Flint Group’s new range of PU based inks is selling well

Flint Group’s Packaging and Narrow Web Division reports a series of successes for its new solvent-based ink series for the packaging market.  The product range is based on a nitrocellulose and chlorine free polyurethane/acrylic binder system and is specially designed to meet the requirements of a broad range of high performance lamination applications.
 
‘VarioLam AB is suitable for both flexo and gravure applications and allows our customers to manage lamination printing with only one basic ink range’, said Tom Donaldson, technical support manager for Flint Group UK & Ireland.
 
The new product range has been introduced at a number of customers for a variety of end-use applications including wet wipes solutions as well as boil in the bag applications.
 
‘We were looking for an ink that maintained good bond strengths after vigorous boiling in hot water for 20 minutes’, explained Dave Wilson, production manager at Rockwell, Dundee, (Scotland), one of Flint Group's first European customers with the new VarioLam AB. ‘After testing Flint Group’s VarioLam Inks, we were impressed by the excellent bond strengths they provided and good color strength and printability,’ he added.
 
‘The product range is available as finished ink, and has excellent lamination capability with modern solvent-based and solvent-free adhesives,’ explained Matthias Henker, product director film and foil EMEA.  He continued: ‘Variolam AB inks are also suitable for retort applications when used with the corresponding pigments, lamination structures and adhesives.  We have also run successful trials where VarioLam AB replaced vinyl-based inks in triplex lamination work.’