Moisture and Water Vapor Transmission Rates in Packaging
WVTR & MVTR Permeation Many packaged products are sensitive to moisture. Therefore, control of water vapor into or out of the package is critical to the contained product’s quality. The permeability of packaging materials has a direct effect on a packages performance in terms of the contained products shelf-life. This permeation by moisture is measured […]
Aqueous Blister Coatings Printed In-line
Aqueous Blister Coatings Take Over Talk about a market change over! It wasn’t too many years ago that the blister card market was dominated by solvent based blister card coatings. Not only has the blister card market grown by leaps and bounds, but the dominating solvent based blister card coatings have been replaced by aqueous […]
California Prop 65 UV Coatings
Why Prop 65? In California, Prop 65 requires the state to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or reproductive harm. The law requires a warning label on anything containing these. Benzophenone was listed in 2012. Benzophenone (BP) or Benzo, has been generally recognized as the most used Photoinitiator (PI) globally. […]
Coatings & Anilox Transfer Efficiency To The Substrate
Flexo Style Chambered Doctor Blade Metering Coaters Flexo style chambered doctor blade metering coaters have become the dominant coater type used on sheet fed offset presses. They have proved capable of producing high levels of precise, repeatable application of clear coatings, and other fluid products. Integral to this success has been the development of the […]
Media Reports Fluorinated Compounds in U.S. Fast Food Packaging
Dangerous Chemicals are Found in Food Wrappers and Fast Food Packaging A number of news outlets have recently reported dangerous chemicals found in food wrappers, referred to and quoted the findings of a study conducted in 2014-15 by Silent Spring Institute. The study was published in the journal, “Environmental Science & Technology Letters.” It reported […]
Soft Touch Coatings Raise the Bar
About Soft Touch Coatings Soft Touch coatings are able to provide products with a unique soft, warmer, more comfortable, luxurious, feel that humans intrinsically desire. The tactile, haptic effect provided is able to enhance the sensory perceptions of the consumer. Soft Touch coatings unquestionably add value to products as they impart appealing visual and tactile […]
Dry Erase Whiteboard & Chalkboard UV Coatings
Dry Erase & Chalk Board UV Coatings Specialty UV coatings give printers and brand managers alike the opportunity to create a product marketing advantage. Today, UV coatings that provide a smooth matte finish on a printed substrate are available from Cork Industries to create both whiteboard & chalkboard surfaces on a variety of common printable and […]
Aqueous Coatings Boost Litho Productivity
Why use Aqueous Coatings in Lithography? Productivity! When a sheetfed offset lithographer is asked, “Why do you use overprint varnishes?” The stock answer is that conventional oleoresinous overprint press varnishes are used to protect conventional litho inks. An expanded answer adds that rub and scuff resistance can be improved and the finish can range from […]
UV Coatings Change Impulse Buying Dynamic
Specialty UV Coatings Lead to Impulse Buying The creative use of decorative specialty UV printed coatings is opening the eyes of brand managers and impulse buyers alike. These attention demanding special effects UV coatings are proving to be capable of differentiating products and increasing impulse sales for retailers. What are the forces that stimulate us […]
Printing on Plastic Substrates can be Tricky
Paper Substrates Forgive, Plastic Ones Do Not. Much has happened since we last wrote about printing on plastic substrates. Compared to a few years ago, many more printers are printing on plastic substrates and the variety of available substrates has increased, as has interest in printing on these materials, the result of innovative new applications.
