Fulfill your packaging ink performance requirements while meeting food-contact regulations with our high-performance Raven carbon blacks.
Birla Carbon offers a wide range of carbon blacks specifically designed to meet the highest performance standards for a variety of packaging inks. Our balanced approach to product design gives formulators a series of products capable of achieving performance targets regardless of printing process, ink chemistry, or substrate type; all while adhering to food contact regulations.
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Areas of Benefits:
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APPEARANCE PROPERTIES
The Raven product portfolio includes a range of surface area and structure combinations to give formulators the flexibility needed to meet strict appearance targets and develop desired opacity on porous and non-porous substrates.
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VISCOSITY
Our range of low structure carbon blacks allow formulators to increase pigment loadings to improve thin film opacity while maintaining desired flow properties during handling and application.
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CLEANLINESS
Carbon blacks from our Ultra product line minimize physical contaminant levels to reduce equipment wear and improve maintenance costs. Where regulatory standards are a concern, Raven products are produced utilizing process technology that reduces polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metal contaminations.
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DISPERSION
Tailored morphologies and surface chemistries in a physical form that best suits your processing equipment provides the best way to achieve the necessary quality of dispersion for the application at the lowest energy cost.
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