Gravure
INX International’s gravure ink portfolio includes high-performance water-based and solvent-based inks and coatings for a wide range of print applications. The performance and value of our gravure products is complemented by unmatched systems and technical support enabling our customers to succeed.
SOLVENT-BASED INKS
Solvent-based Gravure Inks
INX offers a complete line of solvent-based gravure printing inks to cover the needs of the surface print packaging market. Our high-performance inks are formulated for a variety of substrates to improve printability, increase efficiencies and lower applied costs. Visit our product applications page to find a product to fit your needs.
Genesis™ Washable Ink
A sustainable, solvent-based, shrink ink for both gravure and flexographic printing that is de-inkable from cPET films and floatable with roll-fed OPP labels in the recycling process. Genesis is recognized by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) for meeting or exceeding the group’s strict testing protocol for washable and recyclable PET shrink sleeve applications.
WATER-BASED INKS
Water-based Gravure Inks
INX offers a complete line of solvent-based gravure printing inks to cover the needs of the surface print packaging market. Our high-performance inks are formulated for a variety of substrates to improve printability, increase efficiencies, and lower applied costs. Visit our product applications page to find a product to fit your needs.
NATURAL-BASED INKS
INXhrc® Natural Based Inks
INXhrc natural-based inks are formulated to replace petrochemically derived ingredients with clean, renewable, and sustainable ingredients without sacrificing machine, processing, and end-use product performance. Brand owners and printers benefit from reduced regulatory risk and measurable, reportable CO2 savings.
RotoFlex™ HRC Natural-based Inks
Rotoflex HRC is a solvent based ink system designed for surface printing on paper and PE coated substrates. It is formulated to replace—to the greatest extent possible—petro-chemically derived materials with renewable naturally occurring ingredients without sacrificing machine, processing, and end use product performance.
COLOR DISPERSIONS
RotoFlex™ G Solvent-based Flexographic and Gravure Dispersions
These inks are highly pigmented color concentrates suitable to be let down into a full range of inks for diverse applications from surface printing to lamination on a variety of substrates. Available in a wide array of colors including barium-free, fade resistant, heat resistant, product resistant, opaque and transparent, RotoFlex G provides absolute maximum versatility and value in dispenser applications providing the printer with complete control over inventory and process needs. Whether you are printing gravure, flexographic, or both, RotoFlex G is the dispersion of choice.
LOW MIGRATION PACKAGING INKS AND COATINGS
Low Migration Packaging Inks and Coatings
With research and development, product stewardship and quality, all working together, INX provides assurance that our sensitive application packaging inks are of the highest quality and safe for their intended use. Our low migration inks and coatings are designed to meet global food packaging requirements.
COATINGS
INXKote® Water and ProCure™ Energy Curable Coatings
INX inks and coatings are designed to work hand-in-glove with each other right from the start by product development specialists who know printer and package converter operations firsthand. The result is better performance on-press with inks and in- or off-line with coatings.
Our INXKote and ProCure product line includes aqueous, UV, EB and specialty coatings as well as overprint varnishes are all manufactured in our state-of-art Homewood, Illinois and Edwardsville, Kansas facilities.
