Nowadays only a few products in the dental care field – mainly medicinal toothpastes and special products – are sold in aluminum tubes. All the others are made of plastic, and the vast majority of these are laminate tubes.
This is something that suits advertisers, marketing specialists and designers. It means that on the shelf at the point of sale most of the rather large-volume stand-up tubes offer considerably more surface for presenting logos, brand messages, eye-catching decorative elements or important product information.