Staffordshire-based Weedon PSC claims to be the country's first manufacturer of corrugated packaging to use predominantly natural printing inks.
The company will use Earthinks, a new type of environmentally friendly, water based flexographic and screen printing ink made from up to 80% natural materials. Earthinks were developed by Shropshire-based Solar Inks, and have been developed from sustainable and non-polluting resources including soy, starch, sugars, dextrin, tree resin, cellulose and other polysaccharides. Natural waxes are used…
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