Philip Morris Products S.a.

Mathias Beutler

Lucas Chatelain

Dorothy Tritz

Arjen Hamilcar Slooff

Cassandra Sandra Alcocer Beltran

Casandra Sandra Alcocer Beltran

A container includes a housing and an outer film. The housing has an inner surface, an outer surface, a rear wall and a circumferential length. The housing includes a box and a lid hingedly attached to the box at a hinge line on the rear wall of the housing. The housing also includes an opening line. The outer film is disposed on the outer surface of the housing. The outer film includes a covering portion and an opening portion. The opening portion has a length that is less than the circumferential length of the housing and the opening portion is disposed along the opening line of the housing.

Container including outer film

Method for producing a plurality of blanks from a continuous strip of material. Firstly, a continuous strip of material () is provided, the strip having a plurality of cut-outs () spaced along a longitudinal direction thereof. Then, the continuous strip is cut along a plurality of cut lines () to form the plurality of blanks (), each cut line comprising a straight transverse section and a curved section. Each cut line intersects a respective cut-out in the strip in the curved section of the cut line. Each cut line, together with its respective intersected cut-out, corresponds to an edge () of at least one of the plurality of blanks. There is also provided a blank () formed by the method and a container () for consumer goods, the container comprising an inner frame () formed from a blank formed according by the method.

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Vallon, Switzerland

Mathias Beutler