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Sun Chemical to be Exclusive Distributor
for NAMSA Sterilization Indicating Inks
Parsippany, NJ
- September 21, 2006 -- Applications in Intelligent Chromatics (AiC), a division of Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and organic pigments, and NAMSA have announced a marketing agreement in which AiC will be the exclusive distributor of NAMSA's Sterilization Indicating Inks.
With its global sales network, Sun Chemical has developed tailored customer relationships to provide high-quality products and services for a wide range of printing needs. Under this agreement, AiC will offer NAMSA's indicating inks, which are based on pigment technology that does not use heavy metals. These inks can be used for ethylene oxide (EO), dry heat, hydrogen peroxide and steam formaldehyde sterilization processes. They are used primarily for medical applications, and print as an area that changes color permanently when adequate sterilization treatment by chemical or radiation has been applied.
"These inks can be used on flexible and retort packaging, labels and specialty tapes produced by converters who work with pharmaceutical and health care consumer product companies," said Jean-Do Turgis, business development manager, AiC. "These sterilization inks allow Sun Chemical to take another step toward providing a 'total solution' for converters."
The sterilization indicating ink product lines are suitable for high-speed flexographic, gravure, and screen printing processes and are certified to ISO 11140-1 for Class 1 Process Indicators. AiC will offer NAMSA's complete line of inks, many of which are the same color transitions as leading products. Offering similar color transitions allow for easy conversion with little to no re-qualification by the end users. Because the inks are free of heavy metals, there are no special requirements related to their application and disposal. The inks are safe to handle and easy to clean.
For further product information, please call Jean-Do Turgis in France at +33 24013 42 40 or Gord Agar in North America at +1 416 970 8174
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, Hartmann, Kohl & Madden, 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.; Slough, England; and Weesp, the Netherlands. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.sunchemical.com.
About NAMSA
NAMSA is a multinational company with laboratories in the United States and France. Primarily serving the health care industry, NAMSA offers testing services to device manufacturers, raw material suppliers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, sterilizers and other related industries. The U.S. laboratories are certified to ISO 13485 and Biomatech, in France, is accredited according to ISO 17025. NAMSA also manufactures sterility assurance products such as biological indicators, growth promotion test suspensions, and chemical process indicators.
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