Packaging With a Golden Touch

ANI Printing Inks offers its MetalGlow line of printing inks, which are metallic inks that provide printability and consistency throughout multiple runs.

Metallized paper and films may not be a more cost-effective alternative than foils, but they offer physical properties in a way that foil can't, including stronger barrier properties. Toray Plastics (America) recently introduced a foil-free packaging solution for packets and stand-up pouches, called PCF-2. The 45-gauge metallized barrier OPP film is ultra-thin and puncture-resistant, and also provides moisture and oxygen barrier durability, and improved economics over traditional foils.