Forego waste, but not gloss and glamour
Revolutions are also the core business of ACTEGA Metal Print,
a startup within the ALTANA Group. The high-tech engineers based
in Lehrte near Hannover are now launching a novel technology
that achieves decorative metallic effects with significantly less material,
costs, and production time than was required in previously
common processes. You can’t tell by looking at the labels
in the supermarket, but what shines and shimmers on the
supermarket shelves is first applied to large sections of foil in conventional
manufacturing processes. Only a fraction of it is later
found on wine bottles, chocolate boxes, and cosmetics. The rest
01 Less waste with metallized motifs thanks to EcoLeaf
technology 02 An application engineer checks print samples
03 Metallic effects enhance a wide range of products
04 A high-performance, softer, and more flexible seal for
crown caps saves steel
is thrown away with the foil without ever leaving the produc-
tion hall. Resource efficiency is different and has a name: EcoLeaf.
This technology uses the exact amount of metallic pigment
needed to produce the metallized motif, thus making the foils
superfluous. The waste that used to be generated in the process
is a thing of the past. Thanks to the effect pigment specialists
at ECKART, nobody has to do without gloss and glamour
anyway.
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