New breakthroughs and new trends in in-mold label innovation

Labeling is a very important part of IML technology application, and the development of IML technology is in full swing thanks to the advancement of label technology. In order to show the new changes in the current in-mold label, in this issue we invited three senior in-mold label industry representatives to ask them to briefly introduce new breakthroughs and new trends in the label.

Australia's Asia Pacific Co., Ltd. Shanghai Representative Office in Greater China Executive Sales Zhong Hongguang

Fully biodegradable in-mold labels and high-gloss metal in-mold labels are the latest breakthroughs in in-mold label material technology in recent years. The company's biodegradable internal standard (under the NATIVIA brand) and biodegradable pellet PLA are injection molded to produce a fully biodegradable plastic container. At this year's CHINAPLAS 2016, we teamed up with Demag, Belgium Verstraete, and US NatureWorks to demonstrate the biodegradable IML container manufacturing process.

High-gloss metal in-mold labels are targeted at high-end or first-line brands to help them shape the differentiation of high-end quality. At present, we have successfully helped some lubricant brands to upgrade their product packaging, and try to replace the metal cans that cause extrusion deformation during transportation and distribution.

In addition, the application of in-mold label materials presents some obvious trends: in order to reduce the packaging cost without changing the appearance of the molded product, the label thickness becomes thinner and thinner, such as the "low density" or "ultra low density" series. Film; in-mold label pays more attention to quality and differentiation, digital The use of printed labels and touch-sensitive film labels is beginning to emerge, and more and more composite labels are being replaced with surface-print labels; injection molding companies are paying more attention to long-term stability and output efficiency (low waste rate) of injection molding rather than simply reducing material costs. At the same time, it is developing towards a thin-walled multi-cavity.