The Tube: Top Quality Packaging Made in Europe

The tube is the ideal form of packaging for semi-solid contents. Thanks to the materials and material combinations used it offers a barely attainable range of benefits: the highest standards of hygiene, excellent barrier properties, outstanding product protection, virtually unlimited design opportunities, real consumer benefits, and trend-setting environmental sustainability. And all this in tried-and-tested top quality, no matter if it is an aluminium, plastic or laminate tube.

Their high-quality standards, their enormous versatility and their impressive amount of convincing benefits have made flexible tubes so successful in many sectors and end-use markets such as cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, oral care and food as well as in the wide range of household and industrial applications, to name just the most important markets.

The member companies of etma, the European Tube Manufacturers Association, have essentially contributed to the market success and the high quality standards of the tube. They do not only account for about 75 per cent of European flexible tube production, but definitely are ahead of the pack and world leaders with regard to quality standards.

New etma secretary General

WINNERS OF THE ETMA TUBE OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025

The award ceremony for the etma Tube of the Year Award 2025 took place during the Annual Meeting of the European Tube Manufacturers Association (etma) on May 21 in Nice …

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New etma secretary General

SEIFELDIN RASLAN MOHAMED ELECTED AS NEW ETMA SECRETARY GENERAL

At the etma General Assembly held in Nice on 21 May 2025, Seifeldin Raslan Mohamed (right) was elected as the new Secretary General of etma. He succeeds Gregor Spengler (left), who stepped down after 31 years of dedicated service to the organization …

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Magazine

etma´s Online Magazine tubes & trends:
Up-To-Date and Free-of-Charge

Etma regularly publishes all important information about the tube as perfect packaging solution, the latest developments in the European flexible tubes industry and the general market situation in etma’s online magazine “tubes & trends”. You will also find reports and photos of interesting and innovative tube examples as well as the winners of etma’s “Tube of the Year” contest. So, let yourself be informed and inspired and keep abreast of times when it comes to the flexible tube!
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