Design of a new polyester acrulate for the formulation of UV/EB flexographic and lithographic inks

UV technology is continually evolving. The UV market hasn’t stopped growing from the early 60s up to now and since 2000, volumes keep increasing and have almost doubled to reach approximately 80.000 t in 2007. UV technology is now widely used in a variety of applications covering industrial-, wood coatings as well as printing inks and varnishes which represent almost 20% of the volumes. Within the graphic arts industry, the printing inks takes up 45% of the market, the two third being flexographic and offset inks.