Rutland specializes in customized formulations for consumer applications and is widely recognized as an industry leader in screen printing inks for the apparel market. 

By engaging with this team early during product design, customers can validate polymer performance with advanced computer-aided simulations and evaluate designs with 3D-printed prototypes.

Printed hydrographics and custom colorants open up a virtually unlimited world of eye-catching color and pattern.

Rod printing available for accurate length reading

And unlike silicone and other denesting agents, Cesa Denesting additives don’t require extra steps in the manufacturing process, maintain the transparency of the sheet, and allow for metallization and printing of the packaging.

Screen Printing Color System Bases: Wilflex™ Epic™

Rapid growth in computing technology has increased demand for higher performing connectors, printed circuit boards, sockets and more.

Printing and Marking Inks

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. Our Wilflex and Rutland brands first emerged in the early 1960s, when screen printing on T-shirts was gaining popularity for self- expression, affording us global recognition, and allowing us to develop products making the screenprinting process easier, more attractive and more profitable. 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.

Consumer demand for more sustainable, eco-friendly products continues to grow along with regulatory pressure.