Criteria of Michigan Testing Institute

Printing by processes

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Screen Printing

Pad Printing

UV Screen Printing

UV Flexo Printing

UV Varnish Printing

Gravure and flexo Printing

Special Inks and Colours

Other supplementary Products

Products

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Products By substrates

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• ABS(Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene)
• Acrylates
• Aluminium, Blank/lacquered aluminium film, Unpainted Aluminium & Aluminium NC-coated
• Ceramics
• Chrome plated plastic
• Chrome plated steel
• Cigarette paper
• Coated glass
• Glass
• Gold
• HDPE (High-Density Polyethylene)
• Lacquered substrates
• Metals
• PA
• Paper / cardboard coated
• PC
• PET(Polyethylene terephthalate)
• PETG
• PMMA
• Polyester
• POM
• PP
• Pre treated OPP (Orientated Polypropylene )
• Pre-treated HDPE
• Pre-treated PE
• Pretreated PE/PP/Untreated Polypropylene
• PS
• PU
• PVC plasticized
• PVC soft
• PVC, rigid
• SAN
• Steel
• TC Polypropylene
• Thermosets
• Urea formaldehyde
• Woods
• Woven and non woven fabrics

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Products by markets

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• Automotive
• Bathroom Fittings & Fixtures
• Ceramics
• Closures and Caps
• Cosmetic Containers
• Electronics and household appliances
• Feeding Bottles and Drinking Bottles
• Finishing
• Flexible packaging
• Food Industry
• Furniture Industry
• Hollow /Flat Glass printing
• Jewelry
• Kitchen Steel Utensils
• Labels
• Medical
• Plastic bottles
• Plastic cartridges
• Plastic cup/bucket
• Plastic Tubes
• Promotional items
• Sports
• Tagless/Neck labels/Apparels
• Tippings, cigarettes
• Toys
• Wine / champagne capsules, aluminum lids / foils

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Products By characteristics

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• Abrasion – resistance
• Alkali resistance
• Allergic Fragrances-Free
• Aromatic solvents – free
• Azo-Dyes-Free
• Barium – free
• Benzophenone and 4-methylbenzophenone(4-MBP) - free
• Bispenol A formulated free
• BPA – free
• Bromine – free
• Butyl glycolate – free
• Cadmium-Free
• Chemical resistance
• Chlorine-free
• CMR substances - free
• crush resistant
• Cyclohexanone – free
• Deep drawable
• Dishwasher resistance
• Elastic ink film
• Embossable
• environmental friendly
• Especially for high-speed cylinder screen printing machines
• Excellent adhesion
• Excellent color transfer
• Excellent line, raster and area printing
• Excellent overprintability with UV flexo, offset, letterpress inks
• Excellent product resistance after 48 hours
• Fast Drying
• Fast processing
• filling material resistance
• Flame retardents
• Flexible color film
• Fluorine – free
• formulated free from Bisphenol A
• Glossy
• Good binding capacity
• Good bulk material resistance
• Good curing
• Good ink transfer
• Halogen-free
• Heavy Metals-Free
• High color intensity
• High color strength and brilliance
• High coverage
• High coverage
• High elasticity
• High flexibility
• High gloss
• High lightfastness
• High productivity
• High reactivity
• Highly opaque
• Ice water and frost resistance
• Immediate processing possible
• ITX Free
• Laminatable
• LED curing
• Leveling properties
• Light-fast
• Low fog even at high printing speed
• Low migration
• Low relief
• Low residual solvent values
• Low Viscosity
• Low-odor
• Mechanical and chemical resistant
• Metallic and Mirror effect
• Nitrocellulose based
• NON-Toxic
• Not suitable on food packaging
• Offset and letterpress inks
• One component ink
• optical rheology
• Optimal Adhesion
• Organic solvent – free
• Organostannic Compound-Free
• Over-lacquered
• Overpaintability
• overprintability, overpaintability
• Particularly suitable for combination printing with UV flexographic printing inks and UV inkjet inks
• PFOS-Free
• Photoinitiators-Free
• Phthalate free
• Phthalate – free
• Physically drying
• Plasticizers-Free
• Preservatives-Free
• Primary Aromatic Amines-Free
• Primary colors
• Print ready settings
• Punchable
• radical curing
• Reach SVHC (Substances of Very High Concern) List
• Rotatable printable
• Safe stackability
• Scratch resistance
• Seal resistant
• Sealable
• Shiny
• Silicone free
• Solvent based
• Solvent free
• Solvent resistance
• Suitable for Hyprid printing machines
• Suitable for printing on the packaging side facing away from the food
• Temperature resistance
• Tesa resistant
• Thermoforming
• Thixotropic
• Time, Energy and Space savings
• Transparent
• Two component ink
• Universally applicable
• UV curing
• UV flexo
• UV printability
• Very fast curing
• Very good flow resistance
• Very good solvent release
• very good spreading properties
• Water resistance
• Wear resistance
• Weather resistant
• Wet and dry scrubbable
• Yellowing-free

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Services

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• Color matching services
• HKS
• Pantone
• RAL
• Tailor Made Inks RUCO
• Technical support and Consultancy

Compliances

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• Blue wool scale (DIN 16525)
• Canadian Hazardous Products Act (R.s., c.H-3,s-1.)
• Corresponds to the German Tobacco Ordinance
• Current Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC
• DIN 1230-1 (Robinson test)
• EuPIA Exclusion Policy
• EuPIA Suitability List of Photoinitiators
• European standard on safety of toys EN 71-part 3
• GADSL List
• IKEA IOS MAT0066 Surface coating
• IS 15495 standard
• Low PAH, category 1 according to AfPS GS 2014:01
• Nestlé Guidance Note on Packaging Inks - Version 10-2018
• REACH regulation (SVHC)
• RoHS compliant (2015/863/EU) // (2011/65/EU)
• Sony Green partner
• Swiss Ordinance (SP 817.023.21)
• USP Medical Class VI