Consumables-Ink - Conventional Flexographic

Founded in 1866, Zeller+Gmelin will host a three-day celebration in September to mark its 150th anniversary. The event will be held in Eislingen, Germany, and will feature entertainment, family-friendly events and an open house.

At this year’s drupa event, the SAKATA INX Group will display many chemistry options for packaging and commercial print providers.

Toyo Ink will be showcasing its ink portfolio at drupa, including solutions for flexo printing, UV/EB curable printing, retort pouch production and eco-friendly water-based systems.

Siegwerk has launched the new SICURA Nutriflex LEDTec ink series, the first LED UV flexo inks for food and pharmaceutical packaging applications.

INX International will feature a wide array of packaging inks at drupa 2016, including solutions for flexible packaging, corrugated board and digital inkjet.

The trinity of inks, substrates and adhesives form the core of nearly every completed package. But with so many variations among these materials, an understanding of how they relate to one another is important for printers and converters to grasp before going to press.

During FTA INFO*FLEX 2016, Sun Chemical will show how its inks, coatings and HD plate technology can produce packaging that pops off the shelf while enhancing pressroom efficiency by coming to color faster at higher press speeds.

Sun Chemical’s inks were used on labels created by ASL Print FX that won the “Best of Class in Flexography Wine & Spirits” award during the annual awards competition hosted by the Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute.

Agfa Graphics and GFI Innovations have entered into a preferred dealer agreement in which Agfa will represent and place GFI’s dispensers for offset and flexographic inks with its customers in North America.

The New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame is honoring Parsippany-based Sun Chemical with the 2015 Corporate Award. Additionally, Ramasamy Krishnan, a Sun Chemical chief scientist, will receive the Inventor of the Year Award.