Page 46 - Plastics News October 2023

BUSINESS NEWS

Sappi And Xeikon Collaborate On Development Of Resource-Saving Packaging
packaging applications. These printing
machines work with different imaging
technologies, open workflow soft-
ware and application-specific consum-
ables and substrates. Each product is
designed with careful planning for the
best application-based substrate and
toner or ink combination to maximize
the output.
With TITON, Xeikon is meeting the
industry’s need for environmentally
friendly and product-safe packag-
ing production: The new toner for-
mulation combines the best features
of toners and UV inks, merging the
food-safe and odourless properties of
igital printing for flexible pack- partner Sappi has been reporting for dry toner with the special resistance
Daging: outstanding print image, some time,is experiencing strong to chemicals and mechanical abrasion
product safety and recyclability growth due to demand for resource- of UV inkjet ink. It also withstands
Sappi, the world’s leading manufac- saving, recyclable and plastic-free al- temperatures of up to 220-260°C –
turer of flexible packaging papers ternatives from end-users as well as essential for ensuring packaging integ-
with integrated barriers and heat- brand owners and converters. rity and product protection. The most
seal capability, has joined forces with TITON meets paper: No addi- important feature of the new technol-
digital printing pioneer Xeikon in a tional varnishing or lamination re- ogy is that, thanks to its special for-
developmental partnership. Sappi’s quired mulation, TITON can be used to print
long-standing expertise in innovative, Frank Jacobs, Market Intel & Sen- directly onto paper-based packaging
paper-based packaging solutions and ior Product Manager at Flint Group materials without the need for addi-
Xeikon’s far-reaching knowledge of Digital, understands that the demands tional varnishing or lamination to pro-
cross-sector digital printing applica- made on inks for direct printing on pa- tect the print.
tions and innovative ink technology per-based materials for applications in Best results with Seal Silk and
ideally complemented each other in the flexible packaging sector, e.g. for AvantGuard S
this collaborative venture. Together, food packaging, such as those offered
the partners took an important step by Sappi, are very high: “Over and Of course, an innovative toner such
towards direct printing on paper- above ensuring a good print result, as TITON works best when the sub-
based materials and perfecting the the inks need to be extremely resist- strate used is just as innovative and
recyclability of the resulting flexible ant throughout the packaging process perfectly matched to the respective
packaging. and insensitive to temperature, e.g. application. With this in mind, it only
made sense to test the groundbreak-
Digital press manufacturer Xeikon, a for heat-sealing. And, especially for ing technology with Sappi products.
division of the Flint Group, has over applications in the food sector, they The company has the most extensive
30 years of expertise in both UV and also need to be odourless, tasteless, portfolio of paper-based packaging
aqueous inkjet and dry toner technol- food-safe and migration-proof.” solutions on the market. Since the be-
ogy. With its latest dry toner innova- Grounded in the principles of quality, ginning of the collaboration at the end
tion, TITON and the Xeikon TX500, flexibility and sustainability, Xeikon of 2022, extensive tests have revealed
the company has set its sights on the designs, develops and delivers web- two qualities in particular that work
paper-based flexible packaging mar- fed digital colour presses for label and especially well with the toner.
ket, which, as Xeikon’s collaboration

46 PLASTICS NEWSASTICS NEWS October 2023
46 PL