Kao Chimigraf will use Fespa Global to launch the Acqua range of inkjet water-based inks based on its eco-conscious Kao Lunajet technology.
Kao Lunajet is a pigment nano-dispersion technology, interface control technology, polymer design technology, and polymer coating technology aimed at reducing VOC emissions.
“Kao Chimigraf is strongly committed to the health and safety of its employees and printing equipment operators, and we are proud to announce that we are the first ink manufacturer whose entire inkjet range of inks is truly compliant with EuPIA Exclusion List,” said Daniel Boronat, inkjet business field manager at Kao Chimigraf.
“Our new Acqua range is a long development achievement of our health commitment, providing less-harmful less VOCs alternatives for the graphic market. Thanks to our expert development skills, we have successfully removed the use of Tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol and some photoinitiators, like certain alpha amino ketones, in all our ink formulations, including LED and UV inks, not only water-based inks, while maintaining high levels of adhesion to many inkjet substrates. These Reprotoxic Cat 1B substances were, until now, the only way to provide adhesion to non-porous surfaces of graphic substrates such as plastics and films, and although they were forbidden by EuPia some years ago, they are still widely in use in the inkjet graphic industry by many of our competitors.”
EuPIA Is the European Printing Ink Association and was founded in 2003 as a division of CEPE, the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists’ Colours Industry. The EuPIA Exclusion List protects the health and safety of workers in the ink and printing industries, as well as the end users of printed materials, applying stricter rules to the manufacture and marketing of inks than the existing legal regulations.
