Flint Ink Corp.: Inks for shrink sleeves

Flint Group’s PluriTech Shrink-U universal gravure shrink sleeve ink system provides excellent adhesion to a wide range of substrates, and provides zero blocking, zero ink pick, and no flex-crack.

Flint Ink Corp.
Jun 13th, 2012

This system can replace the use of several inks, reducing inventories and production complexity.  Flint recently introduced FlexiTech Shrink-U for the flexo shrink sleeve market segment.

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