Although times are rough and the whole industry is facing huge challenges, it is also a time for new opportunities. Day in, day out, Q.I. Press Controls finds ways to create more intelligent, more effective, and more fruitful ways to improve press control and thus its performance, embedded with a higher sustainability factor.
Launch of first-ever white ink for sheetfed digital presses opens new possibilities
Xaar, the leading independent manufacturer of industrial inkjet printheads, is very pleased to announce today that Ferro is joining the Xaar Approved Ink Partner Scheme. Ferro, a major global supplier of technology-based performance materials for manufacturers, is a worldwide leader of frits, glazes, pigments and inks to the ceramic tile decoration market.
BASF will be raising prices for different plastics in its styrenic copolymer product range in Europe and in all regions supplied from Europe, effective April 1, 2010, or as contracts allow.
Strengthening its position as a sustainability leader in the inks, pigments and coatings industry for its customers, five of Sun Chemicals commercial conventional sheetfed inks have earned the highest average index ratings in the National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers (NAPIM) bio-renewable content (BRC) certification program to date.
Effective April 1, 2010, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase prices in Europe, Africa and Western Asia for styrene-acrylic and straight-acrylic dispersions by 180 per metric ton, for styrene-butadiene dispersions by 180 per metric ton and for resins and redispersible polymer powders by 250 per metric ton.
Ryno Rollers has announced that Graphic Printing Roller Ltd., with plants in Markham, Ontario, and St. Leonard, Quebec, is the latest company licensed to produce rollers using Ryno roller compounds.
