Sun Chemical’s SolvaWash FL inks awarded

Sun Chemical has received an honorable mention for Innovations in Sustainability during the 2022 Flexographic Technical Association’s (FTA) Sustainability Excellence Award competition.

Sun Chemical has received an honorable mention for Innovations in Sustainability during the 2022 Flexographic Technical Association’s (FTA) Sustainability Excellence Award competition

Sun Chemical’s submission, ‘Recycle-friendly washable inks for plastic packaging’, highlighted the company’s work to promote sustainable products, including the introduction of its SunSpectro SolvaWash FL product line. 

SolvaWash FL inks are used in flexographic printing processes to enable more recyclable and sustainable plastic packaging. The inks are designed to be removed and separated from recoverable plastic substrates to improve recyclability and enable designed-for-recyclability industry certifications that are especially important for brand owners.

‘Sun Chemical is deeply committed to fulfilling its leadership role and responsibility, delivering sustainable ink, coating and adhesive technologies to enable sustainable packaging,’ said Nikola Juhasz, Ph.D., global technical director of Sustainability at Sun Chemical. ‘This FTA award is a testament to the work being done to improve sustainability across all aspects of our business. We appreciate the recognition, and we remain even more focused on developing the next innovation.’

‘There is no doubt that the need to be more sustainable is constantly growing, which makes the FTA Sustainability Excellence Award program more competitive every year,’ added Doreen M. Monteleone, Ph.D., sustainability consultant for FTA. ‘Sun Chemical’s entry was a perfect example of how sustainability is now a primary consideration in developing new products for the benefit of the printing industry.’