Sun Chemical launches new UV ink system for food packaging applications
Sun Chemical has launched SunCure Accuflex
UV, a new UV ink system for primary and secondary food packaging that is not
manufactured with Bisphenol A (BPA)-based materials and meets low migration
specifications.
Compliant with the strictest global
standards in the marketplace, including Nestlé food packaging requirements and
Swiss Ordinance chemical composition requirements, SunCure Accuflex UV flexo
inks meet the latest photoinitiator safe packaging guidelines and provide low
odor and very low residual extractables characteristics, while maintaining the
highest standards of pressroom performance.
As said, the ink system specifically
addresses concerns that brand owners face due to strict labeling laws like
California’s Proposition 65, which require businesses to provide warnings on
their packaging for products that could expose consumers to BPA. BPA and
certain photoinitiators are chemicals that have been identified as carcinogens
and reprotoxins.
Designed for both folding carton and
flexible film packaging applications where high press performance, color
vibrancy and regulatory compliance are critical, SunCure AccuFlex UV flexo inks
offer good adhesion to a variety of film substrates, provide great flexo
viscosity stability under high shear conditions, and exhibit excellent UV cure
response.
Available in North America, SunCure
AccuFlex UV inks can be used for a variety of paper packaging applications and
feature low post-odor properties that are essential to many brand owners.
Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC group, is
a leading producer of printing inks, coatings and supplies, pigments, polymers,
liquid compounds, solid compounds, and application materials.
