- Solvents and oils for printing inks: current
legislative pressure and trends.
(with special attention to Offset Inks) At the present time a great deal of pressure is being brought to bear on the surface-coatings industry to reduce the volume of organic solvents used in production, and thus reduce the current levels of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emitted into the atmosphere, which ......
- Green printing: Indiana printers embrace
environmentally sound technology.
Indiana's printing industry is turning greener. Digital, camera-based technology for plate-making, new soybean and vegetable inks and water-based solvents to clean presses and other equipment are all turning printing into one of the more environmentally responsible industries in the state. That wasn't the industry's image a decade ago. Printers used ......
- Organic solvents - what of the
future?
with special attention to Flexographic Solvents The background The focus of this article is not to defend the position of organic solvents as used in printing inks; rather the intention is to highlight the wide range of essential issues relating to the environmental and economic aspects of the industry sector ......
- Polyurethane modifiers for nitrocellulose
inks.
Nitrocellulose based inks are versatile but lack flexibility. Nitrocellulose (NC) has been utilised by manufacturers from as early as the 1920s as a raw material for the production of a broad range of goods, ranging from the shoe to the automobile industry. One important industry where the excellent film forming ......
- Focus
Inks, adhesives & accessories Solvent-based adhesive The Adcote™ line of solvent-based adhesives for packaging laminations has a new addition—Adcote 812 and 577. Adcote 812 laminating adhesives are FDA-compliant for high-temperature applications, including retort, and can be used on exiting equipment. They are also said to provide for attractive economics versus ......
- New solvents based on renewable raw materials for
cleaning operations in the ink industry.
Over the last 40 years, litho printing has become the major technology of the printing ink industry[1]). The flatbed printing principle utilises a rubber blanket roller and both ink and dampening roller systems. During the printing process, the rollers tend to become embedded with printing ink and paper dust. thus ......
- The inks market: shades of gray.
The printing ink industry, including ink manufacturers and their suppliers of key ingredients such as solvents, resins, waxes, oils, and other additives, has faced challenging, market conditions in recent years, with little change expected in the months to come. Higher raw material and energy costs, increasing globalization, competition from China ......