Al Berna, Inksolutions LLC06.09.09
There has been a growing trend in the ink industry for “green” inks. Currently this is such a hot topic that nobody will mistake this for phthalo green ink; I am referring to inks that are better for the environment.
While this trend has been going on for quite a long time, the interest in producing a “green” ink is as keen now (maybe keener) as it was during the soybean sticker inks of the mid ’90s.
According to NAPIM’s Executive Summary currently on its website,www.napim.org, “Printing with inks formulated with soybean oils as a replacement for petroleum-based oils is one of a number of approaches aimed at reducing the environmental impact of printed products. Generally, this objective can be accomplished by reducing air pollutant emissions (volatile organic compounds or VOCs), using raw materials based on renewable resources and minimizing the impact of the entire life cycle of the ink from the production of the raw ma
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