In July 2026, Flint Group Packaging Solutions plans to showcase digital print solutions, inks, and coatings at LOUPE Americas 2026. The new digital print solution comes under the Narrow Web and Flint Group Digital Xeikon business section.
The company plans to display products such as EkoCure Dual Cure Inks, Hydrokett & Hydrofilm water-based ink systems, Flexocure LEAP, new three engines, digital portfolio, FlintLink, and IDERA solution.
EkoCure Dual Cure Inks: The company is going to showcase this product on Stand 5821. The ink is compatible with UV LED systems and traditional UV systems. The ink offers flexibility during the press configurations. The ink maintains consistent print performance.
Flexocure LEAP: It is manufactured on a new resin platform and is a type of UV conventional ink. It supports future regulatory compliance and lowers the photoinitiator migration risk.
Hydrokett and Hydrofilm Water-Based Ink: The Flint’s Narrow Web Business section will showcase this new product. The new ink is developed for film applications and narrow-web paper. The new ink improves visual appeal and functional performance.
The company is displaying a new engine's live demonstration. The new engines include Ecolyne, TX500, and PX3300 HD.
TX500: The new engine manufactures a durable label and features TITON dry toner technology. The engine does not require additional lamination steps. The new engine offers food-safe labels.
PX3300 HD: The new engine is manufactured with PantherCure UV inks and a 1200 dpi UV inkjet platform. It prints using CMYK+White at a speed of 70 m/min.
Ecolyne: It is a digital label press that provides low-risk entry into the label market. It is a subscription-based press that helps converters and commercial printers.
The company’s Digital Xeikon expert will discuss the IDERA solution. This solution is a single-pass UV inkjet platform and is designed for corrugated post-print. The company will provide a printed sample to its visitors.
The UV inkjet and dry toner solution is part of the company’s digital portfolio. The new digital solution helps in various volumes, entry-level production, diverse applications, high-volume label printing, and diverse substrates. The company offers a unique combination of solutions with TITON technology.
The company is also displaying FlintLink, which helps in offering 24/7 access to business documentation, troubleshooting, securing the customer portal, providing remote technical support, and order management.
The events will showcase the VIVO colour solution. It helps in accurate color matching and is a digital color management platform. It simplifies the reuse of the ink by integrating press return functionality. VIVO helps in lowering the cost of ink inventory, smarter workflows, and enhancing operational efficiency.
The event focuses on understanding the goals of the customer and connecting with customers. The event is held from 15 to 17 September 2026 in Chicago. The event was held at Stand 5821.
The digital print solutions, inks, and coatings are playing a major role in the packaging industry. These technologies offer on-demand production, variable data printing, eco-friendly formulations, consumer safety, tooling elimination, personalization, and counterfeit protection. These technologies support agile inventory management and add interactive consumer touchpoints in connected packaging.
The challenges, such as high minimum order quantities, consumer disengagement, stricter pharma safety, recycling bottlenecks, mechanical durability, and supply chain invisibility, are solved using digital print solutions. The inks & coatings offer benefits like vibrant visuals, mono-material enablement, low emissions, high protection, barrier coatings, compostability, and worker safety.
The digital print solutions offer benefits like cost-effective short-run production, faster turnaround times, brand protection, unmatched customization, and supply chain efficiency. It is widely used in shrink sleeves, flexible packaging, corrugated board, glass bottles, and labels.
The packaging inks and coatings market is forecasted to expand from USD 5.02 billion in 2026 to USD 7.89 billion by 2035, growing at a CAGR of 5.15% from 2026 to 2035.
According to Towards Packaging, inks and coatings are revolutionizing the packaging industry by improving brand differentiation. The inks and coatings create a positive impact by providing sustainability, product safety, mono-material enablement, high functionality, circular economy, and excellent brand value.
Ongoing challenges like plastic reduction, food contact safety, packaging durability, toxic chemical elimination, and lower shelf life are tackled using inks and coatings. The recent advancements, like water-based barrier coatings, energy-efficient curing, PFAS-free formulations, recycling-friendly inks, and smart printing inks, help to resolve ongoing packaging industry challenges.
The packaging coatings market is forecasted to expand from USD 5.75 billion in 2026 to USD 8.73 billion by 2035, growing at a CAGR of 4.75% from 2026 to 2035.
According to Towards Packaging, packaging coatings are transforming the packaging industry by providing contamination prevention and improving structural durability. Packaging coating offers benefits like physical protection, enhanced aesthetics, product preservation, oil resistance, and recyclability. They are widely used in vapor control, light barriers, tactile effects, and mono-material development applications.
The ongoing advancements in the packaging coating industry are PFAS-free coatings, PVC-free coatings, intelligent smart coatings, air knife technology, UV curable coating, anti-microbial coating, and color-changing coating supports in enhancing the functionality of coatings.
The company’s headquarters is located in Jersey, and they operate 80 sites. The company is a producer of coatings, digital printing equipment, printing inks, and pressroom chemicals. The company’s core segments include flexible packaging, narrow web, Xeikon, paper & board, and sheetfed offset. The company focuses on the digital footprint expansion. The company is manufacturing sustainable packaging solutions and focuses on the advancements of dual-cure inks. The company is developing energy-reduction technologies.
24 July 2026
24 July 2026
24 July 2026
24 July 2026