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.
About Desall Child Resistant Closure Design Contest
Opportunity Details
- Date Published: June 27, 2025
- Application Deadline: November 27, 2025
- Category: Contest
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.
They are looking for innovative concepts for a new single-component cap intended for the personal care, cosmetics, and food sectors. The cap should stand out from current market solutions in terms of usability, user experience, and functionality. 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.
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.
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.
Benefits of Desall Child Resistant Closure Design Contest
€5000 Award
- The selection of the winner by the Sponsor will be the result of an unquestionable evaluation and it will take into account originality, feasibility and consistency of submitted projects with the presented brief.
Extra Award (option right fee)
€2000
- 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.
Desall Child Resistant Closure Design Contest Requirements
- Participation is free of charge and open to designers and creative talents of any nationality aged 18 years or older.
- Participants may submit one or more projects, but only projects published on the website www.desall.com from the upload page dedicated to the contest will be accepted.
Judging criteria
When evaluating the submissions, the Sponsor will consider the following criteria:
- Degree of innovation 5/5
- Aesthetic quality 5/5
- Functionality/Usability 5/5
- Eco-friendliness 4/5
- Economic sustainability 4/5
Application Date and Process
Contest timeline
- Upload phase: 24 June 2025 – 27 November 2025 (1.59 PM UTC)
- Concept review: 24 July 2025 (1.59 PM UTC)
- Client vote: from 27 November 2025
- Winner announcement: approximately by the end of February 2025
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Note: Since they are an international Community, all texts provided with your uploads (abstract, description, tags, etc.) should be written in English.
Application Deadline
27 November, 2025
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