Homepage // News Center // Wilflex™ Revive™ Bio Plastisol Inks from Avient Offer Sustainable Solutions for Screen Printing Wilflex Revive inks are created with 50-59% bio-derived content, helping screen printers achieve their sustainability goals while offering the same easy printing experience as a typical plastisol. Wilflex Revive bio plastisol inks will be available from Wilflex distributors beginning March 2024.

Homepage // News Center // New Rutland™ Evolve™ Bio Plastisol™ Inks from Avient Feature Over 50% Bio-Derived Content for Sustainable Screen Printing Created with 56-59% bio-derived content and tested to ASTM D6866, Rutland Evolve Bio Plastisol Inks can reduce screen printers’ reliance on fossil fuel-based inks while seamlessly introducing more sustainable practices to plastisol screen printing shops. Rutland Evolve Bio Plastisol Inks are a great example of this – they allow screen printers to incorporate bio-derived inks that maintain the on-press performance Rutland is known for.”  

Color is reflective light. Light travels into the color and reflects back to our eye the base and color of the sample we are viewing. When the same color is printed on a white ink base, the color is not absorbed and the white reflects through as well.

It uses the inks to create color by reflecting some wavelengths of light while absorbing others. The print will have a de-saturation of color because the transparent ink allows an overwhelming amount of white light to reflect back through it. This hinders the ability of the white base to control the luminosity and the color blending between hues, and is caused by the over-saturation of color through the lack of white or black influences reflecting through the ink.

CLEVELAND – June 17, 2019 – PolyOne’s Specialty Inks group today launched Libra™ silicone ink, the latest offering within its new Zodiac™ brand collection of eco-conscious screen-printing inks. Special-effect reflective, metallic and gel inks may be used in conjunction with other Libra silicone inks to enhance prints and differentiate designs PHOTO CAPTION: PolyOne Specialty Inks collection of Zodiac Libra silicone inks are designed to meet sustainability and performance demands.

SPECIALTY INKS OVERVIEW PolyOne Specialty Inks is a leading global manufacturer of screen printing inks for the textile industry and of specialty inks for industrial applications. SOME OF OUR FIRSTS • Development of the industry’s first plastisol color mixing system for screen printing ink • Introduction of the first automated ink dispensing equipment OUR SPECIALTY INKS • Broadest range of specialty screen printing inks, including: non-phthalate PVC plastisol, water-based, silicone, and non-PVC plastisol • Ink room solutions including inventory management software • Strong expertise in R&D and product development • Demonstrated technical service and color matching capabilities • Highly efficient manufacturing operations • Global manufacturing footprint and customer reach OUR BRANDS • Wilflex is a leading brand of specialty screen printing inks with a focus on total ink-room management, providing the most efficient, cost-effective environment possible • Rutland is a leading brand of specialty screen printing inks for the textile industry with a strong commitment to making the screen printing process easier, more attractive and more profitable for customers • Union Ink is a brand dedicated to providing the broadest range of innovative and inspired screen printing inks with the highest opacity mixing systems in the market • Printop is a leading brand of textile screen printing inks in Latin America including plastisols, water-based, and discharge inks • QCM is a trusted brand of cost- effective, high quality inks for one of the most recognizable products in the world, the printed t-shirt SPECIALTY INKS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT • Five manufacturing facilities in Kennesaw, Georgia; Pineville, North Carolina; Lima, Peru, Shenzhen, China; and Mumbai, India (JV) • Warehouse and distribution facilities in Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio in the US, Paddock Wood and Widnes, U.K., and Singapore • Global presence of distributors located in over 60 countries Copyright © 2018, PolyOne Corporation. POLYONE MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, either with respect to the information or products reflected by the information.

When you think about the ink you use on a regular basis, what is it about the ink that you like? As an ink manufacturer, Avient develops inks based on “performance factors.” Add shimmer and glitter using the same parameters as conventional vinyl plastisol inks

Ink Mixing Software can also help inventory control by estimating ink usage. There are three basic types of mixing systems that dominate the current plastisol market: Finished ink

Rutland plastisol white inks – New and innovative white inks offering excellent opacity, superior fiber mat-down and outstanding hand for the best performance on today’s fashion forward garments Union ATHP – A system of highly opaque and low-bleed athletic high-performance plastisol inks for polyester fabrics EDITORS: For a high-resolution image, please click here: PolyOne Specialty Inks

Unlike water-based inks, plastisol-based EPIC Rio ink does not dry in screens during production, and can also be left in screens overnight, saving printers’ time on clean-up and set-up during shift changes. About Wilflex PolyOne Wilflex Inks are more than just textile inks. Wilflex continued to make history twenty years later, when it provided design freedom allowing hundreds of color options with the introduction of the first plastisol mixing system.