Safe food-grade inks are
the need of the day
Micro-Huber brings Gecko inks to India
Amit Ray, CEO, Uflex; Ashwani Bhardwaj, Managing Director, Micro Inks
& Member of the Management Board, Huber Group with Ursula Borgmann,
global CEO, Huber Group; Heiner Ringer, Chairman, Micro Inks and Heiner
Klokkers, Member of the Management Board, Huber Group.
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At twin events held in Mumbai and
Delhi NCR recently, Micro Inks-
Huber Group launched the Gecko
line of flexible packaging inks in India.
Gecko (already well accepted products
in Europe) is a unique modular ink
system allowing to cover a multitude of
applications with minimum of products and
components. It is specifically designed to
comply with today’s high demands for food
packaging safety. The core of the Gecko
product range is the easy-to-use modular
mixing system
allowing to formulate the
various inks series from the Gecko Base
concentrate range.
RY Kamat, director - sales & marketing,
Micro Inks, welcomed senior management
team from Huber Group Germany who
came all the way to share their European
opinion on the inks used in food packaging
(gravure/flexo). He went on to say that
Huber Group has completed 250 years
of existence and is one of the top six
global companies.
“Micro Inks has been in the ink business
for the past three decades and started their
liquid ink division in 1996. Packaging is
a strong link between the consumer and
brand. We are launching Gecko range of
inks for safe food packaging, which are
free from hazardous and toxic chemicals
like toluene and ketone. These are low
migration inks and converters as well as
print buyers in India have been looking for
such solutions,” he stated
In the meanwhile,
Ashwani Bhardwaj,
managing director at
Micro Inks, stressed
on the importance of
packaging solutions
that are safe for the
consumers. “In the last
15-20 years, there has
been a much greater
awareness to food
safety worldwide. As
ink manufacturers,
we fully understand
our responsibility to
deliver safe solutions,”
he said. Ashwani also
outlined the heart of
Gecko solutions, which
included critical raw material selection
process, stringent good manufacturing
practices (GMP) measures, and
full compliance to well laid down regulatory
framework.
Heiner Klokkers, member of the
Management Board of Huber Group
shared the packaging trends in Europe,
where flexible packaging accounts for more
than 20 percent share. Similarly, Dr Lutz,
director of technology - Liquid Inks, Huber
Deutschland and Paul Dunmore from Huber
Italia shared their views on food safety,
regulations and quality parameters. Paul
said shared that Huber believes consumer
protection is prime, and there has to
be no change in taste, smell or visual
properties. Also, there should be
no change to composition of food and no
contamination from package.
At the occasion, key converter Amit Ray,
CEO, UFLEX and key print buyer Varun
Bannerjee, head of packaging – Nestle,
shared the importance and need of safe
grade food packaging solutions.
The event was attended by top notch
officials from Huber, packaging printers
and local print buyers.
