Toyo Ink Group Introduces Range of Laminating Adhesives for Food Packaging

Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. (President and Representative Director: Katsumi Yamazaki; Chuo-ku, Tokyo) and Toyo-Morton, Ltd. (President and Representative Director: Motohiko Kashioka; Chuo-ku, Tokyo) have jointly launched a new series of gravure inks and laminating adhesives for the food packaging market.

In recent years, ensuring food safety and hygiene has become a priority topic as the food package printing industry becomes increasingly aware of environmental health and food safety issues, shifting away from conventional toluene-based gravure inks to toluene-free products.

Responding to customers appeal for improvements in the usability of environmentally conscious products, the Toyo Ink Group newly developed the LIOALPHA line of toluene-free and MEK-free lamination inks, solvent-free laminating adhesives and dry laminating adhesives that expand application capacity.

Through a combination of these new products, package converters can now achieve greater production efficiency and work productivity resulting from reduced materials loss, downtime and environmental burden. Consumers also benefit from the availability of highly safe and sanitary packaged goods.

As of now the following new product series are sold in the Japan market. The Toyo Ink Group plans to expand distribution of these products in countries throughout Asia and other regions of the world.

LIOALPHA Series of Multi-Purpose High-Functional Lamination Gravure Inks

Features:

Laminating Adhesive Includes; TOMOFLEX TM-570 Ester-Type Multi-Purpose Laminating Adhesive, ECOAD EA-N373 Non-Solvent Laminating Adhesive, TOMOFLEX EL-541 Urethane-Type AC Agent.

About Toyo Ink Group

The business activities of the Toyo Ink Group are classified into four segments: the Printing and Information Business, Packaging Business, Polymers and Coatings Business, and Color and Functional Materials Business. While Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. acts as a core operating company, individual companies in the Toyo Ink Group engage in the Printing and Information Business and Packaging Business. The Polymers and Coatings Business and Color and Functional Materials Business are operated by Group companies with Toyochem Co., Ltd. as the central operating company.