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Publication Gravure Faces Challenges in Europe

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When the government began to put stricter environmental goals for printers in place, there was a ripple effect throughout the supply chain. Printers began to examine alternate technologies in order to eliminate the solvent-based systems that give off volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to reduce and/or eliminate. For ink formulators, one possibility was to create water-based systems, which would accomplish the goal of reducing VOCs. T...

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