From dual studies to professional life

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CMC has been a training company since 2012. We are proud to have achieved a retention rate of 100% of our dual students to date. Local educational partnerships, such as with Heidenheim Cooperative State University, ensure an exchange with potential junior staff and turn our dual students into company ambassadors. At CMC, we attach great importance to fully integrating our dual students into the teams of the respective departments and actively involving them in day-to-day business. They also work on their own projects within the departments. This provides them with valuable, challenging work and an all-round insight into the working world of CMC. In order to give our dual students an insight into the company’s production and logistics in addition to the administration in the CMC offices, visits are made to the plant in Düren. Most recently, Tamara Olbrich successfully completed her dual studies in business administration and industry at CMC in September. We would like to congratulate her on this achievement. The management and Head of Marketing congratulated her on completing her dual studies. We are delighted that Tamara Olbrich will continue to work in Product Management at CMC and wish her all the best and every success in her new career.

Tamara Olbrich with CMC CEO Holger Battling and Head of Marketing Rebecca Brenner

CMC at the PLMA 2024

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From May 28-29, 2024, CMC took part at PLMA (Private Label Manufacturers Association), the largest international trade show platform for the private label industry, as an exhibitor once again.

More than 28,000 trade experts from all over the world attended the exhibition in Amsterdam. Around 2960 companies from 73 countries were represented as exhibitors.

CMC’s booth showcased our portfolio of nonwovens, hygiene and medical products that meet the highest sustainability standards. This enabled us to show our customers how we can integrate our expertise in these areas into their product ranges and support the success of their brand through innovation and product competence.

Over the years, CMC GmbH has successfully established itself in the private label sector as a supplier of solutions in the areas of cotton, cosmetic, medical, baby and home care products and has already convinced all well-known retailers with its high level of product and range expertise and high rate of innovation.

In accordance with the trade show slogan, “Connect. Source. Grow”, the sales team was able to exchange ideas with industry experts and is pleased about a successful trade fair with many exciting discussions and contacts with both existing and potentially new customers.

Plastic free cotton swabs

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Images of plastic waste in our oceans have prompted us to rethink the hygiene classic cotton swab, long a typical plastic product.

Not only were the plastic shafts replaced by sustainable paper shafts. We go one step further and have also changed the entire packaging concept to recyclable paper packaging. Thus, a product that was previously made of almost 100% plastic has undergone a turnaround to a plastic-free and biodegradable hygiene product based on renewable raw materials. In this way, a contribution to a better future can be made early in the morning during daily hygiene.

We have invested extensively in the plastic-free future of our cotton swabs and realigned our manufacturing in Turkey. All product components of our cotton swabs can be implemented according to current sustainability needs.

The paper used in our FSC®-certified paper stocks comes from either responsible sources or 100% recycled material. The raw material for the absorbent cotton heads is based exclusively on regenerative resources and consists of 100% cotton, which is moreover available as organic cotton from certified cultivation. This means that the cotton swabs are biodegradable due to their product structure and even meet the requirements for home and garden composting*.

In terms of product packaging, we rely on recyclable, FSC®-certified paper packaging in the spirit of the circular economy, for which only printing inks without mineral oils are used. With a focus on resource efficiency, the size of the folding carton packaging has been continuously optimized and the use of materials reduced to the bare minimum.

The cotton swab production is carried out with highly efficient production equipment of the latest generation. Thanks to fully integrated, highly automated production and packaging lines, paper shafts and cotton wadding become cotton swabs and packaged end products in record time. In doing so, we always keep an eye on our operational environmental goals through an independent environmental management system certified in accordance with ISO 14001.

*according to DIN EN 13432:2000-12 and NF T51-800:2015

“Design for Recycling” – Recycling-friendly packaging design

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In Europe, too, a not inconsiderable proportion of packaging waste unfortunately still ends up in landfills instead of being recycled.

Therefore, it is our concern to promote circular economy and to contribute to a functioning recycling cycle with our packaging design. The basis for this is the so-called “Design for Recycling”, the recycling-friendly design of a packaging. In the course of product development, all components of a packaging are consistently designed for recyclability.

The jars of our impregnated cosmetic pads are an illustrative example of sustainable packaging development. On the one hand, they fulfill all the classic packaging functions by protecting the product, making it optimally available and providing important product information. On the other hand, the crucibles are deliberately designed to be ultra-light and thin-walled, in line with the principle of efficient use of natural resources. They also contain a proportion of recycled plastic and are themselves made from only one type of plastic, for maximum recyclability. This means that the plastic used can remain in a closed cycle for a long time, which massively reduces the burden on the environment.

Unbleached cotton pads

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Why stop at going back to the original when it comes to absorbent cotton products?

Naturalness is all the rage, which is why we have created a sustainability-oriented alternative to bright white bleached hygiene products with our natural cotton pads. No chemical bleaching process is used in the preparation of the raw cotton to produce the natural pads, which saves energy and resources. And this is done entirely without affecting the proven properties of the pads. These are preserved by omitting the purely optical processing step, as is the natural coloring of the cotton fibers. After all, it doesn’t always have to be bright white when naturalness benefits the environment.

AHA + PHA Glow Peel Pads

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Dull complexion adé!

Chemical peels with mild fruit acids are considered effective beautifiers for the complexion. Our new Peel Pads with 10% AHA + PHA fruit acid complex leave the skin wonderfully soft and provide a fresh, radiant complexion. They contain a carefully balanced combination of selected fruit acids for optimum effect and tolerance. The proven AHA complex of glycolic acid and lactic acid acts like a freshening cure for the skin, effectively ridding it of dead skin cells and thus supporting the skin’s own cell renewal. PHA acids are among the particularly well-tolerated exfoliating agents, as their larger molecular structure means that they penetrate the skin more slowly and have extremely low irritation potential. In addition, they bind moisture in the skin cells and thus increase skin hydration. Our soft, ready-to-use pads eliminate the hassle of dispensing exfoliating fluids, are plastic-free and made of 100% cotton. An effective beauty “must-have” with an extra portion of convenience.

Biodegradable Peel Pad

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Sustainability meets function and design.

Aware of our responsibility for the environment, we have developed a peel pad that does not contain any environmentally harmful peeling agents. The innovative design coating with activated carbon provides the usual exfoliating effect, is free of microplastics and is also biodegradable*. If you don’t want to do without your usual cleansing lotion, but also soft skin and a fresh, radiant complexion, you’ve come to the right place with our individually soakable pad made of 100% cotton and trendy motif coating. This is how peeling goes in harmony with nature.

*according to EN ISO 13432

3D-structured pads

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Complementing a wide range of embossed designs for cotton pads, our state-of-the-art nonwoven bonding process using water jet needling offers new surface design options for cotton pads.

Instead of conventional embossing via printing, structuring by means of water jet enables a characteristic three-dimensional design of the pad surface. This creates raised and flat areas that interact to form an attractive motif. Not only does the pad look benefit from this, structured pads can also score in terms of thickness. While the pad thickness is reduced to a certain extent with conventional embossing, 3D-structured pads can be provided with an attractive design surface without any loss of thickness. So goes original pad design for extra volume and softness.