The ink industry is about to bid farewell to the era of benzene-soluble inks
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The benzene-soluble ink that has occupied the leading position in food soft packaging for many years is about to become a history. The domestic ink industry will be in line with the international standards, completely replacing traditional inks with environmentally friendly, green and healthy new products.
From June 1st, the Food Safety Law and the Sanitary Standards for the Use of Additives for Food Containers and Packaging Materials were officially implemented. The latter clearly stipulated that benzene is a banned substance and should not be used for food packaging, which will make benzene as the main food. The era of packaging ink solvents has completely ended. At present, ink companies are ready, including New Oriental inks, Bauhinia inks, Shengweike inks, permanent inks, and Central Asian inks, all of which have launched their own environmentally friendly products, of which New Oriental inks are currently produced. Environmentally friendly products have accounted for more than 60% of total production, and the proportion is expected to increase to 90% during the year.
For a long time, due to the excellent printability and low cost of benzene-soluble inks, food packaging companies have a special liking for ink selection, and various green products such as alcohol-soluble inks and water-based inks have been used. Nobody cares. In the final analysis, companies are pursuing profits. According to Fan Jiayu, president of New Oriental Ink, products that can help customers reduce costs are good products. To this end, New Oriental Ink has invested heavily in research and development, and after numerous experiments, it has finally developed a new generation of alcohol-based plastic surface printing inks, which not only achieves or even partially surpasses traditional chlorinated polypropylene inks in printing effects. And the overall cost is still reduced. After the trial of printing companies, the response was strong, and the situation quickly opened up in the market, so that more entrepreneurs who love green packaging saw the dawn.
The Hygienic Standard for the Use of Additives in Food Containers and Packaging Materials is a mandatory standard. For the majority of ink companies, the significance of this standard is extraordinary. First, the new standard excludes toluene from the list of approved additives, the meaning of which is self-evident. Secondly, there are only 959 kinds of additives listed in the new standard, and there are more than 5,000 kinds of raw materials currently used for ink production. Among them, there are many carcinogens, mutagens and toxic substances that have been banned internationally. . How to adjust production methods to meet new standards will be a problem for all ink manufacturers. But in any case, it is a foregone conclusion that the food packaging inks say goodbye to the toluene era.