DG press partners with Siegwerk to develop barrier coatings

DG press has partnered with ink and coatings specialist Siegwerk for an innovative project aiming to develop seamless technologies for barrier coatings for mono-material packaging applications.

The main objective of the project is to showcase the efficient production of mono-material food packaging with an oxygen barrier. The required barrier properties are provided by the Cirkit OxyBar BC 1582 coating and Heatguard 2K overprint varnish from Siegwerk and are applied in one pass, in-line with printing and varnishing.

With this project, DG press and its partners demonstrate that the modularly designed hybrid web offset printing presses can produce functional mono-material packaging structures in one pass with at least one functional barrier coating in-line.