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Want To Learn More? Find more information about new ink formulations at www.pffc-online.com. Just pull down our “Print” OneStop and click on “Inks” to find feature articles, columns, and technical reports on ink. Watch for our upcoming What’s New Products Focus on Ink, coming in the March issue. the right processes in place to make sure you’re not creating waste. If you’re not proofing your inks prior to going to press, if you’re not making color adjustments on press, the amount of waste that’s generated is enormous.” Eco Analysis “Converters and inkmakers will continue to be concerned with product safety, compliance, and even paper to support their customers’ sustainability efforts. BCM’s new Eekoflex inks, for Rick Grandke, industry manager for BASF resins, says sustainability “is an integral component” in the company’s decisionmaking process. In fact, the company routinely conducts an “eco-efficiency analysis” that compares different products and processes, taking into account such variables as raw materials, energy consumption, land use, emissions, toxicity, and risk potential. Eco-efficiency analysis is applied to reduce energy and material use in the converting process and to keep emissions as low as possible and produce the most sustainable inks. WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM The bottom line is that do to make the earth’s not natural resources…—Mike Impastato, Flint Group products diminish perspective, it’s one step further than soy or anything else.” “It all derives from what’s happening in the environment,” notes Danny Ramos, Graphic Sciences’ VP, service operations. “People really want to do their part to be good stewards of the environment and try to help with our dependency on foreign oil.” Factors To Consider and the long-term sustainability of their products and processes,” says Grandke. “Therefore, BASF utilizes its eco-efficiency analysis tool to help drive innovations and improve the quality of life.” Companies such as Flint Ink, BCM Inks, and Graphic Sciences, among others, are developing inks comprised of nonpetroleum-based components like soy, tree resin, corn oil, example, are made from paper residue; pigments have no heavy metals and little or no VOCs. “Most of the resins out there are petroleum-based,” explains BCM VP Bob Califf. “We’ve reduced the petroleum that’s in inks and replaced it with pine tree resin. We’re also taking the black lacquer that’s extruded in the pulpmaking process and using that. From a recyclability Robert Waddington, general manager of UVitec Printing Ink, notes ultraviolet inks are sustainable by their nature since “having zero VOCs offers a lot of options for printers who are trying to cut down” on their emissions. However, he says that while there are resins available that come from nonpetroleum sources, such as soy and other vegetable proteins, “they just don’t have the integrity, performance, flexibility, and other attributes of petroleum.” At least not yet. JANUARY 2009 | 31 http://www.pffc-online.com http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM

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PFFC - January 2009 Contents First Glance Calendar of Events From the Editor Web Lines Process Management News Clips Narrow Web & Label Reporter Narrow Web & Label What’s New Products In-Mold Labels Cover: Ink Trends Economic Outlook Brand Security Show Preview What’s New Products Services Directory Classified Marketplace Equipment Buyers & Sellers Advertisers Index Experience Speaks

PFFC - January 2009

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