7 Essentials of FDA Food Contact Coatings
FDA: Regulations to Ensure Safety of the Food Supply Congress, in 1958 enacted the Food Additives Amendment to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). This action gave the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to ensure the safety of food by regulating food additives that may be either directly or indirectly […]
5 Spray Powder Usage Concerns
Setting & Drying Inks It’s all about the setting and drying of conventional sheet fed offset inks. Anti-set-off spray powder is used to prevent set-off, the unwanted transfer of wet ink to an adjacent sheet, in a press end pile. Spray powder not only provides a physical spacing between sheets of substrate, but also allows […]
Benzophenone Free UV Coatings and California Proposition 65
Cork Industries Formulates Benzophenone Free UV Coatings Photoinitiators (PIs) are a key component and a cost driver for UV curing products. They are capable, as their name implies, of initiating or starting a photoreaction. This occurs when a PI absorbs radiation energy from light exposure to produce highly reactive free radicals and ionic species. These […]
Soft Touch Print Coatings Deliver Perception of Quality
Hard Plastic to Soft-Touch Plastic Before soft touch finishes we had to live with hard surfaced materials that were converted into products designed for our use. Think about it! Metals, stone, glass and wood are hard surfaced materials. Most plastic materials are hard surfaced materials, especially those that are used for non-disposable products manufacture. There […]
Electron Beam Flexible Packaging
EB Curing Flexible Packaging Breakthough Evolving EB technology applied to flexo and offset CI presses are competing to be a major factor in the future of flexible packaging. Electron beam technology is widely used in a variety of industrial applications, including wide web offset printing/coating, food preservation, food packaging & medical products sterilization, polymerization, transformation […]
Barrier Coatings for Food Packaging
Demands for Food Packaging With the global customer base for retailed food increasing, food packaging must more and more conform to international food quality, and safety standards. This also can mean longer shelf life is a necessity. Increased global consumer awareness, income, combined with busier lifestyles, is creating a growing demand for convenience foods. Consumers […]
Work & Turn Aqueous Coatings
Work & Turn Work & Turn is a term used to describe the sheetfed litho practice of printing on both sides of a substrate. Typically, the first printing pass prints one side of the substrate. A second printing press pass follows as the job is turned and fed through the press again. The second pass […]
