Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. (President
Katsumi Yamazaki) announced today that it, together with Toyo ADL Co., Ltd.,
Toyo FPP Co., Ltd. and Toyo-Morton Co., Ltd., will introduce package processing
innovations based on the concept “Total Packaging Solutions of the Future” at
this year’s Tokyo Pack. Covering material procurement, manufacture,
distribution, sale, consumption, disposal and recycling, Tokyo Pack is one of
the world’s largest trade exhibitions for packaging-related businesses. The
exhibition will run from October 7 to 11, at the Tokyo Big Sight in Japan.
Located in booth 2-28, East Hall
2, Toyo Ink will showcase a comprehensive array of products and services under
four solutions categories: Color Management, Environment and Safety, High
Performance and Advanced Design, and Global Market Solutions.
Color Management: Due to
increasing globalization of the flexible packaging business, color management
has become an industry hot topic. To address the issue, Toyo Ink will feature
two live presentations on color management support for process printing and
color management solutions on stage at its booth. The company will also hold
live demos of its latest ink dispensing system for the labeling market.
Environment and Safety: Toyo Ink
solutions for flexo printing have been attracting much attention of late. Thus,
the company will showcase a complete product lineup based on its water-based
flexo inks, from prepress to post-printing. In addition, it will introduce case
studies of innovative solutions that combine its water-based inks and
water-based adhesives, and offer a hands-on display of its solvent-free
adhesive mixing device.
Under the High Performance and
Advanced Design category, Toyo Ink will showcase advanced packaging and design
techniques based on a wide array of Toyo Ink high-performance materials, such as
ultraviolet (UV) coatings, overprint varnishes, functional screen inks and
hot-melt adhesives. In addition, the company will introduce a completely new
lineup of UV inks.
Under the Global Market Solutions
category, Toyo Ink will highlight packaging products and services that support
its customers as they increasingly foray into international markets. The
company will introduce packaging ink solutions representative of those the Toyo
Ink Group has launched in markets all over the world. A comprehensive lineup of
food packaging inks compliant with the Swiss Ordinance will also be on display.
Moreover, Yasuyuki Kawada,
manager of Toyo Ink’s Graphic Solution Center, Technical Center, will deliver a
presentation on“Color Management for Package Design” on October 10 at 2:00
p.m., at the seminar room in East Hall 6. Mr. Kawada will provide details on
Toyo Ink’s color management system architecture with the aim of improving color
quality and operational efficiency throughout the package production workflow.
He will also introduce Toyo Ink’s first color management system based on the
International Color Consortium (ICC) profile format.
For more info on Tokyo Pack 2014,
see http://www.tokyo-pack.jp/en/.