TEGO® Res 1100 – Enabling Circularity for Packaging
Modern packaging needs to fulfill many tasks to serve all of us with well protected goods. Printing inks and coatings play a vital role to inform, protect and allow easy logistics of packed goods. When it comes to recycling, some components of printing inks deteriorate the quality of the obtained recyclates.
Therefore, Evonik Coating Additives has developed TEGO® Res 1100 – a co-binder allowing deinking in an easy, energy and resource-efficient process while keeping the needed technical performance of packaging inks unchanged.
Only a small addition of TEGO® Res 1100 in the ink is needed to allow easy and complete deinking leading to high quality recyclates enabling true circularity at scale.
TEGO® Res 1100 Enables Deinking of Plastic Packaging Waste
TEGO® Res 1100 is a free-flowing, non dusting methacrylate co-polymer, which can be easily incorporated into solventborne inks. Due to broad compatibility with various binders and excellent solubility in common solvents ranging from alcohols to esters it’s easy to formulate. Of course an excellent food contact status is given.
Benefits of TEGO® Res 1100
- Enables deinking of flexible packaging without a major technology change
- Allows for deinking at low temperatures
- Accelerates deinking and improves recyclate quality
- Broad solubility and compatibility, ink properties remain unchanged
- Broad food contact compliance
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Why Choose TEGO® Res 1100?
TEGO® Res 1100 boosts circularity: It increases the deinking speed of solventborne packaging inks on films significantly – independent of the used deinking method. Regardless if using only caustic soda at low temperatures or according to DIN SPEC 19496 the deinking speed is increased up to 10 times without compromising any ink property, such as adhesion, heat seal resistance, wet crinkle resistance, color strength, viscosity or printability.