Xeikon | 51Sustainability goalsAt the Café event, Xeikon outlined some cylinders after use.ambitious sustainability goals and called Xeikon plans to cut its global for a unifed industry approach to Life carbon footprint (CF) by half over the Cycle Analysis. next two years. CF is calculated from Xeikon is aiming to use 60 percent energy consumption during printing recycled bottle-polymer PET as raw and the amount of ink which is used material for its toner resin production, . Since Xeikon has been using green and as a phase 2 to use bio-sourced electricity since 2009, the energy used materials to reduce the carbon footprint during ink or toner manufacture is not of the toner engines. The company is included. The fnal step is to calculate researching paper toner bottles with how much waste is generated, for removable caps to further reduce the example from toner packaging, drums footprint of digital printing. or printing heads.Xeikon is also looking to switch This Life Cycle Analysis is still very manufacturing of its OPC and fuser much a work in progress, and Xeikon drums to recycled Aluminum, with hopes it can help form the basis of a a campaign to make sure customers measurable industry-wide CF reduction know how to recycle these high value initiative.LED-UV curing station with chill roll on CX500t press“The key to Xeikon’s Titon technology is a high molecular weight resin and a very low concentration of a solid initiator system used to make the dry toner, and an extra inline LED-UV curing stage”Migration resistance and baking cups, offering the converter Titon toners are compliant with all key interesting opportunities for diversifcation.Inkjet developmentsregulations including Nestlé Standard on At the Xeikon Café event, the Printing Inks for Food Packaging, EuPIA Beta installationcompany’s VP marketing Filip Exclusion Policy, Swiss Ordinance and The frst beta installation for the new Weymans announced that the Panther German Ink Ordinance. The toners have CX500t press with Titon toner is at ACM PX3300 inkjet press will only be been successfully migration tested by in Italy. ACM specializes in the production supplied from now on with LED-UV specialized external labs and a Statement of of very small batches of bags, stand-up curing. This will involve a retroft Composition (SoC) is available. pouches and flm trays, all with a high program for all PX3300s and PX3000s It is important to note that the heat degree of personalization – what the in the feld, which Xeikon will organize sealable layer in a pouch or sachet – the converter calls ‘personalized micro batches’. and fnance. PX3300s and PX3000s thermal coating or PE layer – does not act Delivery is guaranteed within two weeks of will no longer need mercury lamps as a migration barrier to normal UV inkjet receiving an order and the minimum order once that program is completed. inks. A functional barrier is only provided size is 50Kg.LED-UV lamps have reduced energy by a laminated foil layer. As a result, a The company runs both a fexo consumption on the presses by 30 foil layer is needed for inks with a high operation, with two Omet 8-color presses percent compared with mercury. migration risk. running low migration LED-UV inks, and a The fagship PX30000 press will At frst glance, the addition of UV digital plant equipped with HP Indigo 25k remain with mercury UV lamps. technology to the Titon toner would and the new Xeikon CX500t press. There is Weymans also confrmed the launch appear to increase the danger of also a solventless lamination facility.of a new entry-level inkjet press, the migration. But Jacobs points out that the ‘We can satisfy all our customers using Label Panther Discovery, which will situation is completely different from Titon toner that it is compliant with food ship with four fxed color stations and curing UV inkjet inks. safety standards and paper recycling sell for around Euro 250k. ‘The amount of photo-initiator needed processes,’ said Massimo Rafaele, general ‘The press is targeted at web-to-print for Titon toner is substantially less than manager of ACM.companies or signage printers in the for UV inkjet, and furthermore it is of a ‘We use the Xeikon Titon toner for our commercial space who can add labels different kind. The toner particle itself paper-based pouches, which is a fast–to their capabilities,’ said Weymans.consists of large molecules (polymers), growing market for us. Especially when Another interesting aspect of the even when it is uncured. Our toners are people order through our e-commerce site, Café demos was haptic printing. This encapsulated in polyester, ensuring the they want recyclable paper.’ is achieved by using the double White migration potential is already extremely Rafaele said the typical breakeven point heads on the PX30000 or by slowing low. For UV inkjet ink it is completely the between fexo and digital is between the PX3300 to 25m/min to double the opposite: the uncured molecules have to 1,500-2,000m.ink volume of the White inkjet head. be small to be jettable at high frequency The haptic pattern – up to 20 microns resulting in a high risk of migration.’The CX500t and Titon toner deep –printed with the White then Other applications for Titon toner could system will be demonstrated live gives a haptic feel to any colors printed include labels that currently require varnish at Labelexpo Europe 2023 on on top.or lamination, lids, paper cups, blister September 11-14Jan - Mar 2023