Child Resistant Closure Design

Child Resistant Closure Design is now open for entries!

Child Resistant Closure Design : A leading company, in collaboration with Desall, is looking for an innovative cap for the personal care, cosmetics, and food sectors that integrates a child-resistant safety system.

➜ Short description

A leading company, in collaboration with Desall, is looking for an innovative cap for the personal care, cosmetics, and food sectors that integrates a child-resistant safety system. The closure must prevent opening by children while ensuring easy and intuitive use for adults.

Organiser is looking for innovative concepts for a new single-component cap intended for the personal care, cosmetics, and food sectors. You are invited to propose a concept for a tamper-evident cap, reclosable and preferably single-component, that stands out for its usability, user experience, and functionality. The solution should engage and attract consumers through a multisensory approach or, alternatively, through innovative features that enhance the overall user experience.
It will be designed to prevent accidental opening by children while ensuring easy and intuitive use for adults.
The goal is to develop an innovative closure that meets market needs, reduces plastic usage, and simplifies existing solutions.

To develop an effective and innovative child resistant closure, the project should follow these key principles:

➜ Compatibility: The cap should preferably be compatible with bottles featuring a threaded neck.
➜ Plastic reduction: Minimize non-essential components and optimize the design by reducing thickness without compromising functionality.
➜ Simplified design: Avoid complex structures that increase costs and make the product harder to use.
➜ Ease of recycling: Use a single component or easily separable parts to improve sustainability.
➜ Ease of Use and Accessibility: Ergonomics should be considered for individuals with motor difficulties. Visual and tactile indicators should be introduced to facilitate correct use. An audible “click” sound during opening and closing can provide confirmation of proper operation.
➜ Cost optimization: Incorporate efficient manufacturing solutions and reduce the need for secondary packaging.
➜ Customization: Possibility to add a logo or the customer’s brand name.
➜ Airtight seal: The cap must ensure an airtight closure.

You are invited to design a cap with strong aesthetic value and attention to detail, capable of establishing a new stylistic language that sets it apart from current market offerings. However, the cap’s design should not feature overly distinctive or brand-specific elements, as it needs to adapt well to containers of various shapes and styles, depending on the brand using the specific bottle.

The cap must be manufactured using industrial production technologies, specifically injection molding. The most suitable materials for this context are polypropylene and polyethylene, with the option to create either mono-material or bi-material caps using the same molding cycle. At your discretion, you may also propose bi-injected solutions using thermoplastic materials or soft components, provided they offer a significant advantage in terms of user experience or functionality. Ideally, the new cap should be single-component.

The cap must be compatible with bottles of various sizes, with standard neck diameters of 24, 28, and 38 mm. For the purposes of the contest, you are required to present at least the solution for the 24 mm neck. The liquid exit hole can have an indicative diameter ranging from 2,5 to 7 mm.

The cap you propose should be perceived as a unique, innovative product, ideally developed with a focus on environmental sustainability. Usability and user experience are of utmost importance, ensuring the product is considered reliable in every aspect, including during transport.

Judging criteria:

➜ Degree of innovation
➜ Aesthetic quality
➜ Functionality/Usability
➜ Eco-friendliness
➜ Economic sustainability

Winner will be announced approximately by the end of February 2025.

➜ Submission requirements:

➜ Provide detailed descriptions and up to 5 images to effectively present your projects. Images should be in 4:3 format, with .jpg, .gif or .png file formats acceptable. The colour mode should be RGB and the maximum size of a single file should be 1 MB.
You’re invited to use the designated field on the submission page to attach a .zip file containing 3D files and high-resolution versions of the project images. The maximum file size for the .zip archive is 100MB.

➜ Participants may submit one or more projects.

➜ All texts provided with your uploads (abstract, description, tags, etc.) should be written in English.

➜ Who may enter?

Participation is open to creative talents of any nationality aged 18 or older.

➜ Prize:

The winner will receive €5000 in the cash prize. Throughout the duration of the option right, the Sponsor offers an additional opportunity to all participants by setting the compensation of €2000 for the purchase of the licence for the economic exploitation of projects not recognized as winning proposals.