Under the Radar

“Environmental friendliness, being the amount of contaminates released into the environment during the curing operation with UV/EB, is greatly reduced when comparing it to conventional curing formats, which are constantly proving to be more harmful to our environment,” he added.

The benefits are obvious and have contributed to their popularity and the reality that these technologies span almost every market in the package-printing world. For instance, according to Elinor Midlik, president, Prime UV, “Every market we can think of in packaging and converting uses Prime UV curing equipment to cure UV inks, UV coatings, and UV adhesives. All types of food packaging—whether folding cartons that will contain frozen foods, cookies, bacon, cereal, or milk, ... or baked food cartons with see-through windows that display donuts and coffee cakes.”