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Sun Chemical Expands Line of Packaging Inks, Offers Converters "Total Package" at CMM 2005
Northlake, IL
- March 14, 2005 -- Sun Chemical will use CMM 2005 to showcase innovative inks and a new color management system designed to improve pressroom productivity and produce outstanding packaging that builds brand equity. Sun Chemical is emphasizing its ability to provide converters a total package of inks, coatings, adhesives and other products - all available from a single source - that can help achieve improved results in the highly competitive packaging market. CMM will be held April 18-21 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL.
"Converters are being asked to provide for continuous improvement and innovation across a broad range of packaging types from folding carton to stand-up pouches," said Richard Pettifor, President, Sun Chemical North American Packaging Inks. "Sun Chemical is the only ink supplier who can deliver such a complete and consistent line-up of packaging inks to printers anywhere in the world. We use our global resources and local service to help converters of all sizes. "
"In addition to offering breakthrough technologies in brand security, inkjet printing on corrugated and color control systems," he said, "we are showing ink sets that offer converters substantial improvements in productivity and quality. The versatility of these systems and their outstanding printed results can help printers gain an edge."
At CMM, Sun Chemical will offer a continuous schedule of presentations to update converters on hot growth segments of the packaging market, such as retort, shrinks sleeves and new label applications. There also will be a demonstration of how all members of the packaging supply chain can work together to ensure the consistency of brand colors, no matter what substrate or printing process is used. Another presentation will feature FastJet™, a high-speed inkjet printer utilizing UV inks and a fixed array of print heads to produce remarkable results on corrugated packaging.
Other Sun Chemical products being featured include:
For non-lamination surface printing, Sun Chemical is introducing SunSharp™ 1190, which can be used to print applications such as bags for bread or frozen foods, news mailers and some bottle wraps. SunSharp 1190 includes high-strength process and spot colors. These inks have good ice-water crinkle resistance and provide high gloss.
RotoPure™ HS inks developed for printing on films that require excellent adhesion and high lamination bonds. The newest addition to Sun Chemical's highly regarded RotoPure family of lamination inks, the HS series offers high pigmentation for maximum color strength. Formulated without the use of TDI or tin, RotoPure™ HS also balances health and environmental concerns, making it ideal for stand-up pouches, retort and other flexible packaging applications. RotoPure™ HS features excellent printability at high speeds, and can be laminated with adhesives or primed extrusion processes.
Sun Chemical also is offering FlexoPure™ as a general-purpose lamination ink system, which can be used on a wide latitude of flexible packaging films. Because FlexoPure has excellent solvent release and very low GCs, it makes an excellent ink choice for food packaging. It can be used for line and screen printing on a wide range of aniloxes, and laminates well using 100% solids, solvent or water-based adhesives.
Coates USA recently introduced Harmony, a gravure ink system for the fast-growing shrink sleeve market. These inks produce excellent colors on a variety of films used for shirnk sleeves, while resisting bottle blocking.
Please visit Sun Chemical at CMM Booth #2031.
About Sun Chemical
Sun Chemical, the world’s largest producer of printing inks and pigments, is a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales approaching $4 billion, Sun Chemical has over 12,000 employees supporting customers around the world. The Sun Chemical Group of companies includes such well-known names as Coates Lorilleux, Gibbon, Hartmann, Kohl & Madden, Swale, Usher-Walker, Rycoline and US Ink.
Sun Chemical Corporation in the U.S. and Sun Chemical Limited in England are subsidiaries of Sun Chemical Group B.V., the Netherlands. Sun Chemical has headquarters in Parsippany, New Jersey, U.S.A.; Watford, England; and Weesp, the Netherlands. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.sunchemical.com.
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