01.22.24
Avient Corporation announced its Specialty Inks team highlighted new additions and updates to its sustainable inks portfolio at Impressions Expo Long Beach, an annual trade show dedicated to the imprinted and decorated apparel industry. These highlights include inks that can reduce energy use and inks manufactured with biopolymers.
Avient Specialty Inks showcased more than 100 unique prints from Avient Specialty Inks brands, including Wilflex, Rutland, Printop, QCM, Zodiac, MagnaColours, and Union Ink, in addition to live screen printing demonstrations throughout the show for the following:
• New Union Ink UPLC Unimix: a flexible cure mixing system that offers highly opaque, intense colors for large and small screenprinting projects. With 15 intermixable colors, UPLC Unimix allows screen printers to obtain thousands of Pantone colors that cure at temperatures as low as 270°F (132°C).
• New Wilflex Revive inks: plastisol inks created with 50-59% bio-derived content offers an innovative way for screen printers to achieve sustainability goals while offering the same easy printing experience as a typical plastisol ink. Wilflex Revive inks are currently offered in a base and white ink and are compatible with the Wilflex Epic PC Express Color Mixing System. These inks will be printed live at the show and available from Wilflex distributors beginning March 2024.
• Rutland Chill LB LC Poly Mixing Base and Flex PolyWhite: the latest additions to the Rutland Chill flexible cure portfolio launched in December 2023. These inks offer the possibility of an even lower curing temperature, with a cure range from 250°F – 320°F (121°C-160°C), as well as improved bleed resistance. Rutland will also be displaying its reimagined logo.
• MagnaColours MagnaTrans: a water-based heat-transfer system that offers great wash durability, exceptional screen performance, and low-temperature cure additives.
“At Avient Specialty Inks, we are committed to developing and growing our sustainable portfolio of screenprinting inks. The innovations we are showcasing here at Impressions Expo offer our customers water-based, silicone, and non-PVC inks, as well as reduced energy use, and now bio-derived solutions for customers seeking renewable alternatives that won’t compromise on performance while yielding high-quality results,” said Tito Echiburu, GM, Avient Specialty Inks. “Our innovative bio–plastisol Wilflex Revive inks are a great example of our commitment to helping screen printers achieve their sustainability goals.”
Avient Specialty Inks showcased more than 100 unique prints from Avient Specialty Inks brands, including Wilflex, Rutland, Printop, QCM, Zodiac, MagnaColours, and Union Ink, in addition to live screen printing demonstrations throughout the show for the following:
• New Union Ink UPLC Unimix: a flexible cure mixing system that offers highly opaque, intense colors for large and small screenprinting projects. With 15 intermixable colors, UPLC Unimix allows screen printers to obtain thousands of Pantone colors that cure at temperatures as low as 270°F (132°C).
• New Wilflex Revive inks: plastisol inks created with 50-59% bio-derived content offers an innovative way for screen printers to achieve sustainability goals while offering the same easy printing experience as a typical plastisol ink. Wilflex Revive inks are currently offered in a base and white ink and are compatible with the Wilflex Epic PC Express Color Mixing System. These inks will be printed live at the show and available from Wilflex distributors beginning March 2024.
• Rutland Chill LB LC Poly Mixing Base and Flex PolyWhite: the latest additions to the Rutland Chill flexible cure portfolio launched in December 2023. These inks offer the possibility of an even lower curing temperature, with a cure range from 250°F – 320°F (121°C-160°C), as well as improved bleed resistance. Rutland will also be displaying its reimagined logo.
• MagnaColours MagnaTrans: a water-based heat-transfer system that offers great wash durability, exceptional screen performance, and low-temperature cure additives.
“At Avient Specialty Inks, we are committed to developing and growing our sustainable portfolio of screenprinting inks. The innovations we are showcasing here at Impressions Expo offer our customers water-based, silicone, and non-PVC inks, as well as reduced energy use, and now bio-derived solutions for customers seeking renewable alternatives that won’t compromise on performance while yielding high-quality results,” said Tito Echiburu, GM, Avient Specialty Inks. “Our innovative bio–plastisol Wilflex Revive inks are a great example of our commitment to helping screen printers achieve their sustainability goals.”