beyond its current markets and break new ground? SPRAY
