Soybean ink enables Wei Gao to achieve green printing

With the rise of the global green industry, at present, a new type of environmentally friendly ink--soybean ink has become a rookie in the printing industry. Ningbo Weigao Printing Design Company, a Hong Kong-funded company located in Ningbo Development Zone, is using this new type of environmentally-friendly raw material to realize the rapid development of the company.

The inks used in the printing industry have always been dominated by chemical inks. The solvent is derived from petroleum refining products. It will continuously evaporate the organic compounds that affect people's health and pollute the environment. Ningbo Weigao Printing Design Co., Ltd. mainly manufactures packaging products for well-known European and American companies. For example, British big-name educational toy company ELC and American Free Time are partners of Weigao Paper. "Europe and the United States and other developed countries attach great importance to product packaging, especially to children's toy products contained in the packaging of hazardous substances are strictly limited, the test covers the content of lead and other heavy metals and organic solvent residues in the printing, etc.. The use of new environmentally friendly ink can not only Improving the market competitiveness of companies is also a corporate social responsibility.” Wu Weiqiang, general manager of Ningbo Weigao Printing Design Co., Ltd., said that environmental friendly soy inks have gone through a long period of time from R&D to application and have been acquired in the United States, Japan, and other countries. Large-scale application, but there are not many applications in China.

It is understood that the raw materials of soybean ink use salad oil and other edible oils instead of petroleum refining products as solvents. As a kind of refined vegetable oil, salad oil undergoes a series of rigorous decolorization, deodorization, and removal of free fatty acid and other refining processes, so that the soy ink has very good fluidity and colorability, and is highly transparent, colorful, and not easy to fade. "Prints printed using soy inks do not produce toxic and hazardous substances that pollute the environment when they are used, so they are called environmentally friendly prints." Wu Weiqiang said, "This feature of soy inks is conducive to the recycling of recycled paper. No matter from the perspective of resource utilization or environmental protection, it has unparalleled advantages over traditional inks and has good economic and social benefits."

At the Weigao company's product showroom, the reporter saw a clearly marked "printed with environmentally friendly ink" on a child's furniture box. Wu Weiqiang told reporters: “This mark is not for anyone to use, and the use of this mark must be certified by the American Soybean Association. In the US and Europe, soy ink printing must be marked with this eye-catching mark. This will increase the social impact of environmental protection products."

Affected by the international and domestic markets, Ningbo Weigao's raw materials rose by 20% this year, and workers' wages rose by 12%. However, WeiGao still maintained a rapid growth rate in this dilemma. This year's output has increased by 25% from last year. Wu Weiqiang believes that this is the result of the company's insistence on high-quality products for many years and the pulse of the industry.