Lid-Lift Bushings Earn Kiss of Approval From Lipstick Manufacturer
Kingston, Ontario-based Pure Ingenuity Design & Fabrication Group is a custom stainless steel equipment fabricator that manufactures all sorts of processing equipment for global companies in the food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Their customers include Kraft, Nestle, Parmalab, Pfizer, L’Oreal and Clairol.
A few years ago a representative for a Canadian cosmetics manufacturer asked Pure Ingenuity if it could design and build a jacketed and insulated kettle for making lipstick. Several materials must be dropped into the kettle, which simultaneously agitates and melts the materials. The kettle must then be tilted to pour the liquid lipstick into molds.