Flint Group launches new generation of technologically remastered sheet-fed UV low migration inks

Flint Group has introduced a new generation of sheet-fed UV low migration inks, including UltraCURA Sens, UltraCURA Sens Plas and UltraCURA Sens bases.

Created out of a new resin technology system, these inks are the first in a series of advanced energy curing products from Flint Group to be launched in 2017

Created out of a new resin technology system, these inks are the first in a series of advanced energy curing products from Flint Group to be launched in 2017. 

Flint Group said UltraCURA Sens and UltraCURA Sens Plas are suited for the production of packaging that complies with the requirements of the EU regulation 1935/2004 and 2023/2006, as well as with the Swiss Ordinance 817.023.21. Additionally the series meets the requirements of the EuPIA Guideline,‘Printing Inks applied to the non-food contact surface of food packaging materials and articles’.

Trevor Amps, global product management director for energy curing inks at Flint Group, explained: ‘We decided to use specifically selected resin principles for all our energy curing products, with common, balanced pigmentation levels. This will increase stability and performance consistency across our entire energy curing range. We’re calling it our Platform Technology, upon which all our future energy curing systems will be based.

‘Today, we’re launching the first products based on the new technology, our next-generation low migration inks, UltraCURA Sens, developed specifically for food packaging applications where there‘s no direct contact between the printed image and the contents of the package.’

UltraCURA Sens systems are low-odor, low-migration process ink and base inks for sheet-fed and web offset package printing.  They are suitable for coated and uncoated papers and board, and Plas is also suitable for plastic substrates. Adhesion, ink-water stability, rub resistance, high color strength, fast curing speed and press stability are listed as benefits of the technology.

‘At the very heart of Flint Group’s core values is the drive to innovate, develop and instigate change,’ continues Amps. ‘We also acknowledge that the packaging print market is a very fluid environment where our customers’ needs often change and innovation has become part of the landscape. And with continuing updates in regulations and the re-classification of raw materials, we’re driven to future proof our products and to develop a portfolio at the cutting edge of production performance.’