Growing solvent prices, rising fire hazards at workplace, and increased VOC content in the conventional solvent-based inks, coatings and adhesives are the main reasons behind the shifting the dominance towards water-based products in the flexible packaging market segment. As organic solvent contents are reduced to a minimum – it’s becoming better for workers health and overall solvent retention in the food packaging is getting reduced.
Water-based technology covers a broad variety of different application areas with specific ink series. Water-based systems are printed mainly in the flexo and gravure processes. Currently, Yansefu team has designed suitable water-based reverse ink series for polyester substrates as well as water-based surface inks for major absorbent substrates such as on metallized paper, chromo art paper and paper foils. Some substrates to be coated with our water-based primers before printing.
In addition, Yansefu’s inventive water-based adhesives for multitude of substrates as well as heat-seal lacquers are gaining market potential day by day.
Another important product segment in the water-based domain is various types of effect coatings such as to get tailor-made gloss and matt effects, soft-touch, sand-touch kind of special properties. Furthermore, this is also suitable for offset printing segment.