Flint adds new Ultraking inks

Flint Group has launched Ultraking 4500 LM Premium and Ultraking 4600 LM PLAS Premium as new low-migration UV curable offset ink systems for the food packaging market in North America.

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To address the demand for low-migration systems, Flint Group introduced Novasens conventional sheet-fed offset inks in 2010. Ultraking 4500 LM Premium and 4600 LM PLAS Premium, both available commercially now, are described as the next generation of low-extractable, low-odor and low-migration offset inks available to the North American market.

Ultraking’s low-migration chemistry allows converters to produce packaging that adheres to FDA and European specific migration limits in sensitive primary and secondary, non-direct food contact packaging applications. Ultraking LM 4500 LM Premium and 4600 LM PLAS Premium, as with Novasens, have been certified by ISEGA, an independent analytical testing and certification institute located in Germany.

Both series are also compliant to the Nestlé Guidance Note for Packaging Inks and Swiss Ordinance RS 817.023.21.

Rodney Balmer, Flint Group’s director of global research and product development for sheet-fed inks, said: ‘The Ultraking LM technology sets the standard in food safety and has been specifically formulated to provide printers the ability to print primary food packaging with the confidence that, if cured correctly, it will not contaminate the food.’

Tyler Newsom, product manager for sheet-fed inks in North America, said: ‘The concept of low-migration printing in food packaging continues to gain momentum in the North American market as brand owners and consumers, push for safer food packaging.

‘The introduction of the Ultraking 4500 LM Premium and 4600 LM PLAS Premium allows food packaging converters a one-stop shop for both conventional and UV curable offset ink solutions.’