Flexing Its Power
There are growing opportunities for water-based inkjet to be used in the flexible packaging sector. Dr. Thomas Lehnen looks at the challenges involved.
Year
2021
Company
Siegwerk Druckfarben AG & Co KGaA.
Author
Dr. Thomas Lehnen
Flexible packaging could become one of the largest volume applications for waterbased piezo inkjet printing in the future. Market forces such as shorter job lengths, reduced working capital and shorter time to market are making companies look at new ways of production. In addition, inkjet allows converters and brand owners to differentiate via individualisation, serialisation (e.g. for track & trace), point of sale marketing and leaner total production processes.