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ECKART Earns ALTANA Innovation Award for New UV-Curing Inks

Formulation for UV-curing printing inks is based on PVD and alcohol-based silver dollar pigments.

The winning team of the ALTANA Innovation Award together with Dr. Harald Weiß: Top row, from left, Günther Speckner, Dr. Harald Weiß, Dr. Oliver Struck and Günter Dunkl; bottom row, from left, Isabell Gassner and Martina Steinhäußer. (Image credit: ALTANA AG)

The ALTANA Innovation Award is presented annually to recognize the most promising new developments within the specialty chemicals group. This year, the award went to an interdisciplinary team from ALTANA’s ECKART division. The team developed a new high-performance, environmentally friendly formulation for UV-curing printing inks. This formulation incorporates alcohol-based silver dollar pigments along with ultra-thin METALURE effect pigments from ECKART’s latest generation. These pigments ...

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