Contract manufacturing

A new four-color brochure from CCL Custom Manufacturing (Rosemont, IL) discusses the company's wide range of contract manufacturing ca-pabilities including compounding, mixing, filling and packaging.

Oct 31, 1995

Ap-plications include packaging of aerosols, liquids, solid sticks, powders and toothpastes.

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