The brighter, environmentally-friendly way to create beautiful decorated glassware.
PPG has taken the lid off glass decorating by developing the most colorful inks for glassware and ceramics---and every one is "green."
Glass and ceramic decorators around the world are finding freedom using EcoBrite inks for bottles, containers, tumblers and ceramic mugs. Freedom to choose colors in a rainbow of bright, bold hues. And freedom from heavy metals across the entire color spectrum.
EcoBrite organic inks are easy on the eyes, easy on the environment, easy to use and easy on glass…all of which makes them easy on the bottom line.
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Easy on the Eyes
EcoBrite inks are the industry’s most colorful. They can be created in a spectacular spectrum of shades, even in fluorescent and phosphorescent colors and metallic silvers and golds, without using toxic heavy metals for pigmentation. Every color is better – stronger, brighter and with more opacity.
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- Get their bold, bright hues from a patented epoxy-based formula containing no cadmium, lead, chromium or other heavy metals.
- Enable decorators to comply with environmental regulations, such as Proposition 65 in California and the Toxics in Packaging (CONEG) Legislation being adopted throughout the United States.
- Have an organic formulation suitable for glass recycling – inks are eliminated when recovered glass is melted.
- Are odorless and easy and safe to handle, requiring no special procedures.
- Significantly reduce unwanted air emissions and waste decorators get when using traditional ceramic inks – they cure at much lower temperatures [175-185°C (350-365°F)] and have higher useful-solids content for efficient melting and excellent glass adhesion.
- offer decorators freedom to focus on their business and their customers instead of having to complete environmental compliance forms and manage hazardous waste removal.
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Easy to Use
Decorators are finding how easy it is to switch to EcoBrite inks, which are being printed commercially on high-speed machines around the world in two forms:
- Solid thermoplastic ink comes ready to use as a one-component dry solid and does not require a catalyst or mixing. Once melted, it flows readily through standard printing screens in a production environment, with excellent stability on hot screens and the ability to support normal printing speeds.
- Paste ink comes ready to use as a viscous liquid, or “cold color.” The paste ink has excellent flow on the screen to provide a high-definition print image, and it provides excellent gloss and brilliant color clarity.
EcoBrite inks offer printability for large areas, fine detail, and multi-color or color-on-color applications. Once cured, they have superior adhesion and durability, maintaining color and gloss even after 30 cycles or more of hot caustic washing, but printing mistakes are still easy to correct – rejected pieces can be easily recovered and reprinted.
Easy on Glass
EcoBrite inks form a chemical bond on the glass surface that does not change the structural integrity of the glass, so bottle bursting strength is preserved. Thinner glass can be used with EcoBrite inks than with traditional ceramic inks because the ink is fired at lower temperatures that maintain rather than weaken the glass structure. Also, cured EcoBrite inks are raised on the glass surface for attractive depth of decoration and desirable tactile sensation
 Compared with ceramic ink systems, EcoBrite inks …
- Require less energy and less ink to achieve the same aesthetics.
- Offer lower density and better hiding and coverage, enabling the decoration of at least twice as many pieces using the same amount of ink by weight.
- Do not compromise bottle bursting strength, enabling decorators to create thinner, lighter-weight glass containers that help reduce their material and shipping costs.
- Are environmentally friendly, eliminating the need for the hazardous waste management that heavy metal-containing ceramic inks require.
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PPG makes it easy to switch to EcoBrite inks.
Our ink specialists work with decorating teams to match ceramic or other organic ink colors, or to create custom colors for new designs. And our quality-assurance and evaluation team tests new color formulations in our commercially equipped printing laboratory to ensure optimum performance in most printing operations before approving and releasing them into production.
Interested in EcoBrite inks?
Contact us for further information on the benefits and unique performance advantages of using EcoBrite inks. Send your requests to: EcoBrite@ppg.com