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Flint Group Announces FlexiStar Confectionery

Next generation of solvent-based packaging inks for the North American flexo confectionery market

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Flint Group has launched FlexiStar Confectionery, which provides excellent printability, superior adhesion and resistance properties with and without a cold seal release overprint lacquer. This ink system is designed for surface and reverse print applications.

“Confectionery package printing is all about shelf appeal and constant innovation at a competitive price. FlexiStar Confectionery is based on these principles,” said Grant Shouldice, product director film and foil, Packaging and Narrow Web North America.

The confectionary printing market requires inks that print clean and clear, are easy to use and come with a competitive price point. FlexiStar Confectionary combines the key attributes required by this market.

FlexiStar Confectionary provides excellent adhesion to a wide range of substrates. Flint Group realizes that printers in this segment are investigating many new film technologies; FlexiStar Confectionery has been successfully tested on a wide range of new and existing films with multiple cold seal release lacquers and cohesives.

“With FlexiStar Confectionery, Flint Group delivers exceptional quality and performance properties to the confectionery packaging segment,” Mr. Shouldice concluded.

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