Ileos, a beauty and healthcare packaging company, has acquired Aphena Health & Beauty, a division of Aphena Pharma Solutions Holdings, Inc, which specialises in turnkey contract packaging, manufacturing and sampling solutions for the cosmetics and fragrance industries. The acquisition is said to reinforce Ileos leadership in these areas through its worldwide division Bioplan and its US subsidiary Le Papillon-Bioplan. The company will be able to serve the fragrance and cosmetics industries with vial on card, spray vials, roller ball packages, packets and tubes, as well as Le Papillon-Bioplan USA servicing the colour cosmetics segment with blister packaging and dispensing systems technology. Aphena Health & Beauty, which is based in Whippany, New Jersey, is expected to generate approximately US$30m in 2013.