Lubrizol India promoted a variety of solutions at Asia Coats and Ink 2015. The Ohio-headquartered company which provides specialty chemicals also talked about some of the offerings for packaging, packaging printing and digital printing segments. Highlights were packaging coating solutions, printing inks for digital applications and printing ink performance optimizer.
For the packaging segment, the company talked about BlisterBond Pro, an aqueous packaging coating that can be used wherever strong seals at low temperatures are required. Blisterbond Pro offers a robust sealing processing window. Compatible with RPET, APET, PVC and other common blister types, BlisterBond Pro’s novel aqueous chemistry outperforms solvent-based and aqueous polyurethane dispersion industry benchmarks, according to Vikas Kamble, sales executive, performance substrates, Lubrizol Advanced Materials India.
Lubrizol talked about a range of coatings for digital print film applications, for use with solvent, eco-solvent, UV-cured and latex inks, and for use with aqueous pigment or dye-based inks. Under the brand name PrintRite the company offers a range of component polymers and ready-to-use formulations used in diverse applications such as labels, tags, banners, posters, and more.
When coated and dried under recommended conditions PrintRite film products can be used on polyolefins without a primer, said Kamble adding that they also displayed a wide range of functional characteristics including excellent print clarity, rapid ink-dry time, high color density, and outstanding adhesion and scratch resistance.
He said that a solution such as PrintRite is being offered keeping in mind the rapid growth in digital printing applications in India. “With digital printing getting popular and being applied in applications such as label printing to banner printing, customers now want better quality from printers. Solutions like PrintRite should add to the quality.”
For the printing inks segment, the company promoted Colorburst 2160, which is succinimide dispersant for solvent-based colorants. Colorburst could be used for various pigments but especially carbon black and phthalocyanine blue. For news and magazine printing, it incorporated Colorburst results in better pigment loading, higher color strength and improved jetness.
