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Sun Chemical Shares Expertise on 'Best Practice' with Low-Migration Printing Guides
Slough, England
- April 16, 2007 -- Sun Chemical has joined forces with brand owners, printers and internationally renowned agencies to launch a best practice guide for low-migration printing with UV curing or conventional offset inks.
More than 2,000 copies of the 16-page guide in English have been sent out all over the world to printers, brand owners and consumers to meet growing demands for more knowledge in the face of increasing concerns and legislation on 'migration' from packaging. A new edition is available now in French and other languages are planned.
The guide includes a glossary of terms and frequently asked questions, the reasoning behind why low migration inks, coatings and consumables are used, pre-press and package design, production of low migration packaging, storage and legislation. The guide has been sent to national and international agencies for review and comment. It should be of interest to all parts of the graphic chain from package designers and pre-press, printers and converters, print buyers and brand owners to retail and consumer associations.
Co-ordinator and report author John Adkin, Sun Chemical's European sheetfed product director, said: "There are more and more demands to minimise the risk of migration from packaging components into the packaged food, drink, pharmaceutical, medical, tobacco or other sensitive product. Reducing the risk of migration reduces the risk of any change in the nature, quality, organoleptic property, colour, shelf-life or other important property of the packed product."
Felipe Mellado, Sun Chemical Europe's corporate vice-president, marketing said: "A best practice guide like this is no substitute for up-to-date information from the suppliers of equipment and consumables that are used in production or used in the printed packaging sourced from converters. Our aim has been to help identify areas that warrant attention when seeking the best way to achieve a reduced risk of migration from printed packaging."
Copies of the guide can be obtained by mail from sheetfed@eu.sunchem.com.
About Sun Chemical
Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, is a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales of approximately $3.5 billion, Sun Chemical has over 11,000 employees supporting customers around the world. The Sun Chemical Group of companies includes such established names as Coates, Hartmann, Kohl & Madden, and US Ink.
Sun Chemical Corporation in the U.S. and Sun Chemical Limited in England are subsidiaries of Sun Chemical Group B.V., the Netherlands. Sun Chemical has headquarters in Parsippany, New Jersey, U.S.A.; Slough, England; and Weesp, the Netherlands. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.sunchemical.com.
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