Flexcon introduces low migration coating for pharma market
Flexcon has developed a top coat, TC282, to enhance the performance of low migration UV curable inks. The TC282 top coat has been specifically designed for the pharmaceutical packaging market. It was developed over the course of a year to assist label converters in Europe adhere to the REACH legislation intended to protect consumers from substances of very high concern (SVHC).
The company's international marketing and application development director, Lee Macnamara, explained, 'I feel like we are ahead of the game with this product launch. We were finding issues with ink adhesion of low migration UV curable inks on our pharmaceutical labeling materials and the TC282 top coat solves this problem for our customers.'
The label material supplier also introduced a new security material with a purple break coat mini void made of PE film. Unlike PP and PET films, the PE construction offers stretchability, which is beneficial for conformable surfaces. The break coat technology is an embedded layer in the film that initiates easily to reveal a breach, but leaves the surface of the label immediately dry to touch.
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