From:Packaging News

Videojet Technologies has launched a UV fluorescing ink designed to deliver codes for high end cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and other consumer goods.

Packages, bottles and certain products may require discrete codes and brand information that can be tracked through the supply chain.

Fluorescing UV ink is only visible under UV lighting, and can be an unobtrusive solution for markets that require product traceability.

The new ink is colourless in normal light and fluoresces blue under a black light.
With its MEK solvent base, the ink offers very good adhesion to a variety of substrates including coated cartons or glossy labels, vial caps and closures, and dark substrates here a bar code is needed.

Heidi Wright, business unit manager, TIJ & TTO, at Videojet, explains: “This ink was initially developed for the pharmaceutical market; however, it is also suited to a variety of other applications including retort processed food containers and cosmetic packaging.”