Siegwerk launches Sicura Nutriflex LEDTec

With this ink series, Siegwerk said it is the first company in the market to offer UV LED flexo printing inks for food and pharmaceutical packaging. Siegwerk ink specialists demonstrated the use of inks, which had been matched to the specific radiation spectrum of UV LED light, on a Gallus EM 280 at Labelexpo Europe 2009. The latest development follows a series of extensive and successful production tests.

Siegwerk notes that an increasing number of printers are opting for UV LED technology regardless of the printing process used. ‘With its potential for eco-efficiency, cost-effectiveness and productivity advantages, it is definitely one technological advance of recent years that will drive future development in the printing industry,’ the company said in a statement detailing the launch of Sicura Nutriflex LEDTec, which is based on the Sicura Nutriflex 10 series.

Rolf Montag, product manager in the Narrow Web business unit at Siegwerk, commented that the company regards UV LED curing as one of the growth drivers in the market. ‘Overall we anticipate a volume-related switch from conventional UV to low migration UV inks in the printing market in 2016. A further expansion of applications will enable printers to use UV LED inks for their full range of print jobs.’